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Stefan Goßner

Escalation Engineer for SharePoint (WSS, SPS, MOSS) and MCMS
 
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Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) and absolute LinksDecember 23 2008

The Content Editor Web Part as we ship it in WSS and MOSS always stores URLs as absolute Links. That will cause problems as soon as you are extending a web application to multiple IIS websites or when using Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) to support multiple zones.

In these situations the CEWP will return the wrong URLs.

Maxime has now published an article how this can be corrected through a Control Adapter which allows to control the rendering of the Content Editor Web Part to ensure that it always returns relative links.

First set of KB articles for a new Tool which will is planned to ship with WSS 3.0 SP2December 18 2008

I just noticed that we have published a couple of KB article about a new tool named Pre-Upgrade Checker which will ship with WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2. Based on the information in the KB articles this tool will allow you to verify if your current WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 site structure will be compatible with the next version off WSS and MOSS.

• KB 956201 - The LargeLists rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for WSS 3.0 SP 2 can warn about large lists circuit breaker
• KB 956447 - The ModifiedWorkflowActionsFile rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for WSS 3.0 SP 2 can warn that the default declarative workflow actions file was changed
• KB 956448 - The CustomWorkflowActionsFiles rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker in WSS 3.0 SP 2 can warn that custom .ACTIONS files exist in the farm
• KB 956449 - The ModifiedWebConfigWorkflowAuthorizedTypes rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for WSS 3.0 SP 2 can warn that Web.config files contain modified authorized types for workflow
• KB 956450 - The CustomListView rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker can warn that customized list views that will not be upgraded

The December cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterdayDecember 17 2008

As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month.

Yesterday we released the so called December Cumulative Update.

There is a chance to the way we will release cumulative updates from now on. In the past we shipped localized and global cummulative updates in separate packages. Not with each hotfix build there was a localized patch. So it was a little bit complicate to get your system to the latest patch level as you had to install at least 4 fixes (see Joergs instructions on installing the October CU to understand what I mean).

The December CU is the first fix which will be released in two formats:

1) The same way as before through the following fixes (notice that no localized MOSS fix has been released in December):

• WSS global fix 959644
• WSS localized fix 960314
• MOSS global fix

Article describing the integration of MOSS 2007 with SQL 2008December 16 2008

Microsoft has released documentation describing how to integrate MOSS 2007 with SQL 2008 to enable the usage of SQL 2008 features like

• Database backup compression
• Log stream compression 
• TDE (transparent data encryption)

Integration of SQL Server 2008 and Office SharePoint Server 2007

New whitepaper describing automated setup of MOSS 2007 has been releasedDecember 16 2008

This white paper provides information and guidelines for building scripts that can automate the installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007, the configuration of servers, and the creation and joining of farms. Code samples that you can copy and customize to match your farm and configuration are included.

Here you can find more details.