Mohamed Zaki_s Blog [Sharepoint MVP]

Microsoft released a new hotifx ( MS07-059 ) that addresses a cross site scripting vulnerability in WSS 3.0 plus the DST (Daylight Saving Times) hotfix

 

A new article on MSDN is published recently including a visual how to about how to display custom fields in the Content Query Web Part

 

"You can use the Content Query Web Part to create custom, dynamic views of data that is queried from many sources, and present that data all in one place. You can display custom fields with the Content Query Web Part by setting custom properties and editing the default XSLT transformation. This how-to article demonstrates how to display custom fields in the Content Query Web Part by setting the CommonViewFields property and editing the default XSLT transformation, which is used by the Content Query Web Part to format the rendering of items."

 

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"Microsoft has released a service pack for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. This article includes information about how to obtain the service pack and about how to obtain a list of issues that the service pack fixes. Additionally, this article includes information about the issues that you may experience when you install the service pack and about how to determine whether the service pack is installed"

 

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Hay, Microsoft released a newer version of the MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 SDKs, and one of the new stuff in these SDKs is the BDC Editor tool.

 

Download the new SDK from here

 

Overview

The Business Data Catalog Definition Editor provides a visual tool for creating an Application Definition for BDC in MOSS 2007.  Features include:

• Underlying XML is abstracted by the design surface and properties window
• Drag and drop web methods, tables, or views to create line of business (LOB) connections.
• Entities and methods are created automatically from database metadata and WSDLs.
• Additional method instances can be added to further enhance the database or web service connection.
• Method instances can be tested from within the tool, enabling incremental development of LOB connections

 

 

  

I stumbled upon this nice post from Liam Cleary  which talking about his experience with showing a news section on his site and choosing between the normal lists and the new add pages to a news section. the post is really interesting and contain a very neat methodology.

 

 

Read the full post here

Thank you Liam.

 

 

From MS /folder/sharepoint.htm Team blog 

 

"My team, the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Communications and Collaboration team, has just finished putting the final touches on our beta release for the SharePoint Manageability Toolkit. We are very pleased to make this beta available.

Overview
This solution accelerator includes a new set of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Ops Manager), Management Packs for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

For those who are not familiar with Ops Manager 2007, this product is designed to “provide end-to-end service management that is easy to customize and extend to help improve service levels across your IT environment” (Ops Manager 07 Product Information).  These Packs will enable Ops Manager 2007 users to monitor WSS and MOSS deployments, generate reports, and resolve incidents from a centralized management location in their IT environments.

This new version of the Management Packs is designed to replace the existing Ops Manager 2007 Management Packs for WSS/MOSS.

What do we bring in that’s new to these WSS/MOSS Management Packs?

Common to both new packs:

·         Both the packs has no dependency on external management Pack “MOM.backward.compatibility.library.MP”

·         All the alerts are restructured in a more efficient manner such that they display the alert message with, Event ID, Event Source, Event Description and the host machine name (from which agent each particular alert message was thrown)

·         Tasks are added for IIS Related Operations.

·         Bug fixes related to management packs in existing KB articles have been addressed.

·         KB articles are implemented in SCOM based native code i.e. : MAML- Microsoft Assistance Markup Language.

·         Existing Packs Functionality is retained as such, and improved by adding well structured alerts, except 2 monitors in each Packs.

 

In the new WSS Pack:

·         WSS search service is monitored.

·         Unknown SQL errors are handled.

·         Additional Performance collection rules are added for collecting PERF Data for Processor, Process and Disk.

 

In the new MOSS Pack:

·         Discovery for Single sign On server is added.

·         Additional Performance collection rules are added for collecting PERF Data for memory, system, Processor, etc...

 

Toolkit Components
The SharePoint Manageability Toolkit includes the following:

·         Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

·         Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Management Pack Guide

 

·         Windows SharePoint Services Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

·         Windows SharePoint Services Management Pack Guide

These are packaged in two separate MSI files for WSS or MOSS as appropriate.

To Download the Toolkit
To access the beta for this toolkit, visit our Microsoft Connect program information page. "
 

Karine Bosch has released her new version of U2U CAML Builder which is now a sharepoint feature instead of widnows application. find more about this really useful feature in Karine"s post download it from here Thank you Karine for the great tool and thank you Patrick for referring it