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13 new languages, 16 total languages are now available for MSDN subscribers!  For Office SharePoint Server If you are looking for the x86 or x64 versions they are both included in the ISO download package.  For more on how to extract the files from the ISO see the FAQ info below.  This list is what I got from a simple search on MSDN 1/11/07.

Servers + SharePoint + SharePoint Server 2007 (617MB)

• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Arabic)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Dutch)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (English)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (French)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (German)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Hebrew)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Italian)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Japanese)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Korean)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Polish)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Portuguese-Brazil)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Simplified Chinese)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Spanish)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Swedish)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Traditional Chinese)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Editions (Thai)

The English 180 day trial of Office SharePoint Server 2007 from download center is available here.

Office Forms Server 2007 (in Server)

• Office Forms Server 2007 (Arabic)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Dutch)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (English)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (French)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (German)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Hebrew)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Japanese)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Korean)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Italian)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Polish)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Portuguese-Brazil)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Swedish)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Thai)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Simplified Chinese)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Spanish)
• Office Forms Server 2007 (Traditional Chinese)

No trial is available.  Download SharePoint Server Enterprise Trial here to evaluate Forms functionality.

Office SharePoint Designer (in Applications)

• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Arabic)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Dutch)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (English)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (French)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (German)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Hebrew)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Japanese)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Korean)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Italian)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Polish)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Portuguese-Brazil)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Swedish)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Simplified Chinese)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Spanish)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Thai)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Traditional Chinese-Taiwan)
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - DVD (Traditional Chinese-Hong Kong SAR)

The 180 day English trial of Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is available from download center here.

Servers + SharePoint + SharePoint Server 2007 for Search

• Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard and Enterprise Editions (German)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard and Enterprise Editions (English)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard and Enterprise Editions (Japanese)

No trial is available.  Download SharePoint Server Standard or Enterprise trial here to evaluate Search functionality. 

ISO Instructions 
An ISO-9660 image file is an exact representation of the original installation media, including the content and the logical format. The most common use of an image file is to write it to a blank DVD Recordable disc resulting in an identical copy of the original DVD including file name and volume label information. ISO Images can also be extracted directly to a file location by many Recordable DVD utilities. For more information about image files, please visit the MSDN FAQ.

Joel Oleson

TechNet January Edition

An Overview of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

The new version of SharePoint is poised to meet all your collaboration and information management needs in a single, integrated platform. Here’s a tour of the new features and tools in MOSS that will change the way your enterprise works.

Thomas Rizzo

7 New Features That Enhance Security in SharePoint

With SharePoint tapping into more enterprise data and becoming more integral to business workflow, security becomes far more critical. Find out how these seven new features in MOSS can quickly improve security in your organization.

Adam Robert Buenz

Find It All with SharePoint Enterprise Search

Your company loses time and money while employees try to track down information. Enterprise search can help. MOSS offers an enterprise search tool that can find information quickly, whether it’s tucked away on an intranet site, living in a line of a business application, or even residing with a single employee.

Matt Hester

Powerful Command Line Administration for SharePoint

Don’t get bogged down with a GUI. There’s a far more powerful and much faster way to manage SharePoint, which lets you perform administrative tasks from a command prompt and even script common procedures.

Todd Klindt

Wiki While You Work

Wikis offer a new, more flexible way to collaborate, promoting an unstructured approach to thinking and exchanging ideas. And MOSS 2007 makes it incredibly easy to implement wikis in your organization. Here’s what you need to know to start building and using wikis in the workplace.

Mauro Cardarelli

Mark your calendars... Feb 6.

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages the World"s Largest Windows SharePoint Services Deployment (Level 300) - Scott St. Jean - MS IT

   Recommended Reading for January (click here for previous recommendations):

·         MOSS Search Word Stemming: Part 1 and Part 2 – written by Mike Taghizadeh, SharePoint Ranger; clarifies one of the most esoteric topics about SharePoint Search. If you’re interested in SharePoint Search, then subscribe to Mike’s blog because most of his posts have been and will be focused on this feature area.

·         Custom Master Pages and Site Definitions in WSSv3 (and MOSS2007) – written by Robert Bogue, SharePoint MVP; provides some good “in the trenches” details about implementing a custom Master Page and making the appropriate modifications to the Site Definition.

·         SharePoint Solution Generator: Part 1 (create a site definition from an existing site) and Part 2 (the internals of the created site definition project) – written by Serge van den Oever; provides a walkthrough (full of screenshots) on how to use the SharePoint Solution Generator stand-alone utility program that is part of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, which is scheduled to be released in Q1CY2007.

·         Write your own Custom Authentication Provider (in C#) for SharePoint to use: Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 – written by Liam Cleary; provides a comprehensive guide (with sample code) to developing a custom ASP.NET 2.0 Auth Provider (with membership and role providers) and doing the necessary configuration tasks to get MOSS working with it. In case you’re worried about having to change auth providers too often, check out the innovative Universal Provider Framework developed by Adam Buenz, SharePoint MVP, which will get you up and running with nearly any custom database type in less than 30 minutes.

·         Using the Business Data Catalog to connect to an Oracle database – written by Luis Du Solier, SharePoint MVP; provides a walkthrough (with plenty of screenshots) of using SharePoint Server’s BDC features to retrieve and interact with information stored in an Oracle database. Speaking of Oracle, I’m very pleased to highlight that the Microsoft Information Center for Oracle Customers website (http://www.microsoft-oracle.com) is now running on MOSS!

·         Whitepaper: Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise with the 2007 Office System – written by Arpan Shah, Group Product Manager for SharePoint; explores how the 2007 Microsoft Office system allows enterprises to adopt Web 2.0 ideas and technologies to create high-value, user-driven applications for the Internet and intranet.

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   Beginning Wednesday, February 14th, TechNet will launch the Plan, Deploy and Manage Microsoft Search Solutions for the Enterprise webcast series. One webcast per week for 8 consecutive weeks will provide Level 300 technical information on Microsoft’s Enterprise Search solutions. The 8 webcasts are organized into three high-level categories. Register for one to all of them today!

   And if you’re looking for guidance on how to successfully conduct a proof of concept for the search capabilities in MOSS, Mike Taghizadeh (a SharePoint Ranger), recently posted an excellent overview of MOSS Search POC Scoping and Typical Tasks on his blog.

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For testing, I just imported an OPML file for Google Reader. What a nice Interface. I like it. I read a few posts, and then thought I'd try to search and find something I read about a few weeks ago.

SCREECHING HAULT.....

What?

No Search? Google Reader doesn't offer a search option?

I'm sure that in my before coffee state this morning, I just can't see the search text box somewhere on the screen.

Will someone please tell me where it is?

   Recommended Reading for February (click here for previous recommendations):

·         Customizing MOSS Search – written by Ian Morrish, SharePoint Insider; provides a walkthrough of how to add 1) Microsoft Live Search results to the SharePoint Search page and 2) custom list/document property values to the search results summary.

·         Mobile browsers and devices that are supported in WSS 3.0 and in MOSS 2007 – Microsoft KB article that answers one of the most common FAQs.

·         Make your SharePoint debugging experience a little less painful – written by Andrew Connell, SharePoint MVP; provides 3 macros for Visual Studio 2005 to attached to the relevant SharePoint processes for debugging.

·         SharePoint 2007 CSS Reference Chart – maintained by Heather Solomon, SharePoint MVP; provides an excellent visual reference for the CSS styles used by WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007, which enable very easy customization using the Site Settings | Look and Feel | Master Page | Alternate CSS URL option for a site.

·         How to configure SharePoint trusted WSRP producers – Ian’s on a roll with another useful walkthrough that answers one of the most common (presales) FAQs (usually only needed from an RFI/RFP checkbox J) about MOSS. And one more helpful tip from Ian: How to run inline code in SharePoint aspx pages.

·         Displaying the Correct Titles of Lotus Notes Documents in SharePoint Search Results – written by Mei Ying Lim, SharePoint MVP; supplements Liam Cleary’s How to setup MOSS Search to index Lotus Notes walkthrough that would be useful for the many Notes customers, who want to leverage MOSS Search as a unified intranet search solution.

·         Careful When Working with Sealed Site Columns – written by John Holliday, SharePoint MVP; provides an insightful caveat about sealed site columns used by MOSS’s Publishing feature.

·         How to setup and Configure Forms Based User Administration Feature (Alpha Release) – written by Chandima Kulathilake; provides a walkthrough and sample code on how to address one of the most common FAQs about SharePoint authentication.

·         How to create the “Contact Map” mashup with a SharePoint Contacts List and Windows Live Maps – written by the Office Live team; provides a walkthrough and sample code for one of the most common FAQs about how to leverage Windows Live Services in SharePoint.

·         SharePoint Deployment and Provisioning Checklists, Powerful Keyword and Property Search in SharePoint Server, and Good List of Performance Counters – a few of the excellent reference articles written by my teammate, Joel Oleson, that you should bookmark.

·         Lastly, a couple of very handy deployment tools (with source code) conceptualized by Angus Logan, SharePoint Insider, and developed by Sanil Malik: MOSS 2007 Utility to Import/Export User Profiles and MOSS 2007 Utility to Import/Export User Profile Properties. Sanil also posted a well written article about User Profiles and Audience Targeting, which provides the key reasons for why you need these tools.

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You should check out this Web cast if you"re interested in how we do this internally.

Enterprise Search at Microsoft with Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Some really good videos and content here.  Put it on your list of things to do...

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