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SSRS 2008 Add-in for MOSS 2007, Report Viewer 401: unauthorised error

Brian Madsen — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:14:38 GMT

Battling with network issues can be a PITA – battling with network issues AND application errors is a FPITA!

A problem popped up the other day with the Report Viewer, while selecting a report to display in the SQL Server 2008 Report Viewer web part.

We could run the Report Viewer web part on the server itself, but from anywhere else on the network it just didn’t work and it kept throwing this error:

Server was unable to process request. ---> The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized.

Rather annoying so we thought the proxy was causing the problem..but, nopes, doesn’t seem like that was the issue as we were told that the internal servers, if addressed via fully qualified domain names, didn’t get proxied.

ok…what else to do? some suggested Alternative Access Mappings were wrong…tried to add what was “missing” there..still a no go.

It was obvious that something was dropping off the authentication request somewhere as we were running in “Windows Authentication” mode, using NTLM.

fix was…

Go to the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration –> Application Management –> Reporting Services –> Manage Integration Settings and change the Authentication Mode to “Trusted Account”..

Now, of course, i need to find out why Windows Authentication mode isn’t working…at least we can proceed now.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 available

Brian Madsen — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Man, in my rush to play around with new goodies, i completely forgot to blog this little piece of news.

As the title dictates, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is now available for download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Service Pack 2 is also available for download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=en

Now i just hope that the SharePoint Reporting Services add-in doesn’t break…need to check that in the dev environment on monday!!

How do i get hold of the SolutionID from a SharePoint Solution (WSP)?

Brian Madsen — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:03:00 GMT

Arggfff...i'm playing around with SharePoint 2007 today and came up with an idea - i want to be able to read the SolutionID from the WSP file.

Now, a WSP file is basically just a CAB file so in essence i could extract the manifest.xml file and locate the SolutionID in there - but there has to be an easier way to do this.

Before i venture further into this one i wanted to put the question out there and see if some smart cookie had done it already.

Any takers?

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-In for MOSS 2007 installation failure..

Brian Madsen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:25:00 GMT

I'm trying to get SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for MOSS 2007 working and have everything set up, from the SQL Server side of things, to get this running.

But, while i'm trying to run the installer i'm told that the installation has been interrupted - so the installer doesn't seem to be working.

I looked at the logs on the SQL Server to see what was happening and for some reason it's trying to connect to the server as NT Authority/Anonymous - which isn't working. That was the first step and "thought" i'd located a fix for that.

What i tried was to run the following command, which only installs the files:

rsSharePoint.msi SKIPCA=1

and then move to the "Temp" folder and run:

rsCustomAction.exe /i

that threw a different error:

User: xxxxxxx
Installing Report Server feature.
Calling copyappbincontents command.

Access denied.

Install error: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensi
ons\12\bin\stsadm.exe return error code: -2147024891
Error details: System.Exception: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\
Web Server Extensions\12\bin\stsadm.exe return error code: -2147024891
   at RSCustomAction.BaseProcessLaunch.LaunchCommand(String fileName, String arg
uments, Boolean ignoreExitCode)
   at RSCustomAction.StsadmCommands.CopyAppBinContents()
   at RSCustomAction.RSFeatureSetup.Install(Boolean repair, Int32 addRetries)
Uninstalling Report Server feature.
Uninstalling Report Server feature.
Report Server feature was uninstalled.
Stopping W3SVC service.
SSRSCustomActionError: Cannot open W3SVC service on computer '.'.

Has anybody had this error before? my account is part of the local administrators group on the server and searching for that error code seems to reveal nothing either.

Any ideas?

SharePoint training in Perth - Professional MOSS 2007 Solutions by Readify

Brian Madsen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:16:16 GMT

Wow - finally some SharePoint training in Perth, WA that steps up and presents something other than the typical "Boot Camp".

It's a four (4) day, intensive training program which you'd be nuts to miss out on.

Here's an outline of what's on offer for those four days:

Day 1

SharePoint 2007 Developer Roadmap

Architectural overview of SharePoint and the Office 2007 system

WSS as a collaboration solution

WSS as a server-side development platform

Overview of MOSS components and services

Creating and testing your first WSS feature

SharePoint Architecture

WSS Integration with ASP.NET 2.0

The configuration database and content databases

Configuring the web.config file for a Web application

Understanding site pages versus application pages

Pages and Site Branding

Understanding page parsing and Safe Mode restrictions

Creating a feature with custom page templates

Designing page templates using controls and Web Part Zones

Understanding the standard default.master page template

Creating a feature to apply branding at the site collection level

Understanding and extending the CSS classes in core.css

Day 2

Developing Web Parts

Creating, deploying and debugging ASP.NET Web Parts in WSS

Designing Web Parts with persistent properties

Web Part Description files and the Web Part Gallery

Creating a feature to import Web Parts into the Web Part Gallery

Backwards compatibility with WSS V2-style Web Parts

Lists and Content Types

New WSS 3.0 enhancements to lists and document libraries

Defining site columns, custom field types and content types

Provisioning document libraries using a feature

Defining a custom list type using a feature

Creating event handlers using custom event receiver classes

Forms Services with InfoPath 2007

Creating input forms with InfoPath

InfoPath integration with WSS forms libraries

Forms Services Architecture

Designing server-side forms with InfoPath 2007

User deployment of server-side forms versus administrator deployment

Day 3

SharePoint WorkFlows

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Primer Creating WF programs in Visual Studio with the workflow designer

Creating, deploying and debugging workflow templates for WSS

Creating workflow associations and workflow instances

Developing workflows which create and wait on WSS tasks

Creating workflow input forms for MOSS using Microsoft InfoPath

Extending MOSS Portal and Search

Shared Service Provider (SSP) Architecture Creating sites from the MOSS Collaboration Portal site template

User Profiles and Audience Targeting

MOSS infrastructure for creating MySites Configuring and extending MOSS Search

The Business Data Catalog (BDC)

Working with BDC Application Definition Files Application, Entities, Methods and Associations

Surfacing backend data using BDC Web Parts BDC integration with MOSS search

Creating custom Web Parts that execute BDC queries

Day 4

Web Content Management

Customising sites creating from the MOSS Publishing Site template

Creating content types and custom page layouts for Web content

Understanding the MOSS content approval process

Converting Office documents into Web-ready formats

Optimizing performance with MOSS caching features

Excel Services and Report Center

Introduction to Excel Services

Publishing Excel spreadsheets that render in the browser

Trusted locations, connections and user-defined functions (UDFs)

Creating Dashboard pages with Report Center Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and filters

MOSS integration with SQL Reporting Services and SQL Analysis Services

WSS/MOSS Security

Trust Levels, Web Parts and Code Access Security (CAS)

Windows Authentication versus Forms Authentication

WSS Identities and Security Contexts

Escalation of Privilege

Delegating User Credentials

Using the MOSS single sign On (SSO) Service

For more information on this fantastic offer, go here: http://www.readify.net/Default.aspx?tabid=271

To register (be quick, i'm positive this will sell out fast), click here: http://www.readify.net/book+now!.aspx?ctl=RBS%20Registration&mid=1467&CourseID=29&Type=NormalReg

These types of training sessions does not come along often enough - maybe we'll see more coming out from Readify?

Thanks to Andy Lamb for informing us about it!

Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2007,Training,Readify

Error on subsequent deployment of web part for VS2008 and VSeWSS 1.2

Brian Madsen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Working with the VS 2008 extensions for WSS for a week now (on 32-bit..sigh) and today i got an odd behavior from it, which seems to be the same as was occuring for VS 2005 extensions for WSS..methinks this might just be a straight port.

anyways, been deploying web parts from VS as i've been developing them (and for testing of course) quite happily since i installed them. But today i started getting an ambigious error "Value does not fall within the expected range" showing in the VS IDE error list. double-clicking on it solved nothing..

Tried a few things to see what was caushing this and ReSharper's inbuilt solution analysation tool showed nothing either...odd.

then went through the build output and saw that the error occured straight after "Creating Solution...". With no stack and no indication on what was causing it.

Very useful error? not really...strange thing was that the solution would build, my pre-build and post-build events were firing fine..everything was working, except deploying the web parts.

Tried pulling one after the other out of the project..nothing..nada..was...not..working.

Lastly i tried, just for fun really, to move to the solution folder and "remove" the pkg folder (the package folder that is, but it's called pkg), did another deploy and voila..working.

So, if you get this ambigious error simply just remove that folder. it'll be generated again and i'm assuming that there's either a permission issue popping up there or a corruption of the files. Regardless, deleting that folder did the trick.

Update: it appears that i now have to delete the "pkg" folder each time i want to deploy....hmmmmm. think this might have to be brought to the teams attention as i've seen this problem mentioned for VS 2005 VSeWSS 1.1 as well.

Update: an easy fix for this problem is to add a pre-build event rd /S/Q "$(ProjectDir)pkg\" which will remove that folder and all files in it before attempting to build the project. It doesn't really fix the problem (as i don't know what's causing it to start with) but it does allow you to continue on with your work if you get stuck with this. Still looking for a "TRUE" solution to stop it altogether.

Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Brian Madsen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:32:37 GMT

I think it’s really about time that VS2008, which is the development flagship, gets up to speed and starts enabling developers!

The push from MS has for a long time been 64-bit…go 64-bit OS…64-bit, 64-bit and then a bit more 64-bit.

But where is the support? honestly guys! for systems to move onto 64-bit, you need to ENABLE those that work with it to actually be capable of working with it.

The latest release, Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services is IMHO an epic fail..

Two reasons:

1) still has to work on Windows Server 2003 even though it’s considering best practises to seperate development machines and servers.

2) 64-bit is as of yet, not in scope..yes that’s right, 64-bit isn’t supported in the latest release.

Alex Malek’s response to this was “Unfortunately, 64-bit is not in scope at the moment. Along with support for WinXP/Vista, this is at the very top of our list of pain points we hope to address in subsequent releases.”

that’s simply just not good enough….not in scope? i mean, did we just wake up this morning to find that 64-bit had evolved over night?

That goes without saying…this now pushes the adoption rate out again for Visual Studio 2008. I know it’s probably a mad rush to get VS2008 out the door and the tools should follow shortly after. Yet again, those who have adopted 64-bit is stuck again and i now have to create yet another development environment (virtual of course) so i can have these extensions implemented – time == money == implementation == adoption == sales…it’s an easy equation.

And i was seriously looking forward to being able to use Visual Studio 2008 out-of-the-box for SharePoint development.

Dissapointed..seriously dissapointed that this is the stance that’s been taken by the SharePoint Designer team.

One for the road…

Can we find a date, preferably before Visual Studio 2012 gets released, which will let us know if we should even bother with Visual Studio 2008, not to forget 64-bit, at this stage?

Visual Studio SharePoint Tools Blog Launched…phenomenal!!

Brian Madsen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:03:58 GMT

Yeps – as the title indicates a new blog has been launched over at MSDN!

It’s good to hear that the Visual Studio Business Applications SharePoint Tools QA team has joined us in the blogosphere (phew, long name for that team!!).

They are promising a range of topics, some of them VERY relevant, especially with the lack of support Visual Studio 2008 has had prior to the extensions was released earlier last month.

So, if you are like me, and work with SharePoint AND Visual Studio this will most certainly be one of those blogs that gets a daily visit (if not more often).

Great work guys!

I think I’ll just put a little point out that’s constantly a dissapointment…

Authoring workflos…..uhmm..can only be done on a local server and we all know how smart it isn’t to run Visual Studio on a production environment. So how are you meant to test and debug a workflow, that for some obscure reason, doesn’t run on your remote test environment or production environment? Well you can’t..it’s almost as if authoring a sharepoint sequential workflow is a fire and forget scenario. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, by why on earth hasn’t this been looked into further?

you simply can’t debug a failing workflow on a remote server without having visual studio running.

and the error reporting is extremely bad by default..so, back to drawing board to see what could possibly have gone wrong.

Anyways, hopefully the team will eventually start thinking a bit further and get us some hooks into SharePoint that will allow us to debug remotely.

that being said, if somebody has magically managed to get this working, please let me know!

The blog was launched on the 1st of July, 2008 with a post that goes into a bit more detail.

Find the post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/vssharepointtoolsblog/archive/2008/07/01/welcome-to-the-visual-studio-sharepoint-tools-blog.aspx

Again, welcome guys, even though you’ve been blogging individually for a long time it’s good to see the team collaborate to help us poor simple MOSS developers out.

Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2007,Blogs,Jung Lou,Brent Williams,Peter Jausovec,Visual Studio SharePoint Tools

Sahil Malik – Adv. Developers SharePoint 2007 training in Norway

Brian Madsen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:51 GMT

Sahil is as always a very, very busy man and right after the launch of his SharePoint 2007 Training DVD he’s taking it a step further and delivering hands-on training in Norway.

It’s a 5 day training course and i wonder if we couldn’t get him down under?

Here’s some details on the content of the training:

Course Outline

Day 1

Configuring your SharePoint environment
The important parts of a SharePoint server installation
The basics of SharePoint
Writing your first feature and solution
SharePoint as a WCF client and host

–Why is WCF so compelling in SharePoint, and what are the limitations?

Day 2

Features and Solutions – deploying new pages to SharePoint
Authoring & Deploying Web Parts
Authoring & Deploying Web Parts – advanced scenarios.
AJAX and SharePoint
Silverlight 2 in SharePoint 2007

–Using Expression Studio, Visual Studio 2008 and SharePoint designer effectively.

Day 3

A WCF service that uses CAML, an introduction to CAML.
Putting WCF and Silverlight together with SharePoint 2007 webparts.
Managing your data in SharePoint

–Custom Field Types

–Content Types

–List & document library definitions, instances and event receivers.

Understanding and configuring search in SharePoint.
Search, for the hardcore developer.
A Silverlight and LINQ front end to SharePoint search

Day 4

InfoPath 2007 & Forms Services – basics and advanced implementations.
Writing workflows for SharePoint 2007
Writing Workflows – Advanced scenarios.
User Profiles and My Sites

–Feature Stapling

Customizing and Branding SharePoint.
SharePoint as a web content management solution.

Day 5

The Business Data Catalog
Using the Entity Framework in SharePoint
Excel Services
SharePoint with SQL Server 2008 reporting services

–What is new in SQL Server 2008.

–Setting up SSRS with SharePoint 2007.

SharePoint security – deep dive.
A mini project involving .NET 3.5 and SharePoint 2007:

–Develop a mini project in the class:

–Problem statement

–Architecture and design

–Separate out into teams

–Develop! (If time permits!)

If that doesn’t wet your appetite then you’re simply just not serious about MOSS!!!

Now i’m serious!! it would be awesome to get Sahil Malik down here and i’m searching for companies that’s serious about MOSS/SharePoint 2007 and want to get him down. I’ve spoken to Sahil on a number of occasions and he’s definitely willing to come down.

So, if you’re part of a company that works with MOSS/SharePoint 2007, and you think you’re serious about it, send me an email and i’ll gladly put you into contact with Sahil.

http://www.programutvikling.no/kurskalenderoversikt.aspx?mid_1=1352&mid=1535&id=273948

Can only envy the Norwegians for getting this opportunity!

Technorati Tags: Sahil Malik,SharePoint 2007 Training

SPGridView behavior issue - help!!!

Brian Madsen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:34:35 GMT

I have a major problem, and some odd behavior, from the SPGridView and i'm hoping somebody can give me a clue as to what to fix (or who to shoot if we can't fix it).

Scenario:

I have a page, which contains 4 web parts which each contain a SPGridView. I have enabled sorting and filtering on all grids and that's working - well that's what i thought anyways. If i sort, either by using the dropdown or by clicking on the header, on the first grid then it works. The grid sorts as it should. If i try to sort by using the dropdown (from the header in SPGridView) on either of the other three grids, it'll work the first time, but when the page reloads and i try again, i get a javascript error and the dropdown doesn't appear. At this stage, the first grid still works fine. Other odd behavior is that the sort has also been applied to the first grid on the page (the one that still works). This is particular to columns that exist in all four grids. If the first grid doesn't have a column identical to the other grids, and i sort by any of the other three grids, then it's not applied, yet the javascript error still comes up.

the header sorting (clicking the header on the column) is still working on all four grids, except for the fact that the sort that i'm applying to grid 2,3 or 4 (and if the column exists in the 1st grid) will also apply itself to the 1st grid.

The data in all four grids are different and pulled down via an ObjectDataSource.

Has anybody seen this behavior before and (hopefully) are you able to point me to a solution (except, don't use SPGridView)?

Andrew Bartucciotto : Spell Check Web Service in Share Point - Excluding SharePoint Controls

Brian Madsen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:27:28 GMT

How smart is this guy?? In just one day he cut down a massive task of mine on the project we're working on - and sorted out a problem i'd run into with excluding sharepoint controls (such as the People Editor) from being spellchecked.

Andrew Bartucciotto : Spell Check Web Service in Share Point - Excluding SharePoint Controls

Awesome work Andrew!!

I'm sure we'll see plenty of gems coming from Andrew in the time to come, so stay tuned!

SharePoint - using the rich text box in a custom user control

Brian Madsen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:56:02 GMT

Frustration aplenty with this one. Logic dictated that the RichTextField control in SharePoint would have been the one to use...

but no, it's not (as i found out)...so how do you use that shiny nice Rich Text Box control in a custom web part or user control.

simple - so simple i'm sad to say it took me 1 1/2hrs discussing it with some like-minded fellows before we found out what it was (sad i know, but we got there in the end).

Add this to your ascx (if you're using a web user control):

   1: <%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

and here comes the simple bit..

   1: <SharePoint:InputFormTextBox runat="server" ID="RichTextBox" ValidationGroup="CreateCase" Rows="8" Columns="40" RichText="true" RichTextMode="FullHtml" AllowHyperlink="true" />

That's it...not that impressive but that's what you have to do..simple eh :)

Note: this is only available in MOSS 2007.

SharePoint - using AJAX Control Toolkit DropDown fixed!!

Brian Madsen — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:59:15 GMT

One of the most frustrating issues with SharePoint is the lack of a doctype..eg. we're running in what's known as "quirks mode" and javascript/css/etc has a way of misbehaving when that's the case.

Same goes for the AJAX Control Toolkit - which has some nasty surprises up its sleeve if you run it within SharePoint (MOSS 2007 i mean).

I've been doing a lot of customisations lately and as the UI in MOSS is a bit clunky you can seriously extend the usability and user experience (UX!!! yay i used a buzzword! soup for me!) by implementing AJAX and in this case the Control Toolkit as well.

The AJAX Control Toolkit team made a decision very early on NOT to support "quirks mode", which naturally leaves you dead in the water if you try to implement it.

Now that being said, not all the controls in the toolkit breaks in "quirks mode"..Two obvious ones are the ModalPopup and the DropDown (as it implements the Popup) - and both have positioning issues.

I've fixed the ModalPopup and then the DropDown was acting up - so back to the board and flick through the source code for the AJAX Control Toolkit.

Anyways, what i found out is that it does a repositioning of the Popup panel which gets the "Bounds" once more (naturally) and here did something odd.

Case: if you scroll a page down it will subtract the number of pixels you've scrolled from the vertical axis (eg, Y) and that's a no-no. It should still keep that in place, but as i said, we're in "quirks mode" and the way to get it differs from the way it's currently getting it.

Fix: Open up Common.js in the AJAX Control Toolkit and add the following code:

   1: /// <summary>Gets the distance the vertical scrollbar has traveled</summary>   2: /// <returns type="string">   3: /// </returns>   4: getPageScrollYDistance : function() {   5:     var scrollY = 0;   6:        7:     if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollTop)   8:         scrollY = document.documentElement.scrollTop;   9:     else if (document.body && document.body.scrollTop)  10:         scrollY = document.body.scrollTop;  11:     else if (window.pageYOffset)  12:         scrollY = window.pageYOffset;  13:     else if (window.scrollY)  14:         scrollY = window.scrollY;  15:       16:     return scrollY;  17: },

And then you just have to locate the getBounds function in the PopupBehavior.js file and add the following code:

   1: /// this added to compensate for the y axis value which returns a figure that doesn't contain the scrolled area.   2: /// Added by Brian H. Madsen, 12th of March, 2008   3: diff.y += $common.getPageScrollYDistance();

So there you go...compile the AJAX Control Toolkit and re-deploy it to your MOSS solution. Naturally, until i've submitted this fix to the AJAX Control Toolkit team/project it wont be included if you decide to update your version.

Disclaimer: If you break it, you buy it. This code is provided as is and does not constitute a warranty and responsibility is solely your own. In basic terms..i don't take responsibility for the code if it breaks something else for you. So, test - test - test - test - test - test - test.

Using DropDownList with an UpdatePanel in MOSS 2007

Brian Madsen — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:21:00 GMT

Just a quick note (mostly for myself, but sharing is caring :) )..

once MOSS SP1 has been installed and you want to implement an UpdatePanel in a web part on MOSS 2007 in order to capture a SelectedIndexChanged event from a DropDownList you have to add the following to your page_load event

if (this.Page.Form != null)
            {
                if (this.Page.Form.Attributes["onsubmit"] == "return _spFormOnSubmitWrapper();")
                    this.Page.Form.Attributes["onsubmit"] = "_spFormOnSubmitWrapper();";
            }

            ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, this.GetType(),
                                                 "UpdatePanelFixup",
                                                 "_spOriginalFormAction = document.forms[0].action;_spSuppressFormOnSubmitWrapper=true;",
                                                 true);

Otherwise the event wont be captured by the scriptmanager...

Fabian rocks....Sharepoint DVDs going on order!

Brian Madsen — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:05:06 GMT

today i got the green light to purchase two copies of the Sharepoint Training DVD which Sahil Malik created together with Carl Franklin.

All thanks to Fabian who vouched for it and put the PO through for me.

Now i just have to wait for Carl to get back to me on how we actually buy them.

Awesome work Fabian - thanks heaps for putting your weight behind the request!

The master of MOSS 2007 releases MOSS training DVD

Brian Madsen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:17:17 GMT

Sahil Malik, has just announced the release of his long awaited MOSS 2007 training DVD - an absolute MUST have for this Christmas if you work with MOSS 2007.

Sahil is probably one of the best in the market these days on the topic of MOSS 2007 and has just been "converted" to a MOSS MVP which was great news to the MOSS community!

At the meager price of USD$695 you get the best of the best in MOSS.

That being said, this isn't just a personal development training DVD, but should be seriously considered by corporates.

Its a great basis for training (durr, it's a training DVD, go figure) but also to get new staff quickly up to speed on MOSS - not to forget to get some of us old dogs back into line and ensure that there's a flat level of knowledge within the company you work for.

The DVD is definitely not just for new starters, but contain plenty of golden nuggets on topics.

Sahil is not only an accomplished consultant, but has over the years been producing a wealth of articles for both www.developer.com and www.codeguru.com.

Some of the topics covered in this DVD is:

Preparing a good Sharepoint environment
Building Sharepoint sites
Sharepoint security
Content types
Leveraging VSeWSS for Team Development
Sharpeoint as a WCM
Writing custom web parts
Excel Services
Levaraging InfoPath
Workflows in MOSS
BDC, the business data catalog
Administration and monitoring

What more can you seriously ask for?

Not only do you get some brilliant videos but you also get the source code that's shown in the videos!

I honestly can't think of anybody else to learn from!

Way to go Sahil!

MOSS 2007 Development resources, anyone?

Brian Madsen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:57:22 GMT

I'm on a rampage with MOSS again - actually enjoying getting back into the saddle and playing with it.

But, since it's been a little while i've lost most of the resources I used to frequent.

So - anybody have any good/great/fantastic MOSS 2007 resources to share? don't be stingy, spill the beans!

Into MOSS 2007 development - look no further, OZMOSS is here

Brian Madsen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:51:32 GMT

Aaron Saikovski (yes, THAT Aaron from Readify.net) set up a mailing list in April '07 with the aim of furthering MOSS development.

Today i had my first big problem with some customisation i'm doing and Aaron told me about the list.

Now why haven't I seen this mentioned before? dunno, could have gotten lost in the masses of RSS feeds that i'm subscribed to (oversubscribing??? hehehe).

Anyways, if you're interested in participarting in the mailing list just head on over to www.ozmoss.com and follow the directions on how to subscribe (its easy, just email listserver@ozmoss.com with "subscribe" in the subject and you're rocking!).

This is the second brilliant list the boys from Readify has started up - there's also www.oztfs.com which is a Team Foundation Server mailing list)!

well done guys! awesome initiative...