Today i received this email which is an gmail meeting invitation that ask me for my user name and password.  This is the simplest way to get user name and password for any user.  pleaser do not reply or click anywhere on the link.  Simply delete the invitation.

Below is the image of a project that I completed in february 2008.  This is MOSS Standard Portal with log of customizations.  Almost 30 Web Controls were Developed as Web Parts using ASP.NET 2.0 and AJAX.  These controls are loading data from a complex dataware house which use hundreds of stored procedures and objects.  Audience is used to show and hide controls on the pages and master page and page layouts are designed for the placement. 

I have to Hide the company name because of that companies Policy :)

Step 1

Make sure you updates the server at a time with less users.

Take Full Backup

Back up the server farm before you start the software update installation. You should create a backup of search and all databases. We recommend that you follow these guidelines:

• Search: Use the full backup operation from SharePoint Central Administration or the stsadm command-line tool to back up the Shared Services Provider (SSP) that is associated with the index server. The backup operation includes both the SSP database and content index in the file system.

• Configuration database and Central Administration content database: Perform a full backup operation by using either the stsadm command-line tool or SQL Server. If you are using SQL Server, use the simple recovery model, so that your transaction log is truncated.

• Content databases: Perform a full backup operation with either the stsadm command-line tool or SQL Server to back up all content databases. If you are using SQL Server, use the simple recovery model, so that your transaction log is truncated.

• Front-end Web server: If you have customized the front-end Web server or are unsure of the extent of the customizations to your Web applications, we recommend that you make a backup image of your front-end Web server. Make sure that you have a backup of any solution packages that you have deployed on your front-end Web servers.

Step by Step Process

WSS 3.0 Upgrade	Office Server Upgrade

"The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the first independent, community-run, not-for-profit organization designed specifically for SharePoint Professionals. ISPA is a professional association dedicated to the promotion and global adoption of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.  The Association provides support and guidance to the community  by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information."

The individuals listed on this page are the founding members of this organization.  We want to thank the SharePoint Community for the great efforts they have put forth helping us make this Organization GO LIVE.  We also want to thank the ISPA Regional Evangelist members who with no hesitation jumped on board and saw the vision the board came up with and enveloped it as their own.  We SharePoint Professionals are a small but very close community.  With the work we will be doing in both the User Group areas and the SharePoint Professionals areas we hope you will embrace this and call it your own as well. Welcome aboard its going to be a great ride.

Visit the Web Site for more information

I have launched my first competed project that I took over in February.  It is King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology portal.    It can bee accessed at www.kacst.edu.sa

Your feedback on this is welcome. 

Greetings, everyone! My name is Tyler Butler, and I’m a Program Manager working on the Web Content Management (WCM) features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 at Microsoft. There’s been a lot of interest in learning more about the WCM feature set that has been built into MOSS and how Internet-facing sites can be built, maintained, and supported on top of MOSS. In this post, I’ll cover how a particular WCM feature called Content Deployment supports multi-farm topologies and can be used to enable authoring -> staging -> production scenarios. I’ll talk a little about previous solutions to the problem, give you an overview of the Content Deployment feature, and discuss the architecture of the feature in-depth.

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Plan Content Deployment

If you are looking forward to apply the infrastructure updates on Project and Project Server 2007 read the post

On July 15th, 2008 Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates are applicable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project 2007.

There are several noteworthy new features and fixes shipped in these updates for Project Server 2007 and Project 2007; specifically:

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VIA ECM Team Blog Microsoft has released three important updates to SharePoint Server, Project Server, Project professional and search server 2008.  These updates include

The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) applies to:

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
• Microsoft Search Server 2008
• Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

The Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) applies to:

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547) applies to:

• Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007

Download and Instructions

The updates can be downloaded from the links below:

Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x86

Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x64

Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x86

Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x64

Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547) - x86

* The updates are applicable to all shipping languages.

Installation Instructions are available from the links below:

Deploy Software Updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Deploy Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 - This article also applies to Project Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express.

Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Search Server 2008)

Related Knowledge Base Articles are available from the links below:

Description of the Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695)

Fixes Included in the Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB953749)

Description of the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)

Fixes Included in the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB953750)

Description of the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547)

Fixes Included in the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB953751)

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Many people have sent me emails and contacted me for Project Server 2007 End User Training videos but unfortunately I have not seen any Project Server step by step training videos.  I am some how thinking about starting Project Server 2007 End User Training Videos screencasts.  I am not sure whether I will be able to do it or not but I will try as much as I can.  I think one small session per day will not hurt me :)

I am hopeful that I will start the session from tomorrow.  I have EPM 2007 VPC which includes Project Server 2007, Portfolio Server, Microsoft Project 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007 etc .  I will surly use it. 

I also have to compile the list of session that will be in this training.  If you have any comments to want to add a session please drop a comment below.  I will try to make a session for this.

Regards,

Jerry

This is part III of the series.  In this post I will provide the steps to install MOSS on Windows Server 2008 by Splitstream.

When I ran the MOSS Setup I got the following message.

Windows Server 2008 does not support MOSS without SP1.  Either you can download the SP1 Version of MOSS or you can make splitstream easily.  Follow the steps given below.

1. Get both Service Pack 1 of MOSS and WSS 3.0 and rename the files to some easy names.	Open the command prompt and navigate to the location.  In my case files on placed on desktop
MOSS SP1
Create a folder in C Drive name SplitStreams	Run the following command to extract the files  the folder
	filename.exe /extract:C:\SplitStreams
MOSS Sp1 Setup will run	Accept the agreement and click contineue
Wait for the extraction
WSS SP1
Go to command prompt again	run the command with WSS 3.0 SP1 File. accept and Contineue
Wait for the extraction	navigate to the Extracted Folder C:\SplitStreams in my case
Press Control + A or Select All Files and Press Control C to copy all files	Go to MOSS Installation Folder and copy the files to Updates folder
Screen clipping taken: 6/30/2008, 8:53 PM
The folder will look like this
	Run MOSS Setup now and configure as usual.  If you don't know how to install MOSS see the guide in the files section or link in the my best posts. MOSS Installation Guide - Step by Step
Installing Project Server 2007 on the same VPC
Go to Project Server Installation folder and copy all the files from Splitstream folder to that Updates folder
Run project Server setup and then run the configuration wizard.

In this post I will provide steps to install SQL Serve 2008 on Windows Server 2008 VPC.

Installing SQL Server 2008

1. Run the Downloaded SQL_YYY_FULL.exe and extract the files to some temp location	2. This will automatically initiates the installation of .NET framework 3.5.
	Screen clipping taken: 6/28/2008, 11:43 PM
3. .NET Framework Installed	4. setup will install a Hotfix
You should restart the computer	Setup will configure your computer
Now login again	Run Setup.exe from extracted Folder
Run the configuration checker	Look for the status of each option
Installation of  SQL Server 2008 Server	Select New SQL Server standalone
Setup support rules will identity any potential problem	Wait for the configuration to get completed
Enter the CD Key	Accept the license agreement
Setup Support Files will be installed
	Select the desired options for SQL Server
Select the Default Instance or change if required	Click Next
Specify the password for system account	I left it blank and selected all the account as the same account
Select the authentication mode as required I normally use windows Auth	I specify the administrator incase you want an domain account to have full SQL Rights
I gave the same user rights on Analysis Services	I left the reporting services to configure later
Click Next	Click Next Again
Confirm and review your settings and click install
Click Next when finished	Click Close

SQL Server 2008 is installed.  In the next post I will tell you how to install MOSS using Split Stream.

Introduction

I was unable to to do anything for my blogs from last few months because of the load of work first and then the certifications challenge that I took.  But I am putting some screenshots here that I have taken using Office InfoPath my preparation of a Windows Server 2008 VPC.  I will be using the following technologies for this VPC

Windows Server 2008 RC1 - Evaluation Version :)

SQL Server 2008 Enterprise

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (Splitstream)

This will be a series of posts and will mostly contains screenshots.  Let the image talking :)

1. Installing Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.0

1. Load the ISO file form Microsoft Virtual PC.	2. Click Install Now
3.  If you have the key enter it otherwise leave it empty	4. Click Yes on Key confirmation
5. Select the version for evaluation I selected the Enterprise with Full Installation	6. Accept the License agreement and click Next
7. Click Custom as there is no other option on new installation :)	8. Select your drive and click Next
9. Wait for the installation to be finished
10. Click OK to Enter your user name and password	11. Enter your desired user name and password for creating the VPC user account
A Look at the Server Manager
Installing IIS 7
1. From Roles Section Click Add Role	2. Click Next
3. Select Application Server	4. Wizard will ask you for an additional component. Click Required Feature
5. Then Select Web IIS	6. Another Wizard will start Click Next
7. Select the required options as required.  I selected all for this	8. Select the 2nd options for SSL Certification (Configure Later)
9. Select the desired Server Roles for your Web Server	10. Review your installations and click Install