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Speaking at Microsoft "Best of SharePoint Conference" on February 1, 2010

January 2010 is almost finished, so I'd like to remind my readers that I'll be speaking at Microsoft's "Best of SharePoint Conference" all day event on Monday, February 1, 2010.  I'll be co-presenting "SharePoint Applications and Forms Services in SharePoint 2010" along with my former colleague Chris Bortlik - now of Microsoft. 

There will be many other topics and speakers from Microsoft and partners throughout the day.  Other topics include:

• Business Productivity
• Social Computing
• FAST/Enterprise Search
• SharePoint for Internet/Extranet Sites
• PowerPivot/Project Gemini/SQL 2008 R2
• ECM for the Masses
• Hands On Labs

If you're interested, please contact me or aducille@kma-llc.net for an invitation.  Thanks.   My next speaking engagement, in case you're wondering, is Managed Metadata and Taxonomy in SharePoint 2010, at SharePoint Saturday Boston on February 27, 2010.  Stay tuned... 

Project Server 2007 ActiveX Web Controls

This is a very obscure bit of Project Server minutiae - but since I spent 10 minutes digging for where I had it written down, figured I'd share it.

Project Server 2007 auto downloads a series of ActiveX controls to your browser to render most of its data on published projects. 

 
These controls are stored as objects inside Internet Explorer's Temprary Internet Files cache, and will be auto-installed as required.  However, during troubleshooting, you may need to "force" the reinstallation after manual removal.  To force this, just go to the Project Web Access web site and add the following to the end of the URL: "/_layouts/pwa/download/download.aspx"

so you are going to the site

http://[HostName]/[PWASite]/_layouts/pwa/download/download.aspx

substituting the host name and site name for your PWA implementation.

Project Server 2010 doesn't use ActiveX controls, fyi.  It's AJAX based to support multiple browsers (hooray!) so this will be less of a concern gong forward.

 

January 2010 Update: SharePoint 2007 Internal Version Numbers

Happy New Year!  Last month, Microsoft released its bimonthly December 2009 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint.

Again, if you ever need to confirm which update/revision of SharePoint you are running, without accessing the binary files themselves, these version numbers correspond to the version numbers reported in SharePoint Central Administration.  You can find this by going into the Operations tab, and under Topology and Services, select Servers in Farm.

Also, as promised by Steve Ballmer in his keynote at the 2009 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft has also added a new section to TechNet to help with identifying current required SharePoint patch levels - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx (Thanks, Steve!)

SharePoint 2007 Version/Release	Microsoft Support KB Reference	Version Number from Central Admin	Release Date
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 December 2009 Cumulative Update	KB977026/KB977027	12.0.0.6524	15 December  2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 October 2009 Cumulative Update	KB974988/KB974989	12.0.0.6520	27 October 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 2009 Cumulative Update	KB973409/KB973410	12.0.0.6514	25 August 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2009 Cumulative Update	KB971537/KB971538	12.0.0.6510	20 July 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2009 Cumulative Update	KB968851/KB968850	12.0.0.6504	30 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP2	KB953334/KB953338	12.0.0.6421	28 April 2009
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Cumulative update	KB956056/KB956057	12.0.0.6327	16 September 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Infrastructure Update	KB951695/KB951297	12.0.0.6318	15 July 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB948945	12.0.0.6303	21 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941274	12.0.0.6301	31 January 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 post-SP1 hotfix	KB941422	12.0.0.6300	26 February 2008
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP1	KB936984/KB936988	12.0.0.6219	8 December 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Security Bulletin MS07-059	KB942017	12.0.0.6039	9 October 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 August 24, 2007 hotfix package	KB941422 (updated)	12.0.0.6036	24 August 2007
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 RTM [Released To Manufacturing]	N/A	12.0.0.4518	16 November 2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2 TR	N/A	12.0.0.4407	2006
MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Beta 2	N/A	12.0.0.4017	2006