Bill Baer /bɛːr/

In a recent conversation with a colleague I was asked the differences between Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and 3.0 incremental crawls and the availability of results and thought I would share and explain briefly the differences here: In Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 when an incremental crawl is run, SharePoint determines whether or not a document has changed and should therefore be included in the incremental crawl results. It does it by performing a hash of the document, if the hash is different between crawls, then so is the document and the document is readily; though, perhaps not immediately available to search results, but are available prior to any complete crawl being run successfully.

SharePoint WebCasts for December http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2006/11/21/sharepoint-webcasts-for-december.aspx

40 Application Templates are current under development for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the interest has substantially increased following the product release, particularly to microsoft.com. Many of the templates will be familiar from previous versions of Windows SharePoint Services to include Help Desk, Project Site, Knowledge Base, etc.; however, will incorporate features in the latest version of Windows SharePoint Services, I.e. workflow, mail enabled lists, etc. The new templates as released will be available with 20 productivity templates for installation (UI) by site administrators, available only in English and 20 server administration templates for installation by server administers available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean, and Hebrew.

A short, but exciting post - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is now available to users of Windows Server 2003! For information and download availability visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/download.mspx. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.

Technical Library Product Overview Discover what’s new in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and locate product information. Help & How-to Get help and answers to frequently asked questions and common scenarios. Planning & Architecture Get planning and architecture information for implementing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in your own environment. Development Find SDK’s, screencasts, and blogs. Deployment & Upgrade Guides Find installation and configuration resources to include recommended topologies and scenarios. Operations

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 does not allow more than one connection to a domain; if you’d like to configure a custom import, such as a specific user filter (&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)), you can create a single connection with the common search base (DC=foo,DC=bar) and add a more restricted user filter to limit the users imported.

Technical Library Product Overview Discover what’s new in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and locate product information. Help & How-to Get help and answers to frequently asked questions and common scenarios. Resource Kit Resource kit for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Supplemental Documentation Download supplementation documentation for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Planning & Architecture Get planning and architecture information for implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in your own environment.

The attached SQL scripts are intended as sample scripts and may require some modification to suit your individual environments; however, serve as a foundation and guidance in SQL scripting under Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Retrieve active Content Databases from a WSS 3.0 Configuration Database Returns a list of all active Content Databases in the Windows SharePoint Services Configuration Database. USE <WSS_3.0_Configuration_Database> SELECT DISTINCT SiteMap.DatabaseId, Objects.Name FROM SiteMap INNER JOIN Objects

I received an inquiry this week asking how to migrate an existing Site Collection as a subsite of a new parent Site Collection without having the availability of SMIGRATE in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The answer are new STSADM parameters, import and export, which has been made available in STSADM. The import/export feature is based on the new Content Migration APIs; Recycle Bin state and alerts are not included in STSADM -o export - the requirement that the new Site Collection or subsite exists, remains as with previous versions of STSADM when using the restore parameters.

Of the many new features available in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0; the questions I most commonly field surround workflow; deployment, implementing, best practices, etc… The attached whitepaper serves as an excellent resource to answer many of these questions. Understanding Workflow in Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Microsoft Office System