Good Article About How to Imstall MOSS SP1

SP1 for MOSS and WSS have been out for a while. I recently implemented to a virtual environment very close to the production system and under testing. Microsoft released lots information for any of you out there to read (after you finish all the SharePoint blogs, tips, technical info and codes).

If you do not have time to finish the documents and you have a simple environment, then Shane Yang published a very clear article to guide you through the installation. Read it before you start and you should be fine.

Remember, you have to install SP1 for WSS first, do not run configuration wizard and the install SP1 for MOSS. I heard some one only installed MOSS SP1 and had to re-build the virtual server. So, read it before you start.

Enjoy it.

2008 Summer Regional SharePoint Conference

SharePoint User Group of NoVA is going to have the 2nd regional SharePoint conference from June 27 to 28 (Friday and Saturday) at Holiday Inn, Washington Dulles.

Last conference was small but very successful. If you are leaving in or close to great Washington DC area, don't miss this good opportunity to learn and share your information and experience.

The details of it are here.

Did I mention, compare to other conference, this is very inexpensive one.

Hopefully I can see you there.

Steps to Configure MOSS 2007 Server Farm

Jose Barreto wrote a good and simple list of steps to perform basic configuration of MOSS server farm. If you need something as quick reference, his article may be very handy sometime.

His article is here.

Office can't open files from MOSS and Crashed

When you clicked on a document link on a MOSS/WSS 3 site and received an error message, then your browser crashed. You tried it again, it happened. You rebooted and tried, it crashed. So, what happened?

If you have any components of Office 2003 and 2007 installed on the crashed machine, this could happen. What I mean any components? For example, you have Office 2003 suite and SharePoint Designer 2007 or Office 2007 suite and Project 2003 installed together. This issue may happened to any PC with OS other than XP SP2 and browser other than IE 7, but so far I only had chance to test under this environment.

When a patch targeting either Office 2003 and/or 2007 installed, you may have this issue. So, what can you do?

Don't worry and do not uninstall anything. Open your Control Panel and find Add/Remove Programs. Find Office 2003 components installed and choose a Repair Installation (if you do not see this option, do not uninstall it unless you can not resolve this issue).

Then find Office 2007 components and do the same thing, Repair Installation. it will require you to reboot you machine. After that, you should be able to open the document links as before.

If not, you have to do more testing. So far I can resolve this issue with these steps I just mentioned.