Nov 27 2008

Service Pack 2 for MOSS 2007 and WSS v3.0

It has been officially announced that the up and coming Service Pack 2 for MOSS and WSS v3.0 is expected to be released between Februrary 2009 and April 2009

For more information please see the official anouncement on the Office Blog site


Nov 24 2008

IIS returns HTTP 404 for file downloads (Office 2007)

If you receive this error for Office 2007 applications please add the below. By default IIS 6 and above will not allow any MIME types to be downloaded. You have to explicitly state what can be downloaded from your web server

Please follow the following steps to add the MIME types.

  1. Open IIS (Computer Manager->Services and Applications->Internet Information Service)
  2. Right click on Web Sites.
  3. Select Properties
  4. Click HTTP Headers tab
  5. Click File Types button in the MIME Map section
  6. Click New Type
  7. Enter the MIME type data from the below table
Associated
Extension
Content type (MIME)
(remove any spaces below)
docx application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
pptx application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.presentationml.presentation
xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Nov 24 2008

Pointcheck MOSS 2007 monitoring tool

Pointcheck is a free monitoring tool that enables easy monitoring of critical performance counters for SharePoint, IIS and Windows Operating Systems.

http://www.idera.com/Products/Pointcheck/