End of support to MOSS 2007 without SP2

By Stefan Goßner

Here is some information from the Microsoft lifecycle page for WSS 3.0:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 11/12/2007 Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy athttp://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport.

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP2 has been released on April 28th, 2009.

Based on the above listed information support for SharePoint servers without SP2 will end on April 28th, 2010. Be sure to evaluate Service Pack 2 now if you have not yet done and ensure to install it before the deadline.

As we had some support cases on this in the past: be sure to install SP2 not only for WSS and MOSS but also for all installed language packs for these products.

Reference

SDPS-SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Deep Dive with Jon Quist - Live meeting

Today I joined a live meeting presented by Jon Quist, Technical Lead for SDPS about (SharePoint 2010 Upgrade "Deep Dive") , the meeting was targeting any partner who wants to prepare early for leveraging SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) to upgrade their customers from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

Also Deb Bannon, Senior Product Manager & John Devaney, ContentMaster were part of the meeting and they describe more about benefits of SharePoint 2010.

The session took partners on a Deep Dive into the NEW SDPS 2010 Upgrade Planning Service, the latest offering from SharePoint Deployment Planning Services. Partners will learn how to navigate the SDPS partner site for the latest in upgrade best practices, tools, and methodology; and how to leverage the virtual machines for the offering. In addition, Jon dived into the deliverables for the Strategy Briefing Session, ADS session, and suggested POC activities.

It was helpful meeting and you can download the presentation from here

SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs

Brief Description
The SharePoint 2010 developer evaluation guide describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers.

Overview
This evaluation guide is designed to give you an overview of the feature set and extensibility points for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and an understanding of how the professional developer can use these features and extensibility points to create comprehensive solutions. This guide begins with an overview of the types of solutions that you can build by developing on SharePoint. It then addresses the developer tools for SharePoint 2010, the new platform features, and the solution deployment enhancements. The guide concludes with six walkthroughs that show example developer customizations in SharePoint 2010. The goal of this guide is to provide a framework for an effective evaluation of SharePoint 2010 as a solution creation platform. This guide is intended for the professional developer, development lead, and software architect. An evaluation guide focused on the SharePoint 2010 product and an evaluation guide for the IT Professional are also available.

Download

Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta

Pre-register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta becomes available in November.
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center

Now available at this URL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx

Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010

Use these ten modules to get started with development for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee513147.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek is live

It’s live: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

There’s 10 features in the overview, 6 features for developers and 6 features for IT Pros. Each feature is highlighted in the videos, there are feature descriptions and screenshots.

SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery

Jan Tielens created an amazing customization using jQuery to the search field in MOSS, it uses autosearch while typing in the search field, great effort Jan

Read more in Jan's blog

How to customize MOSS UI - Videos

Simple and amazing video tutorials series of how to customize MOSS UI by emagination network

PART 1: MASTER PAGE OVERVIEW AND CUSTOM DESIGN EXAMPLES. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nd7D4JwYbM
PART 2: PREPPING HTML/CSS TEMPLATES FOR MOSS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu2MIGg1sfc
PART 3: PREPPING THE FILES IN SHAREPOINT DESIGNER. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ScHtsoLXtY
PART 4: BASE MASTER PAGE CODE OVERVIEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zT-ab671s
PART 5: USING THE BASE MASTER PAGE TO CREATE A CUSTOM MASTER PAGE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrtQduUwAC8
PART 6: CREATING A CUSTOM PAGE LAYOUT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoxqGgpB8g
PART 7: ASSIGNING THE MASTER PAGE AND CSS FILE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN70CjPy80Q
PART 8: CREATING A NEW WEB PAGE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga-ScG4626s
PART 9: TIPS FOR STYLING THE NAVIGATION CONTROL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rWfdI8C-o
PART 10: CSS VARIATIONS IN A MOSS WEBSITE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqYD0f9b0Y

Regards,
Shady Khorshed

How To Add Reusable Content

Pro: Easy to maintain, flexible

Con: Only available in Rich HTML publishing fields (NOT the CEWP)

To add a new Reusable Content item:

Select the text / html code that you’d like to repeat

From the top-level site, View All Site Content to

Find the Reusable Content List

Add a new item to the list

• Enter a name, description (if desired)
  
• Click to enter content
  
  
• To paste in HTML, click “Edit HTML” button
  
• Click OK

To insert a Reusable Content item in page:

Enter Edit Mode for page

Click to Edit Content in page content field

In Rich HTML toolbar, click “Insert Reusable Content” button

Choose the desired Reusable Content Item from the list