SharePoint 2010 Product Packaging

WSS = SharePoint Foundation (simpler new name for “WSS”)

MOSS = SharePoint Server (simpler name for “MOSS”)

In terms of product features SharePoint Server continues to have Standard and Enterprise CAL tiers of features.

Microsoft also enhancing free basic search offering in Search Server Express 2010. The FAST Search capabilities will be available via the FAST Search for SharePoint add-on server for customers with the Enterprise CAL.

SharePoint Designer remain is free.

SharePoint Workspace (formerly Groove) is included in Office Professional Plus.

SharePoint 2010 Public Beat available in November

As per SharePoint Team Blog Public beta of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will be available in November. What great news :-)

Blog also given following resources that will talk about:

- SharePoint 2010 Website - to view SharePoint 2010 in action

- SharePoint 2010 forum- for SharePoint 2010 questions

- SharePoint 2010 PressPass- for the SPC 2009 keynote video, a Q&A with Jeff Teper, and more

- SharePoint 2010 Developer Center - for developer info

- http://www.mssharepointitpro.com - for IT Pro info

- http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint - for more SharePoint information

MOSS 2007 service account passwords change steps

Given below MOSS 2007 service account passwords change steps

To Update Central Administration application pool Password

Update the password for the account that is used by the Central Administration application pool. To do this, follow these steps:

On all servers in the server farm, open a command prompt, type the following line, and then press ENTER:

cd %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin

On the server that hosts the Central Administration Web site, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword

On all other servers in the server farm, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword -local

Restart Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. To do this, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

iisreset /noforce

To Update application pool account

Update the password for the application pool account that is used by Web applications on the server farm. To do this, type the following line at a command prompt on every server on the server farm, and then press ENTER:

stsadm -o updateaccountpassword -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword –noadmin

To Update Shared Service Password

Update the password for the account that is used by every Shared Services Provider (SSP) on the server farm. To do this, type the following line at a command prompt on every server on the server farm, and then press ENTER:

stsadm.exe -o editssp -title SharedServicesProviderName -ssplogin DomainName\UserName -ssppassword NewPassword

To Update Search Service Password

Update the password for the account that is used to run the Office SharePoint Server Search service. To do this, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

stsadm.exe -o osearch -farmserviceaccount DomainName\UserName -farmservicepassword NewPassword

To Update Single Sign On Service account Password

If the server farm is configured to use single sign-on, update the password for the account that is used by the Microsoft Single Sign-On Service. To do this, follow these steps:

Click Operations in SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, and then click Service accounts under Security Configuration.

Under Windows service, click Single Sign-On Service.

Under Configurable, specify the password, and then click OK.

For more details visit : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/934838

What makes an intranet valuable

Interesting article from Andrew Wright What makes an intranet valuable - Part 1

Over 6,500 intranet end users from 20 different organisations have responded to the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC). From these responses, we can gain a good understanding of how end users currently perceive intranets and what they think makes them valuable.

Based on article Staff being able to contribute and interact with the intranet’ is seen as the second least important quality of a valuable intranet by intranet end users. Interactive functionality such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums do not appear to be considered as important as the basics of an effective intranet, such as finding information and quality of content.

MySite Personalization site links

When user view MySite the don’t have way to come back to Corporate Portal Site. So we thought of adding link to MySite.

Under Shared Services you can add Personalization site link.

http://yourserver.com/

The system will show URL on MySite as displayed below

When you click “Corporate Home” the URL display as http://yourserver.com/ default.aspx?MySiteView=1 and Page Display as below

If you nice there is a person image icon embedded in to Navigation bar, its happen because of the MySiteView=1, which automatically appended by system.

To overcome above issue you need added # at end of the URL (i.e. http://yourserver.com/# which will display pages as normal.

Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

Today when we try to deploy webpart to SharePoint site, System display following error

“Service Unavailable  HTTP Error 503.  The service is unavailable”

When I research online come across that the error cause due to following reasons

1. Application Pools Identity account password may changed

2. The administrator has stopped the application pool

To Enable Service

1. Open up IIS Manager and

2. Go to Connection and Expand click on Application Pools

3. Select Application Pools and Start (if Services stopped)

If changed Identity account password

4. Locate your App Pool account and right-click on it and select ‘Advanced Settings’.

5. Click on the right of the Identity box to change it (A window will pop up).

6.  Click on Set and simply retype your App Pool Identity in there with the new password.