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Install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a stand-alone computer, Deploy in a simple server farm (Office SharePoint Server), and Troubleshooting backup and recovery (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   These articles have been updated with new instructions to ensure that customers start the SQL Server VSS Writer when performing SharePoint VSS-based backup and restore functions.

Large-file-chunk-size: Stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server) and Job-immediate-alerts: Stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server)   These articles have been updated with corrections to the syntax section.

Using wildcard characters in property searches (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article provides information that can help users make successful queries.

Locking down Office SharePoint Server sites   This article describes how to restrict anonymous access to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites.

Manage inter-farm shared services (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated to include information about:

• Granting the farm administrator account for the child farm appropriate permissions on the parent farm.

• Granting the parent farm administrator account appropriate permissions on the child farm.

Back up a farm by using built-in tools (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article has been updated with a procedure for verifying that the SQL Server Volume Shadow Copy Service is set to start automatically before you back up a single server deployment for the first time.

Downloadable book: Administering Enterprise Search for Office SharePoint Server   An updated version of this downloadable book is now available. Downloadable books contain content from the TechNet technical library, which is revised regularly. The updated book includes the most recent version of this content as of June 2009.

Plan site security (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated to reflect that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 may disable output caching if a site collection contains more than 10,000 unique Access Control lists (ACLs). Users may experience slower performance when they try to access the site content.

Configure incoming e-mail settings (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated with information from Knowledge Base article Attachment is missing from an e-mail message that is sent to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library.

Back up a farm by using the Stsadm command-line tool (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This updated article contains a minor correction to Stsadm syntax.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled help format (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=124606)   All Office SharePoint Server 2007 documentation found in the TechNet library is available in downloadable .chm format. This download has been updated to include all content in the library as of June 12, 2009.

Trimauditlog: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated to give the correct parameters for this operation.

Deploy language packs (Office SharePoint Server)   This article provides procedural information for deploying language packs. The article now includes clearer steps and links to the Microsoft Download Center.

Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated to include a link to the new, interactive Silverlight application for Stsadm operations and properties. Now all Stsadm commands are browseable and searchable, and each operation and property is directly linked to detailed articles in the TechNet library if you need more information.

Move all databases (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   The syntax in this article has been corrected.

Change the content index location for a query server (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes how to change the location of the content index that is saved to the file system of a query server.

Specify a different index server for an SSP (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   If you have more than one index server in the farm, you can change the index server that is associated with a Shared Services Provider (SSP). This article describes how to specify a different index server by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site and by using the Stsadm command-line tool.  

Configure Web servers (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This new section is added to Configure the farm for search (Office SharePoint Server 2007). It includes articles that describe how to configure all Web servers as query servers and how to configure a dedicated front-end Web server for crawling by using the user interface or by editing the Hosts file.  

Add query servers to a farm (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes the tasks that you must complete to add a query server to the farm: First, add an application server to the farm, and second, configure application server roles. You can repeat Task 1 and the query server configuration in Task 2 at any time to add more query servers as appropriate for the organization.

Microsoft Press: Upgrading from Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003   This book excerpt includes a chapter from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion, a comprehensive reference that details features and capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The chapter is titled “Upgrading from Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003.”

Manage shared scopes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   Shared scopes are search scopes that are available across all site collections in a particular Shared Services Provider (SSP). These articles describe how to create or delete a shared scope, add a scope rule to a shared scope, and edit properties and scope rules for a shared scope.

Configure disaster recovery across SharePoint farms by using SQL Server log shipping   This article describes how to use Microsoft SQL Server log shipping to create a disaster recovery farm in a geographically distributed data center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2). By using this configuration, you can provide a disaster recovery site that provides current search results when a failover occurs.

Plan document libraries   This article has been updated with a note indicating that when using slide libraries and content deployment, users should not add folders to the slide library, as the site cannot be exported or imported.

Deletesite: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   The gradualdelete parameter was added in the April Cumulative Update to perform gradual deletion of site collections. If this parameter is present, SharePoint marks the site collection as deleted to prevent further access while a SharePoint Timer job gradually deletes the data in the site collection.

Administering people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This section describes how to use people search capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to enable users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise and by common interests.

Job-gradual-site-deletion: Stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server)   This property was added in the April Cumulative Update to perform gradual deletion of site collections. This enables a site collection to be marked as deleted, which immediately prevents any further access to its content.

Getosearchsetting: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This operation was added in the April Cumulative Update to display the current values of the Enterprise search settings in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Setosearchsetting: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This operation was added in the April Cumulative Update to set the current values of the Enterprise search settings in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag)   This set of articles provides guidance for using the SharePoint Diagnostic tool (SPDiag) version 1.0, included with SharePoint Administration Toolkit version 4.0. SPDiag simplifies and standardizes troubleshooting of SharePoint Products and Technologies at a farm level, and provides a unified view of collected troubleshooting data.

Back up and restore site collections by using built-in tools (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article has been updated to include the use of commands released in the April Cumulative Update.

Delete a site collection (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated to include the use of the Stsadm deletesite operation with the gradualdelete parameter. The gradualdelete parameter was added in the April Cumulative Update.

Merge content databases (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article has been updated to include the recommendation that you install the April Cumulative Update before you merge content databases.

Move site collections to a new database (split a content database) (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article has been updated to include the recommendation that you install the April Cumulative Update before you split content databases.

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007   This article has been updated to include information about the April Cumulative Update.

Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Products and Technologies (white paper)   These two white papers provide information about the important updates included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Run a farm that uses read-only databases (Office SharePoint Server)   This article describes how to run a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm in which content databases have been set to be read-only (a read-only farm). A read-only farm can be part of a disaster recovery environment that runs against mirrored or log-shipped content databases, or it can be part of a highly available maintenance or patching environment that provides user access while another version of the farm is being updated.

Use the variationsfixuptool operation   This article describes how to use the Stsadm variationsfixuptool operation, which lets farm administrators control and perform operations against variations.

Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting for future releases (Office SharePoint Server)   This article describes how to use the Stsadm preupgradecheck operation to scan farm servers before starting an upgrade to ensure that some upgrade prerequisites are met and to detect known issues that can prevent the upgrade from completing successfully. The results of the scan enable you to address any issues that are identified.

Preupgradecheck: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This operation runs rules that are intended to assist administrators in preparing for upgrade.

Enumallwebs: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)  This operation displays the IDs and site map status for all site collections and subsites in the content database.

Variationsfixuptool: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This operation lets an administrator control the different versions—or variations—of a publishing site or page.

Listqueryprocessoroptions: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This operation displays the current values of the SharePoint Search query processor settings.

Setqueryprocessoroptions: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)  This operation sets the current values of the SharePoint Search query processor settings.

Troubleshoot content deployment   This article provides guidance around troubleshooting common issues with content deployment.

Updated Service Pack 2 articles   The following articles have all been updated with new information for Service Pack 2:

• SharePoint Timer job reference (Office SharePoint Server)

• Helping users make successful queries (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage authentication for the Business Data Catalog

• Plan authentication settings for Web applications in Office SharePoint Server

• Configure forms-based authentication (Office SharePoint Server)

• Plan browser support (Office SharePoint Server)

• Create an installation source that includes software updates (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Updated Stsadm operations   The following Stsadm operations have been updated with Service Pack 2 information:

• Deletesite: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

• Deleteweb: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

• Backup: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

• Setsitelock: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

Administer content deployment   This section has been updated to include information about using content deployment. The updates cover such issues as when to use full and incremental deployments; storage location for temporary files used by export; feature activation; risks of using both the Content Deployment UI and the Stsadm import operation; and recommendations for when the schedule jobs.

Determine sites and subsites   This article has been updated to include a note about deleting automatically created items from a site collection when that site collection will be used with content deployment.

Plan content deployment   This article has been updated to include guidance about when to use full and incremental deployments.

IFilters and protocol handlers (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   The crawler in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 uses protocol handlers to access content and then IFilters to extract content from files that are crawled. The articles in this section describe IFilters and protocol handlers that are included by default in a Office SharePoint Server 2007 installation and describe how you can install and register additional IFilters and protocol handlers.

Add content sources (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   The settings that you specify in a content source tell the crawler where it can find content, how to access the content, and how to behave when it is crawling the content. New articles in this section include:

• About content sources (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Configure searches to return blog post results (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Configure client certificates for crawling an SSL site (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Uninstall Office SharePoint Server 2007   This article has been updated to include information about when and how to uninstall language packs when uninstalling Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Still have questions regarding upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007? http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/)   This post contains a list of recent articles that have been updated to reflect customer feedback and incorporate solutions to common troubleshooting issues.