Business Contact Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (BCM 2007 SP2)

In case you haven't heard by now, Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has been released by Microsoft. You can download them from the links in this post by the Office Sustained Engineering Team

One item that isn't included on that page is the link to download Business Contact Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 or BCM 2007 SP2. I strongly suggest you install the Office 2007 SP2 update before updating Business Contact Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 or BCM 2007 SP2. You can find the installation package for Business Contact Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 or BCM 2007 SP2 by going to the following link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=405aa7e9-e63b-447b-a49b-d4cbd8eea30d

Hopefully it resolves some common BCM problems.

SharePoint Site Themes

Microsoft has released Ten Themes for SharePoint but in order to use them you need to compile them into their solution files. Waste of time.

Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a87658f-20b8-4dcc-ad7a-09ad22641f3a

So I did it for you. Here are the ten SharePoint Themes as solution files. SharePoint Themes

You need to deploy them as solutions and then each has a feature that needs to be activated to apply the theme to the site. They are Site Features. Enjoy!

SharePoint February Cumulative Update Available

Install WSS first then MOSS then run the SharePoint Configuration wizard.

WSS - KB961755

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961755&kbln=en-us

MOSS - KB96156

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961756&kbln=en-us

This SharePoint February cumulative update addresses many issues including the Email Enabled Lists problem in my previous post.

SharePoint Email Enabled Lists Unknown Alias

Try installing the hotfix or wait for the February Cumulative Update that includes this hotfix. Once it comes out I'm going to install it and will let everyone know whether the problem reoccurs after the update.

The entries for e-mail-enabled lists are being deleted from the EmailEnabledLists table in the configuration database. When this issue occurs, incoming e-mail messages for these lists are not delivered. Therefore, the e-mail messages are deleted, and errors are logged for "Unkown alias."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961750

Programmatically start SharePoint search crawl

Simple code sample on how to programmatically start a SharePoint search crawl through code. I haven't had a use for this yet but it's good to know that search crawls can be started easily.

http://weblogs.asp.net/vikram/archive/2009/02/27/starting-an-incremental-crawl-in-share-point-programmatically.aspx

Test Website with mulitple browsers without installing them

Check this site out for all your vitual browser needs. It does require that you download an executable but the exe isn't an install of the browser. It's just used to mimic the browser without installation. 

http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/

SharePoint Email Enabled Lists

The query below when run against the SharePoint content database(s) will display the email alias and the name of the associated list. Hopefully, from the list name you should know where it resides or you can at least search your SharePoint site for it. 

SELECT    tp_EmailAlias as EmailAlias,

tp_Title as ListTitle

FROM        AllLists

INNER JOIN  Webs ON AllLists.tp_WebId = Webs.Id

WHERE       tp_EmailAlias <> ''