The SDK updates in 1.4 include:
• New Federated Search Samples:
o Custom Federated Search Web Part with a Credentials UI (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
o Federated Search SQL Server Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
o Federated Search HTML to RSS Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
o Federated Search Virtual Earth Map Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
• Updated documentation files, including updated, offline versions of MSDN Library Technical Articles and Developer Guides
o What’s New in the MOSS SDK 1.4 Documentation
o What’s New in the WSS SDK 1.4 Documentation
• Lots of new documentation for Records Management APIs.
o Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.Holds
o Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy
o Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures
o Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.RecordsRepository
o Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.Reporting
o Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.SearchAndProcess

MOSS SDK 1.4 DOWNLOAD
WSS SDK 1.4 DOWNLOAD

Installing the Adobe PDF Ifilter (V6) on MOSS 2007


Download the Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0 from here

Stop the IIS Admin service: Start > Run > Services.msc > Stop the IIS Admin Service


Run the Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0 Setup program (ifilter60.exe) to install the filter on the server.


Copy a GIF that you would like to use as an icon (16X16) in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images".


Edit the file C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml\DOCICON.XML .

Add an entry for the .pdf extension.
<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="icpdf.gif"/>


Perform an “iisreset” or recycle the SharePoint Application Pools.


Add the .pdf file type to the index list:

a) Go to Central Administration, then to the Shared Services Administration Web of the current SSP, go to Search Settings and next to File Type.

b) Add the new file type “pdf”.
Perform a Full Update on the Search content indexes.


Microsoft KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832809, but I passed when i encountered step 8.

So if you need to perform maintenance on a farm, you "quiesce" it. IMHO, something like "Take Farm Offline" would have been a better choice.

Why should you use the quiesce feature?

Simply put, to prevent data loss.

How do you quiesce the farm?

1. From Central Administration, Operations, select "Quiesce Farm."

2. Enter the number of minutes in which you want the farm to be fully quiesced and click "Start Quiescing."

3. The page will display the quiescing status. [From Microsoft] "Quiescing has three states: normal, quiescing, and quiesced. Normal is the active state in which the farm handles all requests that come into it. Quiescing is the state in which the farm only handles requests from existing sessions, and quiesced is the state in which the farm does not allow any new sessions to start."

How do you "un-quiesce" (reset) a farm:

1. From Central Administration, Operations, select "Quiesce Farm."

2. Click "Reset Farm." Why couldn't they have come up with an obscure word for "reset?"

You may already be aware of the recent RTM announcement of SQL Server 2008.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 now support SQL Server 2008.

The documentation has been updated to include support for SQL Server 2008.

Please refer to:

WSS 3.0
MOSS 2007

In the next few weeks, they will publish a TechNet article that describes the benefits of running SQL Server 2008 with SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Here, they’ve highlighted a few of the benefits that SharePoint customers inherit when choosing to use SQL Server 2008:

1. Improved Manageability
Manageability and governance is important for SharePoint as well as the SQL Server database engine. Now administrators can also benefit from the new management features introduced in SQL Server 2008 – from Policy-based administration to back-up compression. For details, please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 100).aspx.

2. High Availability
Availability in SQL Server 2008 has been improved through enhancements in data mirroring. For details, please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 100).aspx.

3. Enhanced Data Security
The SQL Server 2008 database engine introduced new encryption functions that enhance security. SharePoint administrators can take advantage of these new encryption features by simply turning on transparent data encryption (TDE). No additional changes need to be made on the SharePoint side. For details, please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 100).aspx.

Last but not least, don’t forget to apply SP1 on SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Keep in mind, SP1 is also a requirement for installing on Windows Server 2008.

Here you are:

• VS 2008 SP1 download
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 download