Jason Madero has done a post about setting up and publishing Excel Services in MOSS 2007.
His guide will walk you through the steps from configuring your server all the way through publishing and displaying an Excel workbook in the Excel Web Access web part.
Excel services is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) feature that can be very effective for a company who is looking to share, secure, and manage Excel 2007 workbooks.
Read his guide at source.
Sahil Malik has writen a good article about ASP.NET 2.0 and WebParts.
This article discusses WebPart framework basics, which can serve as the foundation for more advanced topics such as WebPart support in MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007).
Read the full article at source.
SharePoint Services is a royalty free add-on to Windows Server 2003, and provides business users with multiple web site provisioning, collaboration tools, and document management functionality. Moreover, WSS is a rich development platform providing much added functionality on top of ASP.NET. Version 3.0 is currently in Beta 2 and set to replace the current version 2.0 of WSS in the later part of 2006.
Want to know more about the new Windows SharePoint Services version, then Rob Garrett has writen some nice articles about Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
SPEAK (SharePoint External Account administration Kit) provides a set of webparts and pages to administrate SharePoint/WSS-accounts when using a custom authentication provider like e.g. AspNetSqlMembershipProvider.
Read more at source.
Microsoft released 2 patches yesterday which are IIS related.
MS06-033: Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure (917283)
Severity: Important
Only affecting – .NET Framework 2.0
MS06-034: Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services using Active Server Pages Could Allow Remote Code Execution (917537)
Severity: Important
If you are using ASP for IIS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0
Download the patches here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-033.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-034.mspx
See Microsoft for a complete list of July security bulletins.
The Microsoft.com Operations team has published the unedited audio from their webcasts and it’s now available as MSCOM Ops Podcasts.
Read their post about it on the MSCOM Ops blog.
Chris Crowe has updated his list with IIS Podcasts from Channel9.msdn.com.
Brett Hill, IIS Technical Evangelist for Microsoft hosts this podcast show dedicated exclusively to IIS. Every two weeks, expect a new podcast featuring members of the IIS 7 product team and other key players in IIS technology.
See Chris full list of all the Podcasts or listen online or download in WMA or MP3 format at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/IIS_Show.
Neosmart has posted a review on Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3.
Since Windows Vista was first announced, for many users Internet Explorer 7 was actually the big reward: a new version of what used to be the world’s favorite browser, and – for the most part – they weren’t disappointed. Despite the progress issues in Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 has been coming along fine, and this new version brings its (Lion’s) share of features and improvements. In short, this browser has come a long way and promises to put up a real fight against the competition that only so recently overtook IE7, namely the latest versions of Firefox and Opera.
Read the full review Here.
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