Shared Services Best Practise

Most people know that SSP best practise is to to have only 1 instance.

However I heard it phrased well in OFC222 screen cast -

Start with one SPP and make people convince you why you will need more than 1

Mobile - Headless Device

I heard a new terminology today.

A headless device.

Never heard this before - it turns out to be a device without a display.

Nice term.

Mobile Devices - Emulator can be Accesd programatically

I have just realised that the emulator can be accessed programmatically. This is good news - the terminology that Microsoft use is "Managed Core Connectivity Wrapper" or "Managed CoreCon"

reference is Microsoft.Smartdevice.Connectivity.dll

Mobile VS2008 Security Manager

Good news to see VS2008 for Mobile has security management to facilitate testing against Mobile devices. This is required as Mobile Computers come with a lot of different security management.

Under Tools / Device Security Manager - we can set configurations that reflect the windows mobile device.

It also has certificate management.

Sharepoint SP 1 error

While installing WSS SP1 my virtual machine appeared to Hang. I eventually had toi shut down. On restarting, and trying to rerun the installation I was informed that the WSS SP1 had already been run. I the tried to install Moss SP1 but alas, I got another message informing me that there was already an installation occurring.

When I went to Sharepoint Central Admin - I got the error message regarding missing confifugarion database.

To the rescue:-

psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force

I checked the upgrade.log in wss12 path and at the bottom found

SPFarm=, recursive = True, 0 errors and warnings encountered

Now I only wish Microsoft could easily show us that SP1 has been installed.