Advanced Search Web Part Problem after SP1

After applying SP1 for MOSS we found that the Advanced Search Web Part doesnt work if you have the 'Show Properties' option unselected. It displays the error;

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

A frantic google later and i came across the hotfix pack for February 08 which contains a somewhat suprising number of fixes and ultimately my ray of light : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948947/en-us

So overall lesson when applying SP1 - make sure you grab the post SP1 Hot Fixes. Spence Harbar has a nice cumulative list over on his blog.

'Open Mike' - May 5th 2008

Sydney SharePoint User Group is pleased to bring back Mike Fitzmaurice to Australia– Monday May 5th 2008 Would you like to find out; How can you leverage Microsoft Office SharePoint technologies to provide a platform for collaboration, ECM, search, BI and social computing? The interoperability with MOSS and other line of business applications such as SAP? How SharePoint and Office can be the people friendly face of service oriented architecture? Well we’ve got just the man to answer those burning questions... Microsoft’s Mike Fitzmaurice, Enterprise Technology Strategist and former Technical Product manager for WSS/MOSS, has kindly agreed to hold a lunch time ‘Open Mike’ session when he visits Sydney in May. We look forward to seeing you there! Please click here to register for this event. Registration opens at 12:30pm and the Q&A session commence at 1:00pm. The May User Group will be held at the Microsoft’s office, 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, Sydney. Food & Refreshments will be provided. ‘Open Mike’ – Mike Fitzmaurice Q&A Date: Monday May 5th 2008 Time: 12:30-2:00pm

Visit http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/sydney for further information.

Mike Fitzmaurice is an Enterprise Technology Strategist at Microsoft, advising customers, partners, and Microsoft teams on portal, collaboration, and search technology. He spent the past five years as a Technical Product Manager for Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server, focused on developer evangelism and interoperability issues. He joined Microsoft Corp. in December 1997 as a senior consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services, overseeing several development initiatives involving Exchange Server and SharePoint technology for a wide range of customers. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters.

Sydney SharePoint User Group April

Emailing MOSS!

In this session, presented by SharePoint MVP Kathy Hughes, we’ll look at managing and integrating e-mails with MOSS sites, including Exchange 2007 managed folders (journaling feature), the latest Colligo Contributor (3.0) and e-mailing document libraries and lists directly. We’ll consider security, metadata, offline access, e-mail attachments and server and client considerations. We’ll also look at the pros and cons of different types of e-mail formats.

Date: Tuesday, 15th April 2008
Start time : 17.30
End time: 19.30
Venue: Unique World, Level 14, 24 Campbell St Sydney

For further details on the Sydney SharePoint User Group check out the website http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/Sydney/default.aspx

New WCM Site : http://www.agl.com.au

The company I work for, UniqueWorld, have recently deployed another WCM solution on MOSS.

Check it out @ http://www.agl.com.au I'm sure you'll agree its a pretty hot looking site ;-)

The design is courtesy of a 3rd Party design agency http://www.newgency.com.au/ so further proof of the ability to skin SharePoint Sites so that they don't look like SharePoint Sites!

Well done to all the guys on the implementation!

Sydney SharePoint User Group February

Continuing with the 100% MVP speaker precedence for 2008 ;-) this months user group sees MOSS MVP Kathy Hughes presenting on the Business Intelligence features within MOSS.

We’ll cover the built-in BI features, such as the Report Centre, Excel Services and integration with Office Excel and Access, as well as extended BI features introduced through Reporting Services, SQL Server 2005 and the latest Microsoft BI offering, PerformancePoint Server 2007.

As always the pizza is on us! See you there.

Date: Tuesday, 19th February 2008
Start time : 17.30
End time: 19.30
Venue: Unique World, Level 14, 24 Campbell St Sydney

For further details on the Sydney SharePoint User Group check out the website http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/Sydney/default.aspx

Sydney SharePoint User Group January

The first user group session for 2008 sees SharePoint MVP Ivan Wilson presenting on Site Collections and their Owners.

Ivan will cover many different aspects - from how to administer Site Collections, to deciding how many you should have.

Date: Tuesday, 15th January 2008
Start time : 17.30
End time: 19.30
Venue: Unique World, Level 14, 24 Campbell St Sydney

For further details on the Sydney SharePoint User Group check out the website http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/Sydney/default.aspx