SharePoint: How does MOSS know the user has InfoPath installed?

Your browser tells a web server a lot of stuff about you each time you visit a web site. These include the browser version, Windows version, screen resolution and colors, .Net version installed and if you have InfoPath.

Here's a sample of what is sent as part of the User-Agent string:

• User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)

What can we tell from this example:

• Internet Explorer 6.0 (MSIE 6.0)
• Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
• InfoPath 2007 (InfoPath.2)
• 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 .Net runtimes installed (.NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)

Here's another user:

• User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)

Very similar, but is using Internet Explorer 7.0 and only has .Net 1.1 and 2.0 installed.


This one is interesting in that it is coming from a server (maybe):

• User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; SV1)

Windows NT 5.2 is either Windows Server 2003, XP Professional 64 Bit, or Windows Home Server. (Interesting reuse of a version number!) One other note, the user in this example is running a 32 bit version of IE 6.0 on a 64 bit machine. WOW64 = Windows-on-Windows 64-bit.

And this one is from a FireFox 2.0 user:

• User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

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SharePoint 2007 Links - Features, Migration, Management Tools

MOSS Service Accounts

The Microsoft article: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f07768d4-ca37-447a-a056-1a67d93ef5401033.mspx?mfr=true

A short and easy article on accounts: http://cregan.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/moss-setup-service-accounts/

Sample Features

Two simple and cool features: Print Page Feature - adds a new item to the Actions menu to display and print a clean view of a list. Windows List Feature - adds a new links list template with options to open in a new window and to control sizing and menu options. And a bunch more... https://mail.maxtrain.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.codeplex.com/features/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2502

Alternate Access Mappings

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 1 of 3) https://mail.maxtrain.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/06/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-1.aspx

2003 to 2007 Migrations Cornelius J. van Dyk's SharePoint Brain Dump: Step-by-Step – A REAL world upgrade of a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) farm to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=107

MOSS Planning:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Deployment Plan Sample (MS Project)http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=101328&clcid=0x409 HP ProLiant Sizer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007http://h71019.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0-0-0-121.html

Migration Tools:

Migration tools, both 2003 to 2007 and 2007 to 2007 (for staging to production deployments)

metaLogic SharePoint Site Migration Manager http://www.metalogix.net/products/migrationmanagersp/index.htm

AvePoint DocAve 4.1 Migrator for SharePoint (also supports Exchange public folders to 2003 or 2007) http://www.avepoint.com/products/sharepoint-migration

ecKnowledge (also has tools to migration to/from Notes and other products)http://www.casahl.com/Solutions/SharePointSolutions.html

Microsoft Transporter for Lotus DominoResources for Interoperability and Migration from Lotus Domino http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/interopmigration/bb403105.aspx Proposion Software Notes/Domino to SharePointhttp://www.proposion.com/site/proposion.nsf/pages/SharePoint

SharePoint Management Tools

COOL free TOOL! Discovery Wizard for Sharepoint Freewarehttp://www.quest.com/2_0/registration.aspx?requestdefid=8286

Quest - Microsoft SharePoint Tools for the Enterprise http://www.quest.com/sharepoint/

AvePoint - DocAve 4.1 Content Manager for SharePoint http://www.avepoint.com/products/sharepoint-content-management

Universal SharePoint Manager 2007Environment (Farm) Reporting, User Site Security Analyzer, User List/Item Security Analyzer, Add User http://www.idevfactory.com/products/uspm2007/

Site Security, Remove User Site Security, Clone User Site Security http://www.idevfactory.com/products/uspm2007/default.aspx

ScriptLogic Security Explorer for SharePoint
http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/security-explorer/sharepoint/

New SharePoint Links - Install, Upgrade, Tools

Must have links: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog The official blog of the SharePoint Product Group http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx

MSDN Forums » SharePoint Products and Technologies http://mssharepointforums.com/

Service Accounts:

The base accounts needed for SharePoint MOSS http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-1-base-configuration-for-sharepoint.aspx

The Microsoft article: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f07768d4-ca37-447a-a056-1a67d93ef5401033.mspx?mfr=true

A short and easy article on accounts: http://cregan.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/moss-setup-service-accounts/

Version comparisions...

Web page: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/FX101758691033.aspx Excel file: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/d/c/1dc632e8-71e1-466f-8a2f-c940f1438e0a/SharePointProductsComparison.xls

Install and Upgrade links Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007 http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/94c49b6d-527e-4387-9557-8cfe8b55ede91033.mspx?mfr=true

Setting up Forms Based Authentication http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/02/23/Office_SharePoint_Server_2007_Forms_Based_Authentication_FBA_Walkthrough_Part_1.aspx

Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 1 - Base Configuration for SharePoint http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-1-base-configuration-for-sharepoint.aspx

Which server should host Central Administration (and how to move it) http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/10/which-server-the-sharepoint-central-administration-web-site-should-be-installed-on-and-how-to-move-it-there.aspx

Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server) http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/0a7b2b45-f633-46d2-a4fd-78691d4b8f631033.mspx?mfr=true

Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server) http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/6a13cd9f-4b44-40d6-85aa-c70a8e5c34fe1033.mspx?mfr=true

Internet/Extranet/Intranet, etc. Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1cffb278-6497-46fc-abd0-3dd652064c891033.mspx?mfr=true

More links here: Scale, Performance, and Capacity Planning http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/08/scale-performance-and-capacity-planning.aspx

Tool and Features

Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/04/30/microsoft-it-site-delete-capture-1-0.aspx

SharePoint Tools: SharePoint 2007 Tools Collection v2 (very insteresting list of tools here) http://blogs.msdn.com/walterst/archive/2007/06/20/sharepoint-2007-tools-collection-v2.aspx

Other links

Using Grove with SharePoint http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/2/2/822feaaa-5b56-48aa-9444-e85d49c99756/Microsoft%20Office%20Groove%20and%20SharePoint%20Integration.doc

Using OneNote with SharePoint http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/02/onenote-and-sharepoint.aspx

SharePoint books http://workerthread.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/sharepoint-books-my-recommendations/

Real world Examples

Dell MOSS White paper http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/casestudies/2007_DellOnSharepoint.pdf

SharePoint Backup links

SharePoint Backup Links Backup and Restore Strategies in MOSS 2007 http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-10-Backup_and_Restore_Strategies_in_MOSS_2007.aspx

SharePoint Designer Links

MSDN Documentation for Designer http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb291001.aspx Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428899.aspx Sharepoint 2007 - Development and Engineering Practices http://teamfoundationserver.org/Web/blogs/sharepoint_2007/archive/2007/08/20/523.aspx SharePoint Designer vs. Visual Studio http://markegilbert.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/sharepoint-designer-vs-visual-studio/