Zach Rosenfield, A SharePoint Program Manager, has a good post on his blog announcing the release of SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0. This toolkit now provides the ability to more easily create highly available SSPs and to sync User Profiles between geographically dispersed SSP farms. For full...
If you haven't heard, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will be using SharePoint 2007 to provide search capabilities to their INFO 2008 portal. This portal provides partners and media with updated news and results from the various events. According to the case study more than 20,000 users will be using...
If you haven’t heard the news already,SharePoint Magazine officially launched last week. I would highly recommend checking out the site at http://www.sharepointmagazine.net . You can also subscribe to the feed via RSS or email.
Looking for a quick start guide to SharePoint development? Look no further. Microsoft is hosting what it calls a "Fire Starter" event on the Redmond campus on June 11th. This one day event is aimed at helping developers gain expertise in developing on the SharePoint platform. For full details including...
The SharePoint team has posted some nice posters that document the stsadm command line parameters. This is a must have for SharePoint Admins. Check them out. Source: SharePoint Product Group Blog...
Sahil Malik over at WinSmarts has released a very cool RSS aggregator for SharePoint. Yes, this includes WSS 3.0. This is a great option if you are using WSS, but want to provide the option to add RSS feeds to your sites. I'd post some more details if it wasn't 3am. I need sleep so I'll let let you visit...
Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 to Search Server 2008 Express
Collaboration 9 CommentsIf you haven't been keeping up with what's going on at this year's SharePoint Conference, you should know that Microsoft has announced the release of Search Server Express (Free). I decided to post the following guidance on upgrading WSS 3.0 to Search Server Express. 1. First things first. Test this...
Microsoft SharePoint Team Announces Availability of CKS: Enhanced Blog Edition
Collaboration No CommentsThe Microsoft SharePoint Team has announced that the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 is now available for download on CodePlex. The Enhanced Blog Edition allows you to easily setup SharePoint to host professional looking blogs with little or no customization. The CKS includes...
If you haven't seen this yet, the External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint has been released. This solution accelerator provides guidance and software for deploying a SharePoint environment externally. If you are looking at SharePoint as an extranet solution, this is a must read. Download: Microsoft...
Have you been looking for a way to train end-users on how to use SharePoint? Do you struggle with providing simple instructions on performing day-to-day tasks within SharePoint? If you answered yes to either of these I highly recommend that you check out Rob Bogue's new book The SharePoint Shepherd's...
