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June 03 MOSS connectorsMay 21 Register for the SharePoint Introduction for .NET developers webcast series
Register for the SharePoint Introduction for .NET developers webcast series
In this 10-part series, you will receive practical technical information from Robert Bogue and Andrew Connell, Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), covering 10 fundamental developer topics on SharePoint Products and Technologies via Live Meeting Webcast. About the series: · Every Tuesday and Wednesday from May 20 to June 18 · Starts at 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time) · 60 minutes long
Click on the Register Today! links to learn more about the specifics covered in each webcast
Date Webcast Title and Topics May 18 Partner solution: KWizCom Wiki SharePoint-integrated Enterprise Wiki .According to their website:
KWizCom SharePoint 2007 Wiki Plus is an advanced, comprehensive and complete Wiki solution for SharePoint. Its unique additional features make it the ideal tool for true crossorganization knowledge
sharing.
Wiki Plus supports MOSS 2007 standard and enterprise editions. May 15 Enterprise Search blog
Enterprise Search blog
Make sure to check it out and book mark it: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/default.aspx
May 07 Announcing Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0!Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0—Simplifying IT Service Management
We are thrilled to announce the release of Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0.
MOF 4.0 applies service management concepts to the tasks and challenges IT professionals face every day. The guidance it provides puts IT pros in the spotlight—it
speaks to their needs and provides them with job aids to help them make sound decisions. MOF 4.0 features guidance specifically written to help CIOs, IT directors, IT managers, and IT professionals at all levels plan, deliver, operate, and manage IT services
across the lifecycle.
In version 4.0, MOF introduces a new structure that puts emphasis on outcomes, results, and roles in a format that’s easy to reference. Because every group, team,
and company is unique, the service management functions (SMFs) in MOF 4.0 are anchored by questions that support the decision-making process within an organization. This new, streamlined approach makes it possible to use either the entire framework or just
one component of the framework to solve a particular problem.
The practical guidance in MOF 4.0 features processes; governance, risk, and compliance activities; management reviews; and best practices from Microsoft Solutions
Framework (MSF). Finally, to ensure industry alignment, MOF 4.0 supports the best practices found in frameworks such as ITIL, CoBIT, and ISO 20000.
The new release of MOF offers concise, practical guidance across the IT lifecycle, but it doesn’t stop there. Another very important element of version 4.0 is our
online community: a platform where IT professionals can contribute their own timely, relevant recommendations for achieving reliable, cost-effective IT services…and benefit from the contributions of their peers.
What You Should Do Next
Download MOF 4.0 now at www.microsoft.com/MOF, then join the online
MOF community. See what you can contribute—and what you can gain—by participating in forums and blogs, providing feedback, and supporting other IT professionals.
March 14 New SharePoint Tech Readiness update...
March 09 tools that help IT engage end users and stimulate SharePoint adoption:
February 24 DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit is now available for downloadThe DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit is now available for download. Please keep in mind that this download provides the means to learn about the DoD 5015.2 capabilities delivered while deciding if it is suitable for their organizational requirements.
It is not for production use. If customers want to move to production, they must go through a partner (please refer to below for explanation).
The DoD 5015.2 VPC with extensive Hands-on Lab manual is coming shortly. Should be up internally next week.
February 03 Faceted Search on CodePlex
Faceted Search on CodePlex
Announcement of the 2.0 release of Faceted Search for MOSS and MSS2008. MOSS Faceted Search extension is a set of web parts that provide an intuitive, user friendly way to refine search results by predefined categories, or facets. It can be used at ecommerce, document discovery, people search, etc.
Announcing Sonar Lite - Performance Measurement for SharePoint
Announcing Sonar Lite - Performance Measurement for SharePoint
From the author of the tool: One of the most frustrating aspects of SharePoint administration and development is the inability to get any sort of granular performance metrics for page objects (especially web parts). SharePoint can be a finicky beast - configure a setting wrong here, make the wrong object model call there, and performance slows to a crawl. Identifying which objects on a page are causing performance bottlenecks is more art than science, requiring a great deal of back and forth between development and IT, resulting in a tremendous amount of finger-pointing and lost productivity.
To meet this need we have created the Sonar suite of performance measurement tools for SharePoint. Sonar bridges the gap between the utilization reporting capabilities of MOSS 2007 and third-party analytic solutions by providing real-time component-level performance information for pages within a MOSS or WSS site collection. By delivering performance statistics at the object level, Sonar allows developers, administrators and IT support personnel to isolate and identify the root cause of page performance bottlenecks with high degree of certainty. By analyzing performance information at the server – before it is rendered to the client – Sonar can pinpoint trouble areas independent of the browser type, network connection or regional location of the user.
Sonar Lite, the first product in the Sonar suite of performance measurement tools for SharePoint, can be downloaded and installed in minutes on any MOSS 2007 or WSS v3 server. It employs a lightweight architecture that analyzes page performance in real-time without impacting overall application performance or placing undue stress on the server. Best of all, it leverages the SharePoint solution (.wsp) and feature framework to make deployment, installation and removal simple and hassle-free.
We created Sonar to serve our own needs as well as those of our customers and partners. As developers, we need tools that can help us insure that the code we write is as performant as possible. Our customers want assurances that their systems are operating under optimal parameters and that when performance issues do arise they can be effectively isolated and dealt with swiftly.
We're betting that you feel the same way and will want to give Sonar Lite a try, so we're offering it for a limited time as a free download. No trial period. No expiration date. Just free software to help insure that your SharePoint farm is performing up to its potential. Just don't call us if you misconfigure your app pools or try to host 10,000 sites on a single box using SQL express - we're developers not miracle workers!
Get all the Sonar information here (downloads, demos, screen shots, user manual, marketing stuff, and even a cool Silverlight intro - how 'bout that?). Let us know what you think of Sonar Lite. Post a comment, email us, or share your thoughts in the Sonar forums. Good, bad or indifferent, we want to hear it (really, we do).
January 30 Microsoft System Center Virtual Application Server Branch Configuration GuideStreaming multiple concurrent applications across a wide-area network presents potential issues in terms of application launch times and WAN availability. These issues can be mitigated by implementing Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Application Branch
Servers. This document gives a basic orientation of the components and considerations necessary for such an architecture.
Microsoft System Center Virtual Application Server Branch Configuration
Guide
(Available for download as: PDF) January 27 Great tool: AutorunsThis utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These
programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services,
and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.
Autoruns' Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured
on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.
You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!
Autoruns works on all versions of Windows including 64-bit versions.
January 05 New SharePoint whitepapersannounce the public availability of the SharePoint product selection and deployment scenarios whitepaper.
December 13 Serge Lenbet moving into ATS role for Commerical Sector DubaiAfter working as a Consultant and TSP on a variety of products (lately with strong focus on MOSS) I would like to announce to you that I have decided to shift my career into another role at Microsoft which is the account technology specialist role starting
1st of January 2008. My colleague Bassem Aamer (who is based in Kuwait will continue and we are in the progress of recruiting for a suitable TSP SharePoint based in Dubai). My new role in its nature is to work with specific
CAS accounts, understand their requirements, complete their IO profiling and map them to products/solutions and orchestrating various resources along the selling cycle till we reach a win/deployment. Therefore the blog articles here will likely switch to more
general subjects in the future, too.
December 09 YourEgo.com Search Tool BetaCooool:
November 20 TechNet Virtual Lab: Forefront Security for SharePointMake sure to check this out and also download the trial to get going J
November 04 Cool: SharePointPedia 1.0 goes live at http://sharepointpedia.comReally cool!!! Make sure to check it out
October 29 Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS)Very interesting initiative:
Microsoft partners who deliver SDPS engagements enjoy strategic advantages in the competitive SharePoint market:
October 22 SharePoint skinnerDisplaying Custom Fields in Content Query Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007Cool, we got quite a lot of requests around this so this is an updated link:
Previous blog:
October 18 External SharePoint--HardeningCOOOL:Microsoft Partners with Atlassian & NewsGator - SharePoint Goes Web 2.0Wikis and Blogs are still not that widely adopted in my region here (referring to enterprise level) it is getting more and more attention. We are getting slowly also requests from our customers here on the social computing scenarios around MOSS and are
being compared to others on this area. I think this announcement is very interesting:
Check also out: http://www.newsgator.com/
October 16 External storage API for MOSS/WSSInteresting news:
An external storage API is available for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The external storage API lets you store documents or files on an external storage device other than Microsoft SQL Server. This
API also lets you upgrade existing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites to point to an external storage device.
MORE INFORMATION
To use this external storage API, you must install hotfix 937901. For more information about hotfix 937901, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
937901 Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 25, 2007
Interesting tools and info around MOSS
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