August 2008 - Community -

Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library

[Cross-posted from Randall Isenhour's blog .] Hello SharePoint Developers! We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0! In our never-ending efforts...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 7:00 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: Developers, Source Code, SDK

Announcing the SharePoint Best Practices Series

Over the last few months, the SharePoint product team has released a number of resources, updates and made supportability announcements to help our customers and partners deploy SharePoint solutions. Recently, we released the Infrastructure Update that...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 11:51 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: Developers, IT Pros, Planning, Deployment, Whitepaper, SharePoint Training ITPro, Announcements, Best Practice

The Blind Men and the Cloud

Hilarious poem by Sam Charrington highlighting the difficulty of nailing down a definition of cloud computing. The Blind Men and the Cloud It was six men of Info Tech To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Cloud (Though all of them were blind...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 1:14 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: cloud computing

SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 is Now Available!

[Cross-posted from Zach Rosenfield's blog .] I’m excited to announce that the second version of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit is available for download! As I said back in April , we would be offering regular updates to this toolkit...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 8:41 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: My Sites, Planning, Administration, Global

Using Excel & Excel Services with SQL Server Analysis Services 2008

[Cross-posted from Excel Team Blog .] With the recent announcement of SharePoint Server 2007 supporting SQL Server 2008 , like you, I was excited to setup my Excel / Excel Services environment to take advantage of the great new capabilities available...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 3:14 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: Business Intelligence, SQL, Excel Services

What Wealth Doesn't Buy -- Thinking Beyond the Money

In the summer of 2006, Ric Weiland , one of Microsoft's first 5 employees--one who in fact had once been asked by Bill and Paul to be the company's third founding partner--died in his Seattle home, according to the county medical examiner, from...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 1:22 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

A Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package is available for Windows Server 2003

Just wanted to post a quick note that yesterday we have released a new Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package for Windows Server 2003 . This is all in relation to a blog post on the subject that we have posted a while ago. Mike has posted...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 9:20 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks

Announcing the “How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft” white paper

I'm very proud to announce that the "How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft" white paper is now available for public download here . Over the past 12 months, I’ve met with many customers and received...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 7:03 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: Web 2.0, Customer Evidence, Whitepaper, Enterprise 2.0

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 issue on Windows SharePoint Services v2.0

In case you have installed .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 on a machine which hosts Windows SharePoint Services v2.0 website running on .Net Framework 2.0, you will notice the following problems. Windows SharePoint Services v3 is not affected by the update. Symptoms...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:17 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: WSS 2.0, .NET Framework

CTO Interview—Tu Nguyen, DOCCENTER

Tu Nguyen always believed in the promise of document management. After winning the Microsoft 2003 Imagine Cup programming competition, a lot changed for him. Inspired while working in his parents' Vietnamese restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, Nguyen developed...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 4:38 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Saving Power with Solid State Storage

As Green IT becomes increasingly sexy, there has been much chatter about the power savings that solid state storage can bring into the datacenter. Does this make economic sense, or is it yet another case of greenwashing? Let’s walk through some napkin...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 1:00 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Storage, SSD, Green Datacenter, Solid State Storage, Datacenter, Green IT

VSS Troubleshooting

There have been some blogs on VSS backups in the past. Over last few months, we have worked on several cases where troubleshooting VSS was required. Seeing that the documentation around how to troubleshoot this is somewhat lacking, we decided to put together...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 11:04 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Storage

TechNet Webcast - MCS Talks Enterprise Architecture session 3 - Messaging

The third session in the MCS Talks Infrastructure Architecture Webcast series will build on the previous sessions by sharing MCS field experience of how messaging solutions are being implemented today. Enterprises face many decisions when deploying Microsoft...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 6:47 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Webcast

Voice Mail and Discoverability with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging

Exchange 2007 was the first release of Exchange to include Unified Messaging (UM) and this was the first time many of our customers started considering replacing their existing voice mail systems with UM. As with any new technology, many have sent in...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 12:27 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Transport & Routing, Unified Messaging

The Benefits of Piracy

To say I was surprised would be putting it mildly – apparently you can watch full-length episodes of most anime series for free at various websites (according to my anime-addicted buddy). If any website tried to pull the same stunt with say, Disney’s...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 1:53 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: piracy, digital media, bigchampagne, manga, anime

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