SQL Remote Blob Storage Team Blog

This is another feature used by SharePoint 2010 which will be important in storage/performance optimization.

Microsoft beefs up its hosted Exchange/SharePoint suite | NetworkWorld.com Community

Microsoft beefs up its hosted Exchange/SharePoint suite NetworkWorld.com Community: "Microsoft beefs up its hosted Exchange/SharePoint suite"

patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance

Project Description

Microsoft develop guidance to help devs and architects build applications on SharePoint. The second version of guidance expanded coverage to LOB integration, content driven applications, and adding enterprise qualities to your SharePoint applications. The release includes a library of reusable components, a guide, and a new reference implementation of a Partner Portal application. It expands upon the first release which delivered a Training Management application, and guidance around unit testing SharePoint, fundamental design and implementation decisions, and how to setup team development environments with SharePoint.

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=spg

Developing SharePoint Applications - from Patterns and Practices

Developing SharePoint Applications
Guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems

Summary
The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scaleable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise. The two reference implementations illustrate how to solve many of the common challenges developers encounter. One reference implementation addresses basic issues such as creating lists and content types. The other addresses more advanced problems such as how to integrate line of business services, how to create collaboration sites programmatically, and how to customize aspects of publishing and navigation. A library of reusable components helps you adopt techniques used in the reference implementations. The guidance discusses approaches for testing SharePoint applications, such as how to create unit tests, and documents experiences with stress and scale testing one of the reference implementations.

a dedicated blog to SSRS and SharePoint

RS SharePoint Integration: "RS SharePoint Integration"

SharePoint Service Pack 2 Update

Service Pack 2 Update.

The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/25/service-pack-2-update.aspx is now available for download.

Developer's guide to development in SharePoint

This is what you need .
http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/

SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS)

What to build a framework for doing Professional Services (PS) work for SharePoint. Want to make sure you follow proven and tested methods of engaging Customers. Want it to come from Microsoft and it should not just be some marketing story? Search no more.

Enter, SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS).

SDPS is a partner and Microsoft Consulting Services delivered offering designed to help our Software Assurance (SA) customers successfully plan and deploy SharePoint. Using field proven business and technical guidance, the program provides best practices and well defined results through 1, 3, 5, 10 or 15 day deployment planning sessions.

Read more.


http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/05/19/announcing-sharepoint-deployment-planning-services-sdps.aspx

https://iwsolve.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/SDPS/ProgramOverview.htm

Social Networking and SharePoint

Please find in the below link for the social networking solution in sharepoint as a product

http://www.newsgator.com/business/socialsites/default.aspx

FYI : Please watch the video too http://www.newsgator.com/business/socialsites/video/socialsites_viddler.aspx

A good read on using SharePoint in Projects

Lee Reed's 3 Ways to Use a SharePoint Blog for Project Success

ROI calculators

I was searching for ROI calculators and here are two links which are pretty neat.

http://nucleusresearch.com/microsoft-roi-support-center/
https://roianalyst.alinean.com/microsoft/iotool/launch.html

Best tips on how to build a online community using SharePoint

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1194

Courtesy of EndUserSharepoint.com

some official documentation on SharePoint and DPM 2007 SP1

All the links on documentation, audio/video and how to and how not. :)


http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/15/system-center-data-protection-manager-releases-service-pack-1.aspx

New patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance for Developing Intranet Applications

New patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance for Developing Intranet Applications

If you're building SharePoint intranet applications, you'll find this guidance valuable. It includes reference sample code and documentation that leads you through key architectural decisions, application of good design principles, and takes the mystery out of deployment and application update.

make data from SharePoint libraries and list available in WSRP format

Here is the toolkit which makes this possible.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WSRPToolkit

Very often in project with integration is crucial, WSRP capability is asked for. Personally i experienced this with government projects.

Using scripts to automate SharePoint Server 2007 installation

Here is good resource for using scripting for deploying SharePoint components for farm deployments.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135694&clcid=0x409

Training videos on SharePoint's BI feature

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102824571033.aspx?pid=CH101785431033

Event ID: 5333 Error.

I was getting the following error in my SharePoint. It was tracked by System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Event Type: ErrorEvent
Source: Office SharePoint ServerEvent
Category: User Profiles Event ID: 5553
Date: 9/22/2008
Time: 11:00:02 AM
User: N/A
Computer: yourmomma
Description:failure trying to synch site bc0e54f5-b924-48b7-9196-0e383c80a078 for ContentDB ab1e590d-582c-4bdc-9ce5-47ec2607372a WebApp b3d80439-d3b8-4749-afc1-5a88e720ea9f. Exception message was Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)).

Some quick search on the web found me this cool tool
SharePoint Inspector. http://www.codeplex.com/spi.

this tool allowed me to decode the database id and web application in the event log error to web application and database instances.

From there a quick stsadm based on a fix here, it all worked out :)

Hope this helps you too

DPM 2007 and SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS)

I have implemented DPM 2007 for data recovery solution for my SharePoint farm, Exchange, Domain Controllers and SQL Servers.

Domain Controllers and SQL Servers were pretty straight forward.
Then came SharePoint.
Here are some information from TechNet on DPM 2007 protecting SharePoint 2007.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb795864.aspx

There is also a webcasts in the link above.