SharePoint Conference 2009

 http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

 

The SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first and the best conference to get in depth training on SharePoint 2010, from upgrade and migration to the business value of new platform features and functionality. Come and get early insight into what you’ll be able to do with SharePoint 2010 and how you’ll be able to get there

 

Updated Sessions:

• Understanding Office 2010 and the Office Web apps
• Office Web apps: Deployment and Manageability
• Customizing Office 2010 Backstage view and Ribbon
• What's New in Office 2010 for Developers
• Deep-Dive into SharePoint 2010 My Sites and Social Networking Architecture
• SharePoint 2010 Governance: Planning and Implementation
• SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint Deployments
• Overview of Access Services in SharePoint 2010
• Introduction to SharePoint Applications Using InfoPath and Forms Services 2010
• Launching and Supporting Large Global Sites: Lessons Learned from AMD.com (Customer Session presented by AMD)
• How SharePoint Helped Employee Communications Do More with Less (Customer Session presented by Dow Jones)
• Planning, Deploying and Administrating Excel Services and Project "Gemini" in SharePoint Server 2010
• Advanced Web Part Development in Visual Studio 2010
• Enterprise Content Management for the Masses: How SharePoint 2010 Delivers on the Promise
• The 2010 Lineup: SKUs and Licensing

Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects

Brief Description


This is a set of ten Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint projects containing designed themes for SharePoint.
Download here

Just Released - SharePoint Guidance

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.

Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

The fourth version of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit is available for download!  This toolkit services both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3.0.  

For installation instructions, see

WSS: Installing the SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Windows SharePoint Services)   (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508987.aspx)

Installing the SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Office SharePoint Server)   (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508849.aspx)

For more detailed information about the SharePoint Administration Toolkit, see following documentation on TechNet:

SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Office SharePoint Server)    (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc508851.aspx)

SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Windows SharePoint Services)   (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508986.aspx)

The download links for the SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0

x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357   (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=142035)

x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381   (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504)

Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for Office SharePoint Server

Customers use SharePoint products and technologies to significantly enhance productivity, allowing knowledge workers to be more efficient in creating and organizing content. Your IT department can build and manage scalable SharePoint farms to provide for the infrastructure to support collaboration and content management. Your SharePoint architect can create a deployment model that is reliable and scalable, without introducing unnecessary costs or over-architecting the environment.
Microsoft Virtualization (Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V + System Center) provides SharePoint architects with a flexible toolset that can be used to reduce hardware and energy costs, increase the performance of SharePoint farms, and provide a level of design flexibility that is not possible with traditional physical deployment approaches. In addition, with System Center server management suites (such as SMSE or SMSD) you get an end to end management solution that includes tools such as System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 that provides SharePoint-specific monitoring through SharePoint management pack and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2which makes it easy for SharePoint administrators to manage multiple virtual hosts, quickly provision SharePoint servers and farms, migrate physical servers to virtual ones, and perform other key management processes. System Center makes it possible to manage the deployment of SharePoint roles in a mixed physical and virtual environment giving you the ultimate deployment flexibility.
For more information on virtualizing SharePoint and other Microsoft server applications please visit http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/solutions/business-critical-applications/default.mspx

Office Service Packs – more and more

Office Client Products
The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2	Download	953195
Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953195
Microsoft Office Project 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953326
Microsoft Office Project Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953326
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953292
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953292
Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953327
Microsoft Office Visio Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953327
Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953328
Microsoft Office Access Runtime and Data Connectivity Components 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	957262
Calendar Printing Assistant for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953329
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 2	Download	953331
Excel Viewer 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953336
PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953332
Visio Viewer 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953335
Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2007 Service Pack 2	Download	953339
Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite	Download	954914
Office server products
The 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2	Download	953334
The 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2, 64-bit edition	Download	953334
The 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2	Download	953334
The 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2, 64-bit edition	Download	953334
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 products
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2	Download	953338
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2, 64-bit edition	Download	953338
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2	Download	953338
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2, 64-bit edition	Download	953338
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 2	Download
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64 with Service Pack 2	Download

Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview

SharePoint 2010 has reached the technical preview engineering milestone.

What is SharePoint 2010?
SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated set of rich features. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your business needs.

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Secure Data - SSL Certificates

I found a very nice post

Part I : http://www.datasprings.com/Resources/ArticlesInformation/SecureDataSSLCertificates/tabid/859/language/nl-NL/Default.aspx

PArt II: http://datasprings.com/Resources/ArticlesInformation/SecureDataSSLCertificatesPart2/tabid/860/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Installing SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 R2

With Windows Server 2008 R2 available as a release candidate, you may have tried installing MOSS on it already without success and received an error similar to this: "The program is blocked due to compatibility issues".
SharePoint SP2 enables compatibility with Server 2008 R2, so first you've got to make a slipstream install -- then you can install without any problem.


The steps for making a slipstreamed installation of MOSS are pretty simple.

•  Download a MOSS image, and extract it (or copy the contents) to a folder.
• Download WSS and MOSS SP2 patches
• Run each patch with /extract:<\mymossimage>\Updates
• Delete Wsssetup.dll from the updates folder.
• Keep in mind that if you have the combined x86/64 MOSS ISO, your updates folder will be in \x64\Updates or \x86\Updates.

For more details, follow the technet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx

Once you have your slipstream image ready, you'll need to enable a few roles on your Server 2008 R2 box.

 

SharePoint 2007 Outgoing E-mail Troubleshooting Tips

Tip #1

Talk to your networking/mail team and get the SMTP server address and port

Tip #2
Go to the index server and open a command prompt and use the basic old school dos command “telnet”.
telnet smtp.server.com 25
(Typically SMTP operates over port 25, but your company may be different.)
What will happen with this command is one of two things:
If it opens up and basically looks like a blank screen, that means that the SharePoint server can talk to the SMTP server fine.
If it tells you something along the lines of “connect failed”, you know that your SharePoint server can’t talk to the SMTP server. What you should then do is talk to your networking team and make sure that your SMTP server allows connections from your SharePoint server. Once that is done, retest your telnet command.

Tip #3
If your networking team says that you have the server correct, port correct and that there is no reason your server can’t connect to the SMTP, then check your SharePoint server and see if its running any antivirus. The past few clients have been running McAFee antivirus. In its Access Prevention Task, "Prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail" has been enabled and that was blocking the server from connecting to the SMTP server over port 25. As soon as I disabled that I was able to telnet in without issues and then I was able to send email from SharePoint without issue.
I am not sure about the other antivirus vendors but I am sure they have something similar, so check the settings to see if they block port 25.

Tip #4
Check to make sure that Windows Firewall is not blocking port 25, if it is, make sure that you add 25 as an exception.