12/31/2004

New MS Software in 2005

New MS Software in 2005: "Bink is compiling a list of all the new goodies or updates of existing goodies Microsoft will bring out next year. Here are the interesting ones in the domain of the information worker:
Encarta 2006
Money 2006
Longhorn Beta (client)
Longhorn Server Beta 1
Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (includes some elements of Edge Services like Sender ID)
Monthly IMF updates for Exchange 2003
MSN Messenger 7
MSN Search web
MSN Search desktop
Corperate Error Reporting 3.0
Office 12 Beta
Small Business Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Sharepoint Portal Server 2005
ADAM 2.0
System Center 2005 (SMS 2003 sp1, MOM 2005, SQL reporting)
Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 express editions (C#, VB, ...)
Visual Studio 2005 Team System
SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
AntiVirus and AntiSpyware 2005
.NET Framework 2.0
Commerce Server 2006 beta
ASP.net 2.0
'Instanbul' Windows Messenger (Voip client for LCS 2005)
Fingeprint reader in Intellimouse Explorer
Windows Mobile 2005 (3G [UMTS] , Wifi, VGA)
ActiveSync 4.0
Live Meeting 2005
Office for Small Business Management
Office 2003 sp2 ?"

MSDN Magazine Contents: February 2005

MSDN Magazine Contents: February 2005: "SharePoint: Add a Recycle Bin to Windows SharePoint Services for Easy Document Recovery
Maxim V. Karpov and Eric Schoonover"

12/29/2004

SharePoint 2003 Resource Center

SharePoint 2003 Resource Center: "SharePoint 2003 Resource Center
On This Page
Books
Microsoft Web Sites
Third-Party Web Sites
Recommended SharePoint Downloads
GotDotNet Workspaces
SharePoint Newsgroups
Microsoft Seminars Online
MSDN Webcasts
TechNet Webcasts
SharePoint Bloggers
SharePoint Solution Providers"

12/23/2004

Reverse Proxy Configurations for Windows SharePoint Services and Internet Security and Acceleration Server

Reverse Proxy Configurations for Windows SharePoint Services and Internet Security and Acceleration Server: "Reverse Proxy Configurations for Windows SharePoint Services and Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Published: November 1, 2004 | Updated: December 16, 2004
This white paper describes the reverse proxy configurations that work with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and includes procedures for publishing SharePoint sites using ISA Server 2004. This type of configuration is useful in an extranet scenario where you need to make your site available to authorized users on the Internet. Topics include SSL termination, SSL bridging, host-header forwarding, and reverse proxies."

Download details: Resource Tool Kit 2.0 for Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003

Download details: Resource Tool Kit 2.0 for Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003

12/19/2004

OLAP/BI/IM stuff

OLAP/BI/IM stuff
Server Developer Center: Internal SQL Server Diagnostics Tools, Part 1: PSSDiag
SQL Server Developer Center: Internal SQL Server Diagnostics Tools, Part 1: PSSDiag: "Ken Henderson explains how to use PSSDiag, a diagnostics collection tool for SQL Server. PSSDiag is one of several Microsoft Product Support Services tools recently released to the Web that are now available for personal use. "

The first in a series of articles, this discusses PSSDiag, which if you ever call MS for support with SQL Server it is one of the first things they will ask you to run. So a very useful tool to be familiar with it, and useful to keep regular benchmarks with too. Spotted over at Michael Rys' blog.
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12/14/2004

12/11/2004

Sample Blog Site: Home Page

Sample Blog Site: Home Page: "This site has been created using a custom SharePoint Site Definition developed by Collutions, Inc.
The site will be used to show examples of what SharePoint can do and to explain how the site definition works."

Tips for Enhancing the Accessibility of SharePoint Web Sites

Tips for Enhancing the Accessibility of SharePoint Web Sites

12/08/2004

Tech�Ed 2005 Call For Papers

Tech�Ed 2005 Call For Papers
The Tech•Ed 2005 organizers invite you to submit proposals to speak at Tech•Ed in our conference breakout sessions. Tech•Ed is one of Microsoft’s most important annual technical training events, and our speaker selection process is extremely rigorous to ensure that attendees experience outstanding quality technical training. Successful proposals will be technical presentations that target best practices and tips & tricks, delivered by experts with significant and highly-rated speaking experience.

Objectives: Tech·Ed is Microsoft’s annual technical conference to provide IT Professionals and Developers with tools, information and resources to build, deploy, secure, and manage solutions across currently shipping Microsoft technologies.

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How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication

How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services with Service Pack 1

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services with Service Pack 1

12/05/2004

Download details: Microsoft SharePointPSSearch SQL Syntax (Preview)

Download details: Microsoft SharePointPSSearch SQL Syntax (Preview): "This download includes a preview of the reference documentation for Microsoft SharePointPSSearch the SQL Syntax used for Microsoft SharePointPSSearch Full Text Search with Microsoft Office SharePoint� Portal Server 2003. Look for updates to this documentation in the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK)."

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12/03/2004

WebPart Connections Tutorial

WebPart Connections Tutorial
Summary:
This article explains how you can use the WebPart Connections Transformers feature to allow two incompatible WebParts to communicate between each other without having to modify their source code, building an intermediate class that transforms communication between them.

How to rename a computer that is running SharePoint Portal Server 2003

How to rename a computer that is running SharePoint Portal Server 2003: "How to rename a computer that is running SharePoint Portal Server 2003"

GotDotNet User Sample: SharePoint Services web service browser (VS 2005)

GotDotNet User Sample: SharePoint Services web service browser (VS 2005)
This sample application lists all available web services and web methods Windows SharePoint Services provides. It ties right into the MSDN help topics so you see a detailed description of each web service, web method as well as its input and output parameters. This allows a convinient way to discover and learn the web services and web methods. Discover how you can use SharePoint from within your application using its web services.

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12/02/2004

SharePoint User Manager (Version: X1.0)

SharePoint User Manager (Version: X1.0)
Not sure about other people, but I find it quite time consuming when trying to manage users inside of Windows SharePoint Services sites, especially when the sites in the hierarchy have their security inheritance broken. A number of customers end up breaking security inheritance at every opportunity and then hit this problem.

So, I am in the process of writing a SharePoint User Manager Windows Application in order to help out in this area!

Below is a screenshot of the utility to-date (Note: This is version X1.0 and as such has restricted functionality)
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