MSIT Site Life Cycle Managment tool beta 1 release and TechEd Goodies

I just uploaded the code for the Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management tool. Bill Baer worked overtime to get me the code on this one. Thanks Bill!

If you're concerned about sites being unused, taking up disk space and interfering with search results, then this is the management tool for you. It does the notifications based on your configuration, and these notifications are not to all sites, just to the sites that are not used. When used in conjunction with the site delete capture (which it uses) it captures deletes that are manual and those that are automated.

I hope to demo this tool and the MSIT Site Delete Capture tool during the Governance session on Friday. I fly out tonight on a red eye to Orlando, so I can quickly acclimate and enjoy myself before the festivities begin.

The big announcements for me at TechEd US are this tool and the Governance TechNet landing page feature articles, both of which will be featured during the Governance session on friday at TechEd.

There are a few cool things to look for at TechEd that I had my hands in....

1. Governance Checklist - a must have deployment checklist tool with governance models based on content featured in the articles going live in the next few days. This cool checklist will be available at the booth and at the Governance session. I think you'll like this. A soft copy of this cool checklist will be on the landing page.

2. Governance and Best Practices Poster by Mindsharp - A compilation of Mindsharp's Governance and Deployment best practices which have incorporated a few tips of my own. In good partner fashion we've printed 1000 copies (first come first served) that will be available at the SharePoint Server booth. If you're not at TechEd you can register on their site to get a bundle of MOSS 2007 posters.

3. Upgrade & Migration Planning and Resources CD (WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007) - We'll have about 2000 copies, Shane Young and I will have these at the Upgrade session we're going to co-present after that we'll have the remainder at the booth. These are hot off the press and available for the first time. It also includes a bunch of very recent content on CMS 2002 migration to SharePoint Server 2007. These will be available at WPC as well. Most of the content on this CD is navigable from the TechNet Upgrade and Migration resource center.

4. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Resource DVD - I believe these are in the bags. I did the beta 2 version of this DVD. It has a lot of the upgrade resources on it including case studies, documentation, and most of all a MOSS VPC! This VPC is loaded with all up MOSS enterprise, Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer and the full Office Enterprise client including Groove 2007.

Beyond these items watch for these sessions... (Don't go to part 1, the Planning for Deployment basics unless you need 200 level content or are new.)

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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Upgrade and Migration

Shane Young & Joel Oleson

	Code	Title	Date/Time	Room
	MST11-TLC	Real World in the Trenches: SharePoint Engineers Unplugged	6/6/2007 3:45PM-5:00PM	Green Theater 4
Had any infrastructure, architecture, or deployment questions you couldn’t find answers to elsewhere? Do you read the SharePoint blogs and can’t get enough? Come listen to Joel and Shane, open mike.
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	OFC222	Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007: Administrative Architecture and Planning for Deployment, Part 1	6/7/2007 1:00PM-2:15PM	N310 A
This session describes the new Deployment and Administration Architecture for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn about Logical and Physical design architectures, planning and deployment considerations, as well as Inter-Farm and Intra-Farm Shared Services Capabilities. Also, understand the Administration Components and Administration Security considerations throughout the platform.


	OFC418	Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007: Deployment and Advanced Administration Topics, Part 2	6/7/2007 2:45PM-4:00PM	S220 D
This session is the second of a two-part series on Deployment and Administration in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn about advanced configurations and deployment architectures including Extranet Deployments and Inter-Farm Shared Services. Gain an understanding of Steady State and Advanced Administration techniques and capabilities for the SharePoint Farm including Password Management, Disaster Recovery, SQL Management, Patching and Service Pack Management, and the Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria enhancements.


	OFC207	SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture Guidance	6/8/2007 1:00PM-2:15PM	S310 E
The most important thing you’ll do to ensure a successful deployment is create an Information Architecture. Overlooking Information Management can lead to chaos. Come learn key SharePoint Governance Models which can help you balance the security and control that you need while continuing to support an easy to use, easy to manage platform.
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