I was going to write up a nice succinct description of the reasons and then I read SharePoint Joel’s and said, these will do just fine! Thank you again Joel. In quotes as it was copy/pasted with respect. Go read the rest at Joel’s blog. “ WSS & MOSS...

  Announcing Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 “It includes all the fixes prior to SP2, and also several enhancements to improve server farm performance, availability and stability. Plus, a new stsadm...

  “file system cache on the front-end servers are newer than the contents of the configuration database.” Who you gonna call? Not Ghost Busters, but Cache Flusher! Error message when you try to modify or to delete an alternate access mapping in Windows...

  Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Check out the link below where they talk about some of the names for the “14” wave of products including Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.  Where did the...

Check out the Office Sustained Engineering team blog for updated information on service releases for supported versions of Office. Taken verbatim from the Microsoft Update Blog   Changes that impact desktop applications · Service Pack 2 adds the...

  Series on virtualizing SharePoint The Microsoft-UK services team recently posted an in-depth virtualizing SharePoint series. It is a culmination of their experiences over the last couple years helping customers successfully host SharePoint in virtualized...

  Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings that I wanted to make sure I kept this link fresh. Even though it may be a little old. Joel Oleson's Blog - SharePoint Land : Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings

Another one to have in the links is a lovely diagram-full MSDN link of Server and Site Architecture with Objects! Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview   Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview

To follow up with the free release of SharePoint Designer, steps to lock it use down if you have “creative” users that want to muck with your system! Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Recently updated information for you and your developers from MSDN! Enjoy Find up-to-date guidance about how to write Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 applications and customizations that perform well, avoid common pitfalls, and best use the features...

Needed to wait until after April 1st to post this or people would not just say “Yeah Right!” SharePoint Designer available as a free download Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint Designer available as a free download

Sorry for the flash back to the Mickey Mouse Club, but it sticks. Quick Challenge on comparing hot fixes (QFEs) applied to a server farm to determine which ones are needed across all of the servers. There are a few options like Microsoft Baseline Security...