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 SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install...

  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 environments. Windows Virtualization Team...

Thinks Recently (12/04/2008) updated guidance on proven practices (a.k.a. Best Practices) for capacity management for SharePoint implementations on TechNet. Highlights (well almost the complete post from TechNet link with highlights added for emphasis ) Document your capacity planning strategy as early...

Thinks SharePoint Guidance - November 2008 Brief Description This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy, and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and application lifecycle management...

Thinks “ Summary This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation that is named the Contoso Training Management application demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and application lifecycle...