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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">SharePoint Thinks, Links and Clinks</title><subtitle type="html">SharePoint TLC as in Thinks (Thoughts and Findings), Links (to other blogs, msdn, technet, etc) and Clinks (toasts about coolness?)</subtitle><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/atom.aspx</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/atom.aspx" /><generator uri="http://telligent.com" version="5.6.583.21163">Telligent Community 5.6.583.21163 (Build: 5.6.583.21163)</generator><updated>2009-04-08T18:03:08Z</updated><entry><title>101 Coding Examples for SharePoint 2010 now available on MSDN</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2012/02/22/101-coding-examples-for-sharepoint-2010-now-available-on-msdn.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2012/02/22/101-coding-examples-for-sharepoint-2010-now-available-on-msdn.aspx</id><published>2012-02-22T23:13:55Z</published><updated>2012-02-22T23:13:55Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;If you are new to developing SharePoint applications, or would like to have some examples available, head on over to &lt;a title="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2010-101-Code-da251182" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2010-101-Code-da251182"&gt;http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2010-101-Code-da251182&lt;/a&gt; and download the Sample Pack. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“Each code sample is part of the SharePoint 2010 101 code samples project. These samples are provided so that you can incorporate them directly in your code. Each code sample consists of a standalone project created in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Happy Coding!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10271253" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>drtadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/drtadd_4000_hotmail.com/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="Development" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Development/" /><category term="Community" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Community/" /><category term="MSDN" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MSDN/" /><category term="Examples" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Examples/" /></entry><entry><title>People Picker Picked a Peck of Points</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/09/11/people-picker-picked-a-peck-of-points.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/09/11/people-picker-picked-a-peck-of-points.aspx</id><published>2009-09-11T17:51:39Z</published><updated>2009-09-11T17:51:39Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;In another non-alliterated words, what it the flow of requests that occur with a user (EUC, not eunich) search with the People Picker Browse Display UI. I was about to try to build this from scratch to make sure that I was troubleshooting the correct boundaries on a recent problem, but, then, BING to the rescue (AGAIN!). The flow diagram of the requests was already out there! YAY to MSDN (&lt;a title="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd357076(PROT.13).aspx" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd357076(PROT.13).aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd357076(PROT.13).aspx&lt;/a&gt; ) There is such a wealth of information out there. Especially, on [MS-WSSO]: Windows SharePoint Services Overview. No need to second guess when the protocol is outlined, diagramed, and described in such detail. Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Dd357076.214185c5-6f78-4fdf-87b1-4fe2497e8867(en-us,PROT.13).gif" src="http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/Dd357076.214185c5-6f78-4fdf-87b1-4fe2497e8867(en-us,PROT.13).gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9894212" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SQL" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SQL/" /><category term="Active Directory" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Active+Directory/" /><category term="People-Picker" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/People_2D00_Picker/" /><category term="BEDS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/BEDS/" /><category term="EUC" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/EUC/" /><category term="WFE" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WFE/" /><category term="DC" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/DC/" /></entry><entry><title>People-Picker Lunch-Time reading</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/09/10/people-picker-lunch-time-reading.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/09/10/people-picker-lunch-time-reading.aspx</id><published>2009-09-10T18:54:19Z</published><updated>2009-09-10T18:54:19Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I am spending my lunch time, sans-pickle, but with lots of good People-Picker goodness. I had to share the soon to be classics in the blogosphere links over at Full Metal Architect. I was digging into a lot of this prior to Binging a few additional things related to trusts, forests, domains, people-picker, browse, check name goodness that is in SharePoint. Bing saved the day again(insert them music here). But the blog entries below have made my day and saved me from recreating the wheel.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marc-antho-etc.net/blog/post/2009/05/13/SharePoint-People-Picker-and-Active-Directory-Part-1.aspx"&gt;Full Metal Architect | SharePoint People-Picker and Active Directory Part 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.marc-antho-etc.net/blog/post/2009/07/24/SharePoint-People-Picker-and-Active-Directory-Part-2.aspx" href="http://www.marc-antho-etc.net/blog/post/2009/07/24/SharePoint-People-Picker-and-Active-Directory-Part-2.aspx"&gt;http://www.marc-antho-etc.net/blog/post/2009/07/24/SharePoint-People-Picker-and-Active-Directory-Part-2.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Additional People-Picker resources&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Peoplepicker- Stsadm properties" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263318.aspx"&gt;Peoplepicker- Stsadm properties&lt;/a&gt; (TechNet)&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.bing.com/search?q=stsadm+peoplepicker+custom+ldap+query&amp;amp;form=OSDSRC" href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=stsadm+peoplepicker+custom+ldap+query&amp;amp;form=OSDSRC"&gt;http://www.bing.com/search?q=stsadm+peoplepicker+custom+ldap+query&amp;amp;form=OSDSRC&lt;/a&gt; BING BABY!!&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9893715" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="Debugging" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Debugging/" /><category term="STSADM" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/STSADM/" /><category term="Best Practices" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Best+Practices/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="Governance" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Governance/" /><category term="Administration" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Administration/" /><category term="Active Directory" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Active+Directory/" /><category term="LDAP" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/LDAP/" /><category term="People-Picker" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/People_2D00_Picker/" /></entry><entry><title>Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/08/27/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-announcing-the-fourth-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/08/27/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-announcing-the-fourth-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx</id><published>2009-08-28T00:29:30Z</published><updated>2009-08-28T00:29:30Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt; I have been away from the blog for a while. However, the release of the Fourth Release of the Microsoft Administration Toolkit is a good enough reason to come out of hiatus. I have been spending quite a bit of time lately digging into permission issues at a customer I support. I was reading about the Permissions Reporting Tool and a tear came to my eye. Now to go give it a try!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Permissions Reporting Tool&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In the past, customers have had a difficult time trying to detect what sites in a site collection have broken inheritance from the parent and thus why they cannot access some sites.&amp;#160; The Permissions Reporting tool for SharePoint makes it very easy to detect where inheritance has been broken in a site collection.&amp;#160; You can compare an object like a list or a site against its parent to see where inheritance was broken and run reports to get more information on such sites. You can also check effective permissions for a user or a group in a particular site, web, or list in a site collection; this feature lists the permissions that a user or group has.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Once the Permissions Reporting tool is installed in the farm, a site collection administrator can go to the top-level site or any subsite in a site collection and use the links on the &lt;b&gt;Site Settings&lt;/b&gt; page to reap the benefits of the tool. The following image shows the new links that appear after you have installed the Permissions Reporting tool in the farm.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image004_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="clip_image004" border="0" alt="clip_image004" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image004_thumb.jpg" width="205" height="244" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note&lt;/b&gt;: To be able to see the links for &lt;b&gt;Broken Inheritance Reports Jobs&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Compare Permissions Sets&lt;/b&gt;, you must be a site collection administrator. However, anyone with the &lt;b&gt;Enumerate Permissions &lt;/b&gt;permission — by default, people in the site Owners group — will be able to see the &lt;b&gt;Check Effective Permissions&lt;/b&gt; link. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image005_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="clip_image005" border="0" alt="clip_image005" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image005_thumb.jpg" width="31" height="33" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Click &lt;b&gt;Broken Inheritance Report Jobs&lt;/b&gt; to run reports of broken sites in a site collection. Reports contain any information relevant to a broken inheritance. The report output is in XML, but you can save the files and then open them in Excel to see the information at a glance. For more information, see &lt;a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA103679411033.aspx"&gt;Run broken inheritance reports&lt;/a&gt; on Office.com.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image006_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="clip_image006" border="0" alt="clip_image006" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image006_thumb.jpg" width="33" height="35" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Click &lt;b&gt;Check Effective Permissions&lt;/b&gt; to check a user or group’s permissions on a site, list, or item. You can view what permissions are allowed and denied and any blocking permissions. For more information, see &lt;a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA103628601033.aspx"&gt;Check permissions for a user or group&lt;/a&gt; on Office.com.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image007_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="clip_image007" border="0" alt="clip_image007" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingtheFourthReleaseoftheMicrosoft_614/clip_image007_thumb.jpg" width="36" height="37" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Click &lt;b&gt;Compare Permission Sets&lt;/b&gt; to compare an object such as a site or a list against its parent to quickly detect which object breaks inheritance in your site collection. For more information, see &lt;a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA103629511033.aspx"&gt;Compare permission sets&lt;/a&gt; on Office.com.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/08/27/announcing-the-fourth-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx"&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9887440" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="Best Practices" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Best+Practices/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Microsoft Web Platform" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Microsoft+Web+Platform/" /><category term="Performance" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Performance/" /><category term="Administration" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Administration/" /></entry><entry><title>ProcDump : SysInternals tool for generating crash dumps during spikage</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/16/procdump-sysinternals-tool-for-generating-crash-dumps-during-spikage.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/16/procdump-sysinternals-tool-for-generating-crash-dumps-during-spikage.aspx</id><published>2009-07-16T17:27:40Z</published><updated>2009-07-16T17:27:40Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Another tool for your tool belt from SysInternals Mark Russinovich. Why would you need this in SharePoint land? Ever had a process spike and you would have liked to capture a memory dump for analysis and you just happened to miss the occurrence of the event? I have, and I know that a few other have as well. There are a few work arounds that can be done with some other tools out there. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the spike. ProcDump also includes hung window monitoring (using the same definition of a window hang that Windows and Task Manager use) and unhandled exception monitoring. It also can serve as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx"&gt;ProcDump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9835676" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="Debugging" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Debugging/" /><category term="Tools" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Tools/" /><category term="SysInternals" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SysInternals/" /></entry><entry><title>SharePoint Development Tools - SharePoint Development Wiki - SharePoint Dev Wiki</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/15/sharepoint-development-tools-sharepoint-development-wiki-sharepoint-dev-wiki.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/15/sharepoint-development-tools-sharepoint-development-wiki-sharepoint-dev-wiki.aspx</id><published>2009-07-15T21:49:11Z</published><updated>2009-07-15T21:49:11Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Great list of tools to make your SharePoint Development, Deployment, Debugging, Debunking very Delightful. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/SharePoint+Development+Tools?focusedCommentId=8519700#comment-8519700"&gt;SharePoint Development Tools - SharePoint Development Wiki - SharePoint Dev Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9834557" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="Debugging" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Debugging/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="Tools" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Tools/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="Development" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Development/" /><category term="Alliteration" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Alliteration/" /><category term="Debunking" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Debunking/" /></entry><entry><title>Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/13/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-announcing-sharepoint-2010-technical-preview.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/13/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-announcing-sharepoint-2010-technical-preview.aspx</id><published>2009-07-13T18:26:02Z</published><updated>2009-07-13T18:26:02Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sneak a peek over at the site below for videos and more!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;2010 Sneak Peek Home: &lt;a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx"&gt;http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2010 Sneak Peek Overview Video: &lt;a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Overview-Video.aspx"&gt;http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Overview-Video.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2010 Sneak Peek IT Pro Video: &lt;a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/IT-Pro-video.aspx"&gt;http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/IT-Pro-video.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2010 Sneak Peek Developer Video: &lt;a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Developer-video.aspx"&gt;http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Developer-video.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2010 Sneak Peek Get Ready: &lt;a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Get_Ready.aspx"&gt;http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Get_Ready.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2010 Sneak Peek FAQ: &lt;a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/FAQ.aspx"&gt;http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/FAQ.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingSharePoint2010TechnicalPreview_14373/image_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/sharepoint/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingSharePoint2010TechnicalPreview_14373/image_thumb.png" width="644" height="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/07/13/announcing-sharepoint-2010-technical-preview.aspx"&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9831799" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="2010" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/2010/" /><category term="Future" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Future/" /><category term="Technical Preview" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Technical+Preview/" /><category term="Composites" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Composites/" /></entry><entry><title>DelegConfig v2 beta (Delegation / Kerberos Configuration Tool) : Download : The Official Microsoft IIS Site</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/10/delegconfig-v2-beta-delegation-kerberos-configuration-tool-download-the-official-microsoft-iis-site.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/10/delegconfig-v2-beta-delegation-kerberos-configuration-tool-download-the-official-microsoft-iis-site.aspx</id><published>2009-07-10T17:25:33Z</published><updated>2009-07-10T17:25:33Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I just love the main screen of this tool! Kerberos can be scary and misunderstood (kinda like referees!)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Introduction   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;DON'T RUSH!!! You are not so smart that you should skip over reading the following. I like to skip over documentation just as much as the next person. But for your own benefit please read this information (usage tips and features). If you are not aware of everything this tool can do, you will add unnecessary confusion and work to your already frustrating experience of getting Kerberos and Delegation to function properly. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;Usage Tips    &lt;br /&gt;READ what the report tells you - If I had a penny for every time somebody asked me what the report ALREADY SAYS I would be rich. Okay, maybe not rich, but I'd have a lot of pennies.    &lt;br /&gt;Start by using the report locally from the web server - You should still use the same URL that you plan on using remotely. However, certain types of authentication problems will occur only if your connection is using Kerberos and there is something misconfigured. Using this tool from a browser instance local to the server will avoid those types of problems since in most cases local requests use NTLM.    &lt;br /&gt;Next, use the report from a remote client - One important check that is performed is whether or not your browser has actually connected to the web service using Kerberos. If you always make your requests from the web server itself, you will likely always see a &amp;quot;Negotiate with NTLM&amp;quot; connection with a red &amp;quot;x&amp;quot; next to it (and red icons usually bother people). A second important piece of information revolves around name resolution of the client. If your requests are always from the server, how can we see what the client thinks?     &lt;br /&gt;Lastly, click any &amp;quot;Fix This&amp;quot; buttons locally from the server - There will be &amp;quot;Fix This&amp;quot; buttons that appear that will allow you to make the exact changes that you need to get things working. But just like any other web application, this application is at the mercy of the whole double-hop concept. The most relevant types of changes this tool can make are Trust settings and ServicePrincipalName settings which are both stored in Active Directory. If you try to make changes to these settings (i.e. you click the fixThis buttons) from a remote browser instance it will likely fail because of the failed double-hop from browser-to-WebServer then webServer-to-ActiveDirectory.     &lt;br /&gt;Pages    &lt;br /&gt;/Set/SPNs.aspx - Allows adding and removing of ServicePrincipalNames     &lt;br /&gt;/Set/Delegation.aspx - Allows changing Trust for Delegation settings.     &lt;br /&gt;/Set/Providers.aspx - Allows correcting of inadequate NTAuthenticationProviders settings.     &lt;br /&gt;/Report.aspx - Gives a picture of what is right and what is wrong.     &lt;br /&gt;/Wizard.aspx - A set of wizard steps that supports adding more tiers to /Report.aspx.     &lt;br /&gt;/Test.aspx - Allows double-hop tests for webServer-to-Sql or webServer-to-File server or webServer-to-webServer &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&amp;amp;g=6&amp;amp;i=1887"&gt;DelegConfig v2 beta (Delegation / Kerberos Configuration Tool) : Download : The Official Microsoft IIS Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9828759" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="Community" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Community/" /><category term="Kerberos" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Kerberos/" /><category term="IIS 6" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/IIS+6/" /><category term="IIS 7" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/IIS+7/" /></entry><entry><title>What GUID is that Feature in the Window?</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/09/what-guid-is-that-feature-in-the-window.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/09/what-guid-is-that-feature-in-the-window.aspx</id><published>2009-07-09T18:05:13Z</published><updated>2009-07-09T18:05:13Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Check out Robert’s post at &lt;a title="http://www.thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2007/05/16/list-of-features-with-guids.aspx" href="http://www.thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2007/05/16/list-of-features-with-guids.aspx"&gt;http://www.thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2007/05/16/list-of-features-with-guids.aspx&lt;/a&gt; for a quick list of which GUID links to which feature within your MOSS Farm. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In addition, StefanG has a tool on msdn (&lt;a title="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WssAnalyzeFeatures" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WssAnalyzeFeatures"&gt;http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WssAnalyzeFeatures&lt;/a&gt;) which will list out the guid and feature that you have installed on your site collection. Very helpful!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2007/05/16/list-of-features-with-guids.aspx"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9826897" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Features" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Features/" /><category term="GUID" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/GUID/" /></entry><entry><title>Better Together : Adding a custom column to Site Settings</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/09/better-together-adding-a-custom-column-to-site-settings.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/07/09/better-together-adding-a-custom-column-to-site-settings.aspx</id><published>2009-07-09T16:37:45Z</published><updated>2009-07-09T16:37:45Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Over on “Better Together”, a new blog by a fellow Microsoftie Will Feaser, he shares a quick and easy to implement method of adding customized links to the Central Administration, Site Settings. All with brackets and short little ~ and others in your elements.xml file. Be forewarned, make sure you backup your environment and have proper change control as future service packs, hot-fixes, upgrades and other admins playing may change your settings.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Please join me in welcoming Will to the blogosphere. Even though he links to me as “A Tadd to much.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bettertogether/archive/2009/07/01/adding-a-custom-column-to-site-settings.aspx"&gt;Better Together : Adding a custom column to Site Settings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9826698" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Web Application" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Web+Application/" /><category term="Administration" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Administration/" /></entry><entry><title>Stefan Goßner : Hotfix for SP2 issue that reverts SharePoint products to Trial Version has been released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/25/stefan-go-ner-hotfix-for-sp2-issue-that-reverts-sharepoint-products-to-trial-version-has-been-released.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/25/stefan-go-ner-hotfix-for-sp2-issue-that-reverts-sharepoint-products-to-trial-version-has-been-released.aspx</id><published>2009-06-25T15:44:34Z</published><updated>2009-06-25T15:44:34Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;If you follow SharePoint technologies on the blogosphere, you will most likely have come across Stefan’s blog. If not, here is a link to a recent blogpost regarding a fix for the “Let us go back to the Trial version” that was an added feature for SP2.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Good Luck &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2009/06/25/hotfix-for-sp2-issue-that-reverts-sharepoint-products-to-trial-version-has-been-released.aspx"&gt;Stefan Goßner : Hotfix for SP2 issue that reverts SharePoint products to Trial Version has been released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9803487" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="SilverLight" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SilverLight/" /><category term="64 bit" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/64+bit/" /><category term="Hotfix" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Hotfix/" /><category term="Service Pack" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Service+Pack/" /><category term="32 Bit" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/32+Bit/" /></entry><entry><title>Twitter and SharePoint and a Purple Polka Dotted Twikini</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/23/twitter-and-sharepoint-and-a-purple-polka-dotted-twikini.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/23/twitter-and-sharepoint-and-a-purple-polka-dotted-twikini.aspx</id><published>2009-06-23T06:09:16Z</published><updated>2009-06-23T06:09:16Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I have been using twitter a little over the past few years. I remember getting an account because I thought it was going to be the next big thing. It took off and I forgot that I had an account. I then remembered, went out a started to tweet again. Using my Windows Mobile phone and sending SMS messages was an OK to proceed, but I thought that there had to be a better way. I did some searching with BING (&lt;a title="http://www.bing.com/search?q=Twitter+Windows+Mobile+Client&amp;amp;form=OSDSRC" href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=Twitter+Windows+Mobile+Client&amp;amp;form=OSDSRC"&gt;http://www.bing.com/search?q=Twitter+Windows+Mobile+Client&amp;amp;form=OSDSRC&lt;/a&gt;) and came across a few clients. I decided to give Twikini a try. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;ol&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Written in C++, which is a plus to me over some of the other languages. &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;I like the icon&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;It looked to be just what I was looking for in a client for twitter. After some practice tweets, I was impressed.&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;GPS location posting (optional)&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;TwitPic integration &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Retweeting (new word?)&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Favoriting (another new word)&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I won’t be following some of the tweeters in their screen shots, but Twikini has made following the 12 or so that I do follow easier. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;What does this have to do with SharePoint? I follow a few SharePoint gurus and other Software Geekazoids and I think that having a Client on my phone will make it easier to follow them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Feel free to follow me &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/drtadd"&gt;http://www.twitter.com/drtadd&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Find other SharePointers of the world &lt;a title="http://twitter.com/search/users?q=sharepoint&amp;amp;category=people&amp;amp;source=find_on_twitter" href="http://twitter.com/search/users?q=sharepoint&amp;amp;category=people&amp;amp;source=find_on_twitter"&gt;http://twitter.com/search/users?q=sharepoint&amp;amp;category=people&amp;amp;source=find_on_twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/tadd/WindowsLiveWriter/TwitterandSharePointandaPurplePolkaDotte_1459B/image_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/tadd/WindowsLiveWriter/TwitterandSharePointandaPurplePolkaDotte_1459B/image_thumb.png" width="244" height="151" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Next test will be me learning my # and @ for searching, replying, and other twitness. My GPS is not talking to it yet, but I like a challenge. I will make sure to have a true repro of the screen below in July and August!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Screenshot" src="http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Images/Twikini03.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9798713" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="Twitter" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Twitter/" /></entry><entry><title>SharePoint - webparts</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/16/sharepoint-webparts.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/16/sharepoint-webparts.aspx</id><published>2009-06-16T21:07:01Z</published><updated>2009-06-16T21:07:01Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Check out the list and description of the great out of the box web parts that Ian Morrish has over at &lt;a title="http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/webparts.aspx" href="http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/webparts.aspx"&gt;http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/webparts.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is more of a “favorites” blog entry for me to remember.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/webparts.aspx"&gt;SharePoint - webparts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9762816" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Web Parts" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Web+Parts/" /></entry><entry><title>Trying to be sneaky and defrag a Virtual PC VHD using Win 7 mount VHD</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/09/trying-to-be-sneaky-and-defrag-a-virtual-pc-vhd-using-win-7-mount-vhd.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/09/trying-to-be-sneaky-and-defrag-a-virtual-pc-vhd-using-win-7-mount-vhd.aspx</id><published>2009-06-09T21:46:13Z</published><updated>2009-06-09T21:46:13Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Note to self: Sometimes, just because you can technically do it, does not mean that you should.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Lesson Learned! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I decided to save some time and defrag a Virtual PC VHD by mounting it in Windows 7. The mounting was easy, the defrag was easy as well. Started Virtual PC back up and it said “Hey, your drive is read only!” I said “crap, what did I do?” Oh, yeah, I forgot to UNMOUNT the VHD from Windows 7. So, I UNMOUNTED the Virtual PC VHD from Windows 7 and I was thinking, wow, if this works, think of the time savings! Restarted Virtual PC and it said, “Umm, you know, you modified this disk, WHICH, BY THE WAY, had a differencing disk.” I decided to tread on and made some changes and exited, feeling pretty good. Came back a little later and tried to restart the Virtual PC with its fresh defrag drive. OOPS, registry is crapped out and it makes sense. Oh well, back to the back up and Lesson learned.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;NOTE: Defrag the VHD from its own OS running, not from some fancy smanzy trick of mounting the VHD in the way cool Windows 7 RC. Yeah, Windows 7 is cool and it allows you to do other things with VHDs that do work.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Go BING it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9717231" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="Disaster Recovery" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Disaster+Recovery/" /><category term="Virtualization" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Virtualization/" /><category term="Defragmenting" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Defragmenting/" /><category term="Windows 7" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Windows+7/" /><category term="VHD" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/VHD/" /><category term="Virtual PC" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Virtual+PC/" /></entry><entry><title>Stsadm Technical Reference for SharePoint Server 2007 (Now with SilverLight interactivity!)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/04/stsadm-technical-reference-for-sharepoint-server-2007-now-with-silverlight-interactivity.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/06/04/stsadm-technical-reference-for-sharepoint-server-2007-now-with-silverlight-interactivity.aspx</id><published>2009-06-04T16:00:41Z</published><updated>2009-06-04T16:00:41Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Check out the new STSADM reference on TECHNET. It now has SilverLight functionality added for your convenience.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx"&gt;Stsadm Technical Reference for SharePoint Server 2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9699532" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="STSADM" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/STSADM/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="SilverLight" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SilverLight/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="Performance" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Performance/" /></entry><entry><title>Sharepoint Ports and Protocols - Bing</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/05/29/sharepoint-ports-and-protocols-bing.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/05/29/sharepoint-ports-and-protocols-bing.aspx</id><published>2009-05-29T19:53:53Z</published><updated>2009-05-29T19:53:53Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I was looking for a reference(s) for all the various ports and protocols in play with a SharePoint Implementation. I said to myself, “Hey, go BING it!&amp;quot;. So, I did!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.bing.com/search?q=Sharepoint+Ports+and+Protocols+&amp;amp;form=QBLH" href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=Sharepoint+Ports+and+Protocols+&amp;amp;form=QBLH"&gt;http://www.bing.com/search?q=Sharepoint+Ports+and+Protocols+&amp;amp;form=QBLH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;BING is my new friend. I hope he will be yours too!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=Sharepoint+Ports+and+Protocols+&amp;amp;form=QBLH"&gt;Sharepoint Ports and Protocols - Bing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9654804" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="Protocols" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Protocols/" /><category term="Ports" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Ports/" /></entry><entry><title>SSRSIWSF – SQL Server Reporting Services Integration With SharePoint Fun</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/05/05/ssrsiwsf-sql-server-reporting-services-integration-with-sharepoint-fun.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/05/05/ssrsiwsf-sql-server-reporting-services-integration-with-sharepoint-fun.aspx</id><published>2009-05-05T17:15:37Z</published><updated>2009-05-05T17:15:37Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;A few links that may help you out if you are battling the challenges that can occur in an implementation of SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration Mode. Most focusing on SQL 2005 as that is the current challenge I am helping someone with.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluesurftech.com/TechBlog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f66fed30%2Da22a%2D43f6%2Da52b%2D5a2f3bedd6e7&amp;amp;ID=30"&gt;Reporting Services SharePoint Integration mode Installation Gotcha – TechBlog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/attachment/4194088.ashx"&gt;Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services - Installation and Configuration Guide for SharePoint Integration Mode.docx&lt;/a&gt;       &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/tadd/WindowsLiveWriter/SSRSIWSFSQLServerReportingServicesIntegr_85FD/image_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/tadd/WindowsLiveWriter/SSRSIWSFSQLServerReportingServicesIntegr_85FD/image_thumb.png" width="644" height="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from the install and config guide above. &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/archive/2007/11/06/installing-amp-configuring-the-integration-between-reporting-services-and-sharepoint.aspx" href="http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/archive/2007/11/06/installing-amp-configuring-the-integration-between-reporting-services-and-sharepoint.aspx"&gt;http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/archive/2007/11/06/installing-amp-configuring-the-integration-between-reporting-services-and-sharepoint.aspx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1035"&gt;Integrating SharePoint with SQL Reporting Services&lt;/a&gt; (Michael Gannotti on SharePoint+) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1E53F882-0C16-4847-B331-132274AE8C84&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies&lt;/a&gt; (readme) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;     &lt;p&gt;On the deploying client, the machine used for creating the reports to be deployed, update to SQL Server 2005 SP2 (client tools at least) for a better (less chance of errors) experience. &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;     &lt;p&gt;How to: Configure the Report Server Integration Feature in SharePoint Central Administration from SQL Server 2005 Books Online (&lt;a title="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157412(SQL.90).aspx" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157412(SQL.90).aspx"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157412(SQL.90).aspx&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;     &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677365(SQL.90).aspx"&gt;How to: Configure SharePoint Integration on Multiple Servers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9588881" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="SSRS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SSRS/" /><category term="Report Center" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Report+Center/" /></entry><entry><title>WSS &amp; MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/30/wss-moss-sp2-is-available-5-no-brainer-reasons-to-install-sharepoint-joel-s-sharepoint-land.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/30/wss-moss-sp2-is-available-5-no-brainer-reasons-to-install-sharepoint-joel-s-sharepoint-land.aspx</id><published>2009-04-30T18:30:13Z</published><updated>2009-04-30T18:30:13Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;In quotes as it was copy/pasted with respect. Go read the rest at Joel’s blog.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=217"&gt;WSS &amp;amp; MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;It’s nice when things happen as expected.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;h5&gt;Five No Brainer Reasons to Install SP2 &lt;strong&gt;(When you are ready!!!)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;    &lt;p&gt;1. Performance Reliability/Stability Fixes&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;2. Browser support for IE 8 and improvements in &lt;a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101945391033.aspx"&gt;tier 2 browsers (Firefox)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;3. Reliability improvements in Indexing and Index Corpus&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;4. Security Improvements&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;5. New STSADM Commands including some to fix corruption and relationships (orphaning)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;“&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d-183c-4fc2-8320-ba5369008acb&amp;amp;ID=217"&gt;WSS &amp;amp; MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9580525" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="Proven Practices" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Proven+Practices/" /><category term="Updates" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Updates/" /><category term="Performance" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Performance/" /><category term="SP2" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SP2/" /></entry><entry><title>Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/29/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-announcing-service-pack-2-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/29/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-announcing-service-pack-2-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx</id><published>2009-04-29T16:48:24Z</published><updated>2009-04-29T16:48:24Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h4&gt;Announcing Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“It includes all the fixes prior to SP2, and also several enhancements to improve server farm performance, availability and stability. Plus, a new stsadm operation has been added to help customers prepare for the upgrade to the next version of SharePoint.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Be the first on your block!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/28/announcing-service-pack-2-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx"&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9575744" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="Service Pack" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Service+Pack/" /><category term="Patches" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Patches/" /></entry><entry><title>Error message when you try to modify or to delete an alternate access mapping in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action"</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/24/error-message-when-you-try-to-modify-or-to-delete-an-alternate-access-mapping-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-an-update-conflict-has-occurred-and-you-must-re-try-this-action.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/24/error-message-when-you-try-to-modify-or-to-delete-an-alternate-access-mapping-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-an-update-conflict-has-occurred-and-you-must-re-try-this-action.aspx</id><published>2009-04-24T21:02:27Z</published><updated>2009-04-24T21:02:27Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“file system cache on the front-end servers are newer than the contents of the configuration database.”&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Who you gonna call? Not Ghost Busters, but Cache Flusher!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939308"&gt;Error message when you try to modify or to delete an alternate access mapping in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: &amp;quot;An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9567105" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="Debugging" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Debugging/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="Disaster Recovery" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Disaster+Recovery/" /></entry><entry><title>Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/16/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/16/microsoft-sharepoint-team-blog-microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx</id><published>2009-04-16T17:22:26Z</published><updated>2009-04-16T17:22:26Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h4&gt;Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010&lt;/h4&gt;    &lt;p&gt;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.&amp;#160; Where did the big O go? read on&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx"&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9552947" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="2010" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/2010/" /><category term="14" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/14/" /><category term="MSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MSS/" /></entry><entry><title>Microsoft Update Product Team Blog : Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/15/microsoft-update-product-team-blog-service-pack-2-for-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-april-28th.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/15/microsoft-update-product-team-blog-service-pack-2-for-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-april-28th.aspx</id><published>2009-04-15T16:37:36Z</published><updated>2009-04-15T16:37:36Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Check out the Office Sustained Engineering team &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/default.aspx"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; for updated information on service releases for supported versions of Office.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Taken verbatim from the Microsoft Update Blog&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Changes that impact desktop applications&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Service Pack 2 adds the ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These applications now let users save, open, and edit files as OpenDocument Text (*.odt), OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods), and OpenDocument Presentations (*.odp).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· The 2007 Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 is the first service pack to support uninstall of client updates through the Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite as well as via Windows Installer command line. The Service Pack Uninstall Tool will be available as a separate download.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Save As PDF/XPS support has been built into the SP2 of these Office applications. Users no longer have to download the add-in separately.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· When many graphic objects are present performance has been improved. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· In many scenarios, expect increased print fidelity of graphical objects. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improved interoperability using standard DrawingML markup to describe the visual properties of the SmartArt graphic.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The 2007 Office Suite SP2 has been tested and is supported for Internet Explorer 8. Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 will all be supported upon their release. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Access&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· The ability to export reports to Excel has been added. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Fixes for issues with the import data wizards, report printing and previewing, macros, Excel integration, and date filters. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Updates to Access Developer Extensions are now included in SP2. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Excel&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· The charting mechanism has improved robustness and targeted performance improvements. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· A chart object model has been added to Word and PowerPoint. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improved printing of graphical content, especially on PCL printers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Groove&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improved form tools. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Synchronization reliability has been improved. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;InfoPath&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Increased compatibility between InfoPath forms and other Microsoft products, such as Groove and Outlook.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;OneNote&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· SharePoint synchronization has been improved which helps reduce the load on SharePoint servers and produce fewer errors. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Outlook&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Performance in startup, shutdown, view rendering, and folder switch has been improved.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Calendar updates, search, and RSS are more reliable.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· The object model has been improved.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;PowerPoint&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Resaving of files is faster. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Several printer-specific problems have been fixed. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· The Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object Model has been more fully integrated. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Project&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· The scheduling engine, Active Cache, and Gantt charts all have improvements. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· There is additional reliability with earlier versions of the .mpp format. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Publisher&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Fixes have been made in the following areas: print preview, compatibility with Internet Explorer 8, e-mail on Windows Vista, and saving to the Content library. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Visio &lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improved compatibility with other Microsoft products in several key scenarios, such as inserting Visio drawings as linked objects in PowerPoint or Word, exporting reports to Excel, and saving drawings as Web pages for browsing in Internet Explorer 8. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Word&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Fidelity of PDF and XPS output has been enhanced. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Fuller integration of the Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object Model. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Changes that impact the server products&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms. SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint Products and Technologies. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current environment.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· SP2 offers support for standards-based documents formats and compatibility with a broader range of Web browsers. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Substantial improvements to Forms-based authentication. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server R2 will be supported on their release. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Enterprise Content Management (ECM)&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· The performance and stability of content deployment and variations feature has been improved.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· A new tool has been added to the STSADM command-line utility that enables a SharePoint administrator to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Excel and Access Services&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· SP2 makes it easier to configure Excel Web Access Web parts on new sites. Several rendering, calculation, and security issues have been resolved.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Some display issues have been addressed. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improved compatibility with Mozilla Firefox browsers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Groove Server &lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improved synchronization reliability. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Groove Server 2007 Manager will install and run with SQL 2008.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Groove’s LDAP connectivity and auto-activation functionality have been improved. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Error reporting in the Groove Relay Server has improved significantly. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Groove Relay Server has improved robustness. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Forms Server&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Memory requirements and the page load times for large browser-rendered forms have been reduced. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Browser rendering of various controls, such as the 'cannot be blank' asterisk and the rich text field has been improved.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Project Server&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Better memory management in the queue service.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Performance to certain database table indexes is improved&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Resource plans, build team, cost resources, and the server scheduling engine have improved. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Search Server&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improvements to the reliability and stability of very large corpus crawls.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Backup-restore has been improved.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· A new command has been introduced to the stsadm.exe tool that lets a SharePoint Administrator to tune the Query processor multiplier parameter. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;· Improved accuracy in searches involving numbers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2009/04/14/service-pack-2-for-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-april-28th.aspx"&gt;Microsoft Update Product Team Blog : Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9550757" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Service Pack" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Service+Pack/" /><category term="Windows Update" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Windows+Update/" /><category term="SP2" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SP2/" /></entry><entry><title>Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Series on virtualizing SharePoint</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/14/windows-virtualization-team-blog-series-on-virtualizing-sharepoint.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/14/windows-virtualization-team-blog-series-on-virtualizing-sharepoint.aspx</id><published>2009-04-14T15:58:16Z</published><updated>2009-04-14T15:58:16Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h3&gt;Series on virtualizing SharePoint&lt;/h3&gt;    &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/04/06/Series-on-virtualizing-SharePoint.aspx"&gt;Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Series on virtualizing SharePoint&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9548475" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="Deployment" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Deployment/" /><category term="TechNet" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/TechNet/" /><category term="SQL" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SQL/" /><category term="Patterns and Practices" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Patterns+and+Practices/" /><category term="Proven Practices" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Proven+Practices/" /><category term="Windows Server 2008" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Windows+Server+2008/" /><category term="Design" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Design/" /><category term="Virtual Server" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Virtual+Server/" /><category term="Hyper-V" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Hyper_2D00_V/" /><category term="Virtualization" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Virtualization/" /></entry><entry><title>Joel Oleson's Blog - SharePoint Land : Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/08/joel-oleson-s-blog-sharepoint-land-recommendations-for-sharepoint-application-pool-settings.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/08/joel-oleson-s-blog-sharepoint-land-recommendations-for-sharepoint-application-pool-settings.aspx</id><published>2009-04-08T21:00:40Z</published><updated>2009-04-08T21:00:40Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;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.&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/29/sharepoint-app-pool-settings.aspx"&gt;Joel Oleson's Blog - SharePoint Land : Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9538650" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="Best Practices" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Best+Practices/" /><category term="IIS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/IIS/" /><category term="Web Application" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Web+Application/" /></entry><entry><title>Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/08/server-and-site-architecture-object-model-overview.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/2009/04/08/server-and-site-architecture-object-model-overview.aspx</id><published>2009-04-08T20:03:08Z</published><updated>2009-04-08T20:03:08Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Another one to have in the links is a lovely diagram-full MSDN link of Server and Site Architecture with Objects! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Server Architecture" src="http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/ms473633.76d7b5ef-fb9e-46c1-bb31-342d5eb1aec7(en-us,office.12).gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Site Achitecture" src="http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/ms473633.3d1c470e-19b3-4a77-9c57-72463ccd8e89(en-us,office.12).gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms473633.aspx"&gt;Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9538560" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>tadd</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx</uri></author><category term="SharePoint" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/SharePoint/" /><category term="WSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/WSS/" /><category term="Tools" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Tools/" /><category term="MOSS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/MOSS/" /><category term="Timer" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Timer/" /><category term="Web Application" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Web+Application/" /><category term="Object Model" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tadd/archive/tags/Object+Model/" /></entry></feed>