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Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Update: download temporarily unavaliable due to an issue with one of the files in the package. It will be back online after fix . (09/01/09) The download has been updated. I’m pleased to announce that the fourth version of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration

Analyzing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Usage

The current version of SharePoint gives an administrator the ability to look into what is actually happening on a farm, how many users are active, how heavy are they using the system, what type of requests are coming in, what kind of clients, etc. 

System Center Data Protection Manager releases Service Pack 1

I want to congratulate the Microsoft Storage Solutions team for releasing Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007). It’s been exciting to watch as enterprises that are deploying SharePoint are also seeing the value of a

Announcing December Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

We are happy to announce that December Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is available now. Beyond the fixes and improvements, this new update package is also an effort to create a more convenient way
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Some AAM guidance from the front lines

The ISA Server team recently wrote a nice blog post explaining some of the issues you may face when deploying SharePoint in an extranet. Many of these issues can be avoided by spending some time up front on planning and testing. Close collaboration between

Announcing the SharePoint Best Practices Series

Over the last few months, the SharePoint product team has released a number of resources, updates and made supportability announcements to help our customers and partners deploy SharePoint solutions. Recently, we released the Infrastructure Update that

A much easier way to keep track of new SharePoint content published on MSDN and TechNet

The following RSS feeds have been available for a few months now, but we still get questions on a weekly basis from people wondering how they can keep track of SharePoint oriented content that is published on TechNet and MSDN. Feed for new SharePoint
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New governance content for SharePoint published on TechNet

Hi. I’m Rob Silver, a writer on the IT Pro content team for SharePoint. I’d like to inform you about some content I recently researched and authored about governance with respect to SharePoint Server 2007. Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities,
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Measure SharePoint Service Level Availability and Performance with the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator Beta

Last week at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), we released the beta of a Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager 2007. System Center is the brand for Microsoft’s family of management software, including SMS and MOM, which were
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SharePoint = Platform (and Application)

[Cross-posted from Arpan Shah's blog . Arpan is the Director of Technical Product Management for the SharePoint product group.] SharePoint technology, in many ways, is a game and category changing technology. Because SharePoint is revolutionary, different
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Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 geographically

Greetings, my name is Brenda Carter. I am a technical writer who writes content for the IT Pro audience about Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The purpose of this blog entry is to tell you about the new guidance that our team
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SharePoint IT Admin Survey for Future Versions

The Research Team has asked me to pass on this important IT Pro Survey. We would like to get feedback from your organization about some of the IT features/areas for the next version of SharePoint Server. If your job role includes SharePoint IT administration,
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Office Developer Conference 2008 vs. SharePoint Conference 2008

Most of you should be well aware of the SharePoint Conference 2008 taking place next March 3-6 in Seattle, WA, but I don't believe that we have done a good enough job about promoting the Office Developer Conference 2008 scheduled for February 10-13 in
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Scaling to Extremely Large Lists and Performant Access Methods

The whitepaper for on understanding the best ways to access and work with extremly large lists is now available. The paper titled " Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 " evaluates performance characteristics of large SharePoint lists

Prescan.exe Download and Information

I have to thank Sean Livingston and Ambrose Treacy for following through. Prior to launch I pushed really hard to get prescan as a separate download. Neither of them was on the WSS team during my first attempt. After a number of fun hoops. Ambrose and
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