http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2008/02/22/mysite-pages-and-architecture.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2008/05/01/colleagues-social-distance-relevance-in-people-search-social-networking-tools.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2008/04/14/scaling-mysites-how-many-mysites-per-content-db.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/stsadm_commands.aspx

One of the things I feed Sharepoint is missing out is to have cababilities to nately generate documents from a List Item. OK, stuff can get exported into Excel. Often I get asked why a list item cannot be seen as an Infopath or Word form or even as a XPS-PDF-OneNote document. I hope it will get added somehow,  eventually.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sajoshi/archive/2008/05/01/microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit-1-0-is-live.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/archive/2007/07/05/estimate-moss-search-disk-space-requirements.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/scaravajal/archive/2008/04/27/creating-a-sharepoint-development-environment.aspx

http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1219-Thoughts-on-SharePoint-and-Fast-Search

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27151

(via http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/archive/2008/04/23/don-t-get-stung-with-your-hand-in-the-hive-modifying-built-in-sharepoint-files.aspx)

 

Wouldn't it be nice to have this side of Sharepoint "virtualized" ?

http://blogs.msdn.com/jimmiet/pages/uls-log-file-data-mining.aspx

(via http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/04/18/sharepoint-does-support-net-framework-3-5.aspx)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/dcdb7f80-5d48-4b7c-9cb5-affa5f2936531033.mspx?mfr=true

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/20/sharepoint-platform-and-application.aspx

(via http://blogs.msdn.com/tadd/archive/2008/04/21/inside-sharepoint-building-your-sharepoint-infrastructure.aspx)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462809.aspx

Decatec annuncia il lancio dell' "Ufficio Sviluppo Sharepoint" che puo' supportare clienti e partners nello sviluppo Sharepoint avanzato con .NET quale webparts, workflow, Infopath, Office VSTO, Sharepoint Web Services, estensioni al modello oggetti ed integrazione.

Per ulteriori informazioni vedesi la sezione Sviluppo Sharepoint sul sito Decatec.

 

 

(via http://blogs.msdn.com/josrod/archive/2008/04/14/wss-moss-2007-hotfixes-for-march-27-2008.aspx)

WSS http://support.microsoft.com/?id=950484

MOSS http://support.microsoft.com/?id=950487

 

from http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9732

"One attendee asked whether the Outlook Web Access (OWA) administration tool would ever be integrated with SharePoint Server. Saad disclosed that Microsoft intends to merge the two.

"We want to make it so that you only have a single place to go to get all the Web information," she said. "Our long-term goal is having a single point of access for everything on the Web." Much of OWA would become Web parts, she added."

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aaronrh/archive/2007/08/01/sharepoint-search-vs-google-mini.aspx

 

MOC 50064 Advanced SharePoint Development

 

See more on http://www.microsoft.com/learning/syllabi/en-us/50064AFinal.mspx

Who Should Attend

This course designed specifically for the experienced .Net Developer responsible for developing SharePoint applications and customizations.

Introduction

This 5-Day deep-dive course will guide attendees through the process of architecting and developing SharePoint applications and customizations.

At Course Completion

Upon course completion students will have an understanding of how to customize SharePoint Sites and develop applications within the SharePoint environment.

Course Format

This course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent workshop.

Prerequisites

Students must have taken the following courses, or have a high level of the skills associated with these coures, to successfully complete the Advanced SharePoint Development Course:

• MS-2349, Programming the Microsoft .NET Framework with C#
• MS-2542, Advanced Data Access with Visual Studio 2005
• MS-2543, Core Web Application Technologies with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• MS-5060, Implementing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 2007
• MS-5061, Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Course Outline

Module 1: Advanced SharePoint Programming

Topics:

• Overview of SharePoint
• What is SharePoint Programming

Module 2: Custom Authentication

Topics:

• Change the Default Authentication provider
• Membership Providers (ASP.NET 2.0)
• SharePoint Single SignOn

Module 3: SharePoint Permissions

Topics:

• Add users
• Understand SharePoint Default Groups
• Understand Security Trimmed Interface
• Programming Security Trimmed Interface
• Create New Groups
• Create Custom Permission level
• Explore Site/List/Item Permissions Inheritance
• Web Application Zones

Module 4: In Browser Customization

Topics:

• Add/Move/Configure Web Parts
• Add a Page View Web Part
• Add a Content Editor Web Part
• Add a Content Query Web Part
• Create new Web/Web Part Pages
• Create a master page
• Apply a master page
• Create/Apply custom CSS
• Apply custom theme
• Enable Versioning and Content Approval
• Modify Site Navigation
• Modify Quick Launch Navigation
• Regional Settings
• Create a new Page Layout
• Create a new Page using a Page Layout
• Ghosted (uncustomized) versus Unghosted (customized) Pages

Module 5: Basic SharePoint Designer

Topics:

• Open existing SharePoint site
• Create a new SharePoint site
• Explore SharePoint Folders (team site)
• Explore SharePoint Folders (portal site)
• Create ASP.NET Page
• Modify built-in CSS Style Sheet
• Create/Attach CSS Style Sheet
• Create/Attach/Detach a Master Page
• Check In/Out
• Add Web Parts
• Add Web Part Zone
• Add Images
• Reset to Site Definition

Module 6: Advanced SharePoint Designer

Topics:

• Explore Built-In Reports
• Create/Manage Data Views
• Create/Manage Data Sources
• Merge Two Data Sources
• Link Two Data Sources
• Backup and Restore Sites

Module 7: Content Types

Topics:

• Built-in Content Types
• Content Type Inheritance
• Document Information Panels
• Custom Content Types

Module 8: Custom Site Definitions

Topics:

• Create a new Site Definition (Manually)
• Create a new Site Definition (Visual Studio)
• SharePoint Solution Generator

Module 9: Features

Topics:

• Create a Feature.xml file
• Use a Feature.xml file to create a Custom User Control
• Create a basic web part with Feature model

Module 10: Web Services

Topics:

• Learn to find SharePoint Web Services
• Utilizing the Web Services
• Programming to each of the WSS Web Services
• Programming to the new MOSS web services
  • Business Data Catalog
  • Excel Services
  • Search

Module 11: Web Parts

Topics:

• Building A Simple Web Part
• Deploying Web Parts
• Building An Advanced Web Part
  • Use the SharePoint Object Model
  • Databases
  • Web Services
• Create Web Part with Visual Studio Template
• Add child controls to web parts
• Implement Web Part Connections
• Asynchronous vs Synchronous Web parts

Module 12: Client Side Scripts/AJAX

Topics:

• Use AJAX in your web parts

Module 13: SharePoint Object Model

Topics:

• Learn to use the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll and implement integrated SharePoint .NET Applications

Module 14: Custom Field Types

Topics:

• Create a Custom Field Type (Regular Expression)
• Create a Custom Field Type (Telephone Number)

Module 15: SharePoint Event Model / Custom Timer Jobs

Topics:

• Create an event handler for a list
• Create an event handler for a site
• Create a custom time job

Module 16: Workflows with SharePoint Designer

Topics:

• Use each of the WSS/MOSS Workflows
• Use SharePoint Designer to create a simple workflow
• Program a custom workflow activity

Module 17: Workflows with Visual Studio

Topics:

• Use Visual Studio to create an advanced workflow

Module 18: Localization

Topics:

• Learn to utilize ASP.NET Localization
• Install a SharePoint language pack

Module 19: SharePoint & FrontPage RPC

Topics:

• Learn to program to the SharePoint and FrontPage RPC protocols

Module 20: Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0

Topics:

• Learn to do In-Place upgrade
• Learn to do Gradual upgrade
• Learn to do Database Migration upgrade
• Caveats to upgrading

Module 21: Shared Services

Topics:

• Create A Shared Service Provider
• Configure a Shared Service Provider

Module 22: Excel Services

Topics:

• Configure Excel Services
• Configure Excel Services Web Parts

Module 23: Business Data Catalog

Topics:

• Create a Business Data Catalog Application Definition File
• Configure the BDC Web Parts
• Configure Single SignOn with BDC

Module 24: Business Intelligence

Topics:

• Utilize the built-in KPI web parts
• Install Reporting Services add-ins
• Configure Reporting Services Add-ins
• Create a Reporting Services Report
• Run a reporting services report in SharePoint

http://blogs.msdn.com/subhajitc/archive/2008/03/28/avoid-enumerating-splistitemcollection-object.aspx

Tracing detailed Sharepoint operations

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947285/en-us?spid=11373&sid=312

Is the next version of Sharepoint + SQL Server 2008 going to be the real WinFS?

you get transactional (SQL Server 2008) file storage with FILESTREAM + transactional NTFS with Windows 2008 + metadata and search with Sharepoint

http://www.cmswatch.com/About/Press/200803SHAREPOINT/

http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnmagazine/archive/2008/03/26/8336170.aspx

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-sharepoint.html

One of the issues arising lately at my customers is how to protect sensitive information published on Sharepoint. IRM is the answer altough it doesn't cover 100% of customers' requirements. IMHO, IRM could be better marketed as "document pimp protector" than generic DRM.

http://blogs.msdn.com/gayanpeiris/archive/2008/03/24/information-rights-management-with-sharepoint.aspx

http://scothillier.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8F5DEA8AEA9E6FBB!197.entry

http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2008/03/23/database-disconnect-issues-with-sharepoint.aspx

http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-10-Performing_joins_between_SharePoint_lists.aspx