7 Free .NET Development and Architecture E-books

Who doesn't like free e-books and this time its .Net....

http://amazedsaint.blogspot.com/2010/09/7-freely-available-e-booksguides-i.html

Sharepoint 2010 Certification, Training etc..

As you may know certification for Sharepoint 2010 is released. You can find all the details here

Dont forget to take the online training.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/sharepoint.aspx

Build Sharepoint Applications without code

Webparts360 AppStudio is an application development tool that makes it possible for business users to build collaborative solutions for SharePoint using intuitive
visual designers. So no coding required

It provides a collection of components that provide the essential functions such as data entry, transaction processing, reporting and navigation to make it possible
to build solutions such as project management, process approvals, business dashboards and etc... without having to write any programs.

Visit www.webparts360.com for more details.

Sharepoint 2010 Standlone Installation.. Easy Steps

How to find List /Doc Library's guids

Navigate to the SharePoint list using the browser.

Copy the Url from the browser address bar into Notepad.

It will look something like: ......./?List=%7B26534EF9%2DAB3A%2D46E0%2DAE56%2DEFF168BE562F%7D

Delete everying before and including “List=”.

Change “%7B” to “{” and Chanage “%7D” to “}” Guids starts with { and ends with }

Change all “%2D” to “-“

Finally, {26534EF9-AB3A-46E0-AE56-EFF168BE562F}

Hope it helps!!!

Latest updates by Microsoft on 2007

There are so many links when you google for specific info and you get confused what to follow.

All the latest information is released by Microsoft on single page so you dont have to look anywhere else.

Bookmark this link for the latest updates on 2007. This gives all the details of latest releases, Cummulative updates, developers tools etc...


http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-in/office/sharepointserver/bb735839(en-us).aspx

DB maintenance for MOSS 2007..even if your Developer

Whether your Administrator/Architect/Developer make sure you have have maintaince plan setup for databases. As Developer, you must ask the Infrastructure team about this as your code performance will affect this.


This is very vital in production env so that you have no issues with performance. If you dont have it setup follow the whitepaper by microsoft here http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-in/library/cc262731(en-us,office.12).aspx


Also, Microsof thas released KB to fix an issue in the above whitepaper make sure you take note of thishttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/930887/

Two Central Administration running on the farm isit possible?

Yes, its possible and its a perfect Disaster Recovery solution.. So, how do you do this?

Let says you want to do the DR for the farm and one server has CA running...so what if for your DR purpose you shutdown the CA server....how do you access CA on other server in the farm??? STUCK !!!!

You can get rid of this by setting up CA on other box before you start the DR plan.
Goto - CA- Operations - select the server which dont have CA running- under services click START against Central Administration....THIS is it.... you now have perfect DR solution..Dont forget to setup AAM(Alternate Access Mapping) also.

Any queries post it and I will get back...

Sharepoint Training Online....2010 and 2007

Take advantage whether your IT or Developer

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/sharepoint.aspx

The Total Economic Impact of SharePoint Server 2010

Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with 11 Microsoft customers to understand the financial impact of investing in the latest version of SharePoint


Download the whitepaper here

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/F/A6F669F2-0EDA-48F1-9316-1448AF17AA1A/TEI%20of%20Implementing%20SharePoint%20Server%202010.pdf

Do you have Question on Sharepoint 2010

Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010?

By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a live chat event about SharePoint. These Q&A events are a great opportunity to tap into the vast knowledge of these industry professionals who are regarded as the best in their field.


Learn more and add these chats to your calendar by visiting the MSDN event page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx

Sharepoint HealthCheck

What if someone tells your or you want do healthcheck up of your MOSS farm? what do you do...whats your step do you just check the sharepoint side or code? or someone says site is slow?

There are series of healthcheck that needs to be done for infratstructure, IIS, Database side..

I had used few of them and believe me its very helpful.

For developments :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898631 (Support for customized sites)

SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Best Practices

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861954.aspx

Check SharePoint Governance and Manageability (WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Tools) :
http://www.codeplex.com/governance



For performance :



http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262198.aspx (Codeplex, not an officially MS released product)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262971.aspx (Plan for performance and capacity (Office SharePoint Server)

For Infrastructure :


The SPS Reporting Tool is utilized to gather detailed information regarding a systems current configuration. The data collected will assist the Microsoft Support Professional with fault isolation :
http://www.codeplex.com/spsreport/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5706

You can check farm services using the Central administration Web Site

For supported topologies and Architecture Guidelines :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422.aspx

Review supported topologies : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262870.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc789337.aspx

New SharePoint 2010 Exams Available in July

Announcing the availability in July 2010 of four new SharePoint 2010 exams:
• 70-573: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
• 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications
• 70-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring
• 70-668: PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator

MOSS 2010 Training & Links

If you looking for articles to help you with 2010 here it is

SharePoint 2010 Overview

Eval Guide @
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=110318ec-0238-4811-8fc7-ec4399d3c100&displaylang=en
Virtual Machine available @
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9728417
Walk-through Guide @
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8c619bef-008b-4af2-9687-8a05848fea97
SharePoint End User Training @
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/arpans/archive/2010/06/23/sharepoint-2010-end-user-training-and-help.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Developer Resources

Dev Eval Guide @
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cffb14e8-88a9-43bd-87aa-4792ab60d320&displaylang=en

Dev Getting Started @
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee513147.aspx
Dev Advanced Training @
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff420377.aspx
Dev Virtual labs @
http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2010/05/12/sharepoint-2010-developer-virtual-labs-online.aspx

SharePoint 2010 IT Pro Resources

IT Pro Eval Guide @
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167123
IT Pro Getting Started @
tp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee518660.aspx
IT Pro Advanced Training
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepoint/ff420396.aspx
A great summary of IT Pro resources by Jie Li @
http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2010/05/12/sharepoint-2010-it-pro-learning-resources.aspx

If you use Visual Studio make sure you do this

After Visual Studio is installed on a server, the default behavior when an unhandled exception occurs is to show an Exception dialog that requires user intervention to either start Just-In-Time debugging or ignore the exception..To configure the server to no longer show a dialog when an unhandled exception occurs (the default behavior prior to installing Visual Studio), use the registry editor to delete the following registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\DbgManagedDebugger
On a 64-bit operating system also delete the following registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\DbgManagedDebugger

How to add the SharePoint 2010 dlls to the references in Visual Studio

With SharePoint 2007 the DLLs in the 12-hive\ISAPI directory (e.g. Microsoft.SharePoint.dll) showed up on the .NET tab in Visual Studio . If you install SharePoint 2010 you will notice that these DLLs are no longer listed on the .NET tab which means that you have to use the Browse option and have to navigate manually to the directory holding these DLLs which can be time consuming.

Microsoft support over for MOSS SP1

Microsoft has communicated an update on the retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The official retirement date is July 13th.

Retirement details http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?RDPATH=dm;en-us;lifecycle&p1=12200

The April 2010 cumulative update for 2010 has been released

Cummulative updates which are issued every second month is out for 2010.

Download here -

WSS:

981043 The full server package for WSS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;981043

MOSS:

981042 The full server package for MOSS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;981042