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A bit late this week sharing SP love, but made it ….

 

1. Just released this week on MSDN Administrator’s Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment
2. Recalculating Usage Statistics via STSADM or PowerShell
3. How to connect your OneNote notebook to SharePoint, thanks to ferringer for the tip
4. Creating Mashups In SharePoint – MashPoint is the new, FREE platform from Bamboo® that enables integration of external data sources in MOSS or Windows SharePoint Services.
5. How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives

Another round of SP links for 2009. 

1. This is really cool. I use Mindjet MindManager and I must give this a go Dynamic MindManager Map Generated from SharePoint List Data
2. SharePoint blog hosted on just SharePoint can do with this trick : How-To: Aggregate Blog comments using the Content Query WebPart
3. SharePoint rocks! No doubt. Well this year’s report from the Nielsen Norman Group has identified that 5/10 best intranets are built on SharePoint!. Details in the report
4. This one’s for my toolkit: SharePoint Extranet Hardening Planning Tool Thanks to JD Wade
5. And last but not least Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 site to receive e-mail Credit to @mysharepoint

I had disappeared for most of last year. Not this year… Kick of year 2009 with some SharePoint love to share …

 

1. Not only will you appreciate Gary Lapointe’s STSADM commands extensions, but also the first batch of his 11 PowerShell Cmdlets for SharePoint
2. Very interesting workaround by Paul Galvin – A Web Proxy Server Tried to Stop Me From Installing Windows Workflow Foundation, But I Defeated It
3. Check out these SharePoint Server 2007 Courses (free) on Microsoft Office Training web site.
4. Using an alternate CSS on your SharePoint sites
5. Microsoft Services SharePoint Deployment Planning Services is a service offering that provides you with a well-integrated deployment plan that can help lower costs and optimize your business productivity infrastructure.

Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more click here.

The first 50 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Full Isolator license, Free. for rules and info click here.

James Milne of Myriad Technologies has just released this content type toolbar today. It is free and very easy to deploy.

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The cumulative update packages for October 2008 contain the latest hot fixes for the 2007 Office core suite applications and servers.

Packages that are included in the October 2008 cumulative update

A link to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article that discusses each hot fix will be released as the article becomes available. To obtain a specific hot fix, please contact support and ask for the hot fix by referencing the Knowledge Base article number.

The list is too long and can be viewed here

Update: SharePoint October 2008 hot fix links

 

Hotfix package name	Knowledge Base article number	Product
Sts.msp	957691 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957691/) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008	WSS
Ccoreserver.msp	957693 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957693/) Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008	MOSS / Search
Iifswfe.msp	957694 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957694/) Description of the Forms Server 2007 hotfix package (Ifswfe.msp): October 28, 2008	InfoPath Forms Server
Iipeditor.msp	957695 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957695/) Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Ipeditor.msp): October 28, 2008	InfoPath
Coreservermui.msp	958567 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958567/) Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreservermui.msp): October 28, 2008	MOSS / Search
Dlc.msp	958569 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958569/) Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Dlc.msp): October 28, 2008	Office Core

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SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957693&kbln=en-us

SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=958567&kbln=en-us

SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=958569&kbln=en-us

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957691&kbln=en-us

Early this month, I did my exams for MCTS: Configuring and Administering MOSS 2007 70-630 exams and scored 1000/1000! Yeah, felt great for sure. Next on list is 70-631 and for sure I see that Becky  Bertram is on track for that as well. Becky has very graciously shared study guide for this exam. It’s not your run of the mill study guide. She has researched well and compiled list of links to resources for each and every relevant section. Now that surely is awesome! Thanks Becky! All the best.

List of links that can be helpful when studying for the MCTS: WSS Configuration exam from Becky Bertram

I have tried to twitter at least, if not blogging and today this post really got me to reference here for future – SharePoint and Twitter Web Part! Wow, this is really cool.

This Last week I have had been on Mindsharp SharePoint Designer Training with Kathy Hughes (SharePoint MVP) and really enjoying enjoyed the training. I haven’t been using SharePoint Designer a lot lately and this course has been a great refresher! I wanted to reference two good tools that I am sure you would appreciate when doing css – IE Developer Toolbar and Firebug for FireFox.

Of course

• SharePoint is best viewed in Internet Explorer
• SharePoint CSS is best understood with Firebug

Stay tuned for some cool SharePoint Designer posts.