SharePoint Links 04.13.07

Here’s some links to the best articles on SharePoint 2007 in the blogosphere:

• SharePoint Team blog provide us with a Visio logical architecture design samples file to give you a jump start on your own design and a Debugger “Feature” for SharePoint community. Thank you SP Team!
• SharePoint Solutions blog released free Utility Quickly and Easily Configures Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint
• Ronalus simplified everyone’s life by providing stsadmWin 2007
• Corro’ll Driskell at Mindsharp blogs about Audiences by design…. Or, Not as enabling audiences on a library allows the user to target content to a specific group of people however you do run into problems when configuring audiences on a document library with multiple content types
• Penny Coventry has a great post on Performing a SharePoint Gradual Upgrade using STSADM
• Find it hard to use the new Ribbon interface? Then try AddInTools, which will revert the Office 2007 Ribbon interface to the classic Office 2003 menu driven interface
  
• Harber has updating his popular Application Pool Manager Recycler - which is a must download for SharePoint Administrators / Developers
• Joel Oleson has two great posts on Master Page and Themes on WSS sites in MOSS discussing the differences between site.master and system.master; while his post ROI from File Shares to SharePoint discusses security and value between both approaches

• MVP Nick Swan post on Creating your own Profile page for Business Data Catalog Entities has a great walkthrough on how you can configure the Business Data Item web part to only show the columns you want in his post
• Sahil Malik posts on Enabling Search on business data is bookmark worthy as he walks you through step by step on setting this up, thank you!
• Learn how to Excluding Content Types from Search Results on Aaron’s blog
• Ishai Sagi has links to two utilities that you should check out: STP Language converter - converts site templates to a language that they were not released in and the infamous SharePoint Tips Utility Pack version 1.2 is released that does the hard work for you, from helping to recursively delete sites to create a list in multiple sites at once, this is a utility worth checking out.
• For some page customization, Steven Van de Craen has two how to posts on people search options shown by default and page layout with page information (author, creation date, …)
• Henry Ong has three great walkthroughs that you must check out: how to Customize People Search Results, Importing User pictures from Active Directory to MOSS 2007 and How to Create Document Templates for Document Libraries
• Tobias provides a walkthrough on how to Publish and display an InfoPath form in the browser
• Todd’s lenghty posts on how to Create an Internet-Facing SharePoint Site provides step by step tutorial
• Liam Cleary posts on SharePoint Reporting Services add in: Installation, Configuration and Report Builder