The last month I have been extremely busy: work, contracts, community projects and just enjoying the summer. I have quit my full time job and started working as a full time consultant for a Microsoft Gold Partner within downtown Toronto.

I have had no time to post but have tried to make an effort in improving this blog both visually and by sharing all the posts that I felt were worthy of posting via the SharePoint Buzz Link Fest. This can be viewed strictly on the homepage of SharePoint Buzz. I have also switched to a three column theme and hope to continue improving the visual look and feel. Currently the theme is only black and white with blue links.

Sponsors

SharePoint Buzz will now offer two ad spots starting the month of October. As long as your product ad / company are providing a service / product for SharePoint technology, you will be accepted. The ad button will appear on every page above the fold. Currently only two ad spots are available.

Ad Specs:

• 125 by 125 pixel size
• Preferably the company or product logo
• Will link back to the company product page
• File size can not exceed 15k
• Animation allowed but no Flash

If you’re interested in securing a 125×125 button sponsorship, Email your ad to sharepointbuzz@gmail.com, and Paypal $100 to the same Email address.

RSS Feed Subscribers

This blog has reached another milestone: 700 RSS Feed Subscribers.

If you have just subscribed to the SharePoint Buzz RSS Feed, I welcome you to a site that is soon becoming the starting point to great SharePoint community content. Here are some of the top posts for you to check out:

• How To Configure Employee Lookup Web Part Series - Part 1 - Want to allow users to search / lookup employees through the Active Directory? The Employee Lookup webpart, for a SharePoint 2007 publishing portal, does not work right out of the box - as it needs to be configured.
• Master Page of Master Page Links - link of some of the top pages on SharePoint Master Pages, Page Layouts, etc.
• SharePoint 2007 Timer Service and Timer Jobs (owstimer.exe) - SharePoint 2007 has quite a few features. One of them is Timer Jobs. If you don’t know how to work with Timer Jobs, then check out the 7 Development Projects for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 ebook offered in one of our top posts
• Free SharePoint e-Book by Microsoft - if you are new to SharePoint or have not downloaded this book, it highly recommended. Besides being free it is full of SharePoint information…
• Installation Guide for SharePoint Application Templates using STSADM.exe - Just installing the Application Templates that were released last month on a new server farm. Installing these application templates is pretty straight forward…
• How To: Configure Incoming Emails - SharePoint 2007 has a great feature that allows you to configure incoming emails…
• How To Customize QuickLaunchMenu - The ever popular quick launch menu has some great functionality that SharePoint 2007 offers since it uses AspMenu Members (Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls). This how to guide will provide you with as much information as possible so that its worthy for you to keep visiting time and time again…

This is just a tip of the top SharePoint posts. As you continue to browse the site you will find a goldmine of information. If you would like to browse via categories: click on the top menu item categories to view all the categories that blog posts are categorized in.