TechNet has announced forget the “Super Bowl”, Windows Server 2008 has RTM’d!!! The features that I’m looking forward to in Windows Server 2008 are:
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 – Modular architecture, high levels of administration
Terminal Services Gateway – Allows access to apps without the need for a RAS client
PowerShell - Object based scripting host which [...]
There’s an updated version of the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System available for download.
While speaking of Best Practices, check out SharePoint Best Practices post by George.
Direct link [sharepointbpa.exe]
Mart Muller has a great summary post regarding Microsoft’s recently released technical whitepaper Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hosting.
Check his post out then check out the technical whitepaper as he points out what is inside this 40+ page document. He lists the best practices for:
Initial activities
Schedule part of planning
Communication part of planning
Planning process
Upgrade process
Validation
MOSS 2007: [...]
Defering content after users sees the page can be very beneficial. Why? Using this technique, the page is rendered much more quickly, while the user’s experience of interacting with the site is not negatively impacted.
If you’ve implemented or are planning to implement a Internet facing website, you are probably exploring all avenues to [...]
Bob Fox has done a great job on providing screencasts for some administrative functions in SharePoint 2007 and we all hope he continues doing a great job. There are several screencasts that he has produced and today I’m going to focus on Working with Managed Paths [direct link to Managed Paths demo].
Why is [...]
This Management Pack quickly brings any failures or configuration problems to your attention, which increases the availability and performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage Operations Manager 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment.
This Management Pack alerts you about the [...]
For those that were looking forward to this, Microsoft has just released the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack monitors the health and state of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
The Management Pack does the following:
Monitors events placed in the application event log
Highlights events that might indicate possible service outages or configuration problems, so you [...]
