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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title> Sundar Narasiman's Random Musings on .NET and SharePoint : SharePoint General</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/tags/SharePoint+General/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: SharePoint General</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>List of SharePoint Resources from Technet Rollup – September09</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2009/09/13/list-of-sharepoint-resources-from-technet-rollup-september09.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:59:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1723051</guid><dc:creator>lavssun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1723051</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2009/09/13/list-of-sharepoint-resources-from-technet-rollup-september09.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Here is the list of technical resources, that I&amp;#39;ve found in September 09 Technet rollup and I&amp;#39;m aggregating them below.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Documentation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Antigen.&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107%20"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content CHM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet. &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a%20"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x86&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381%20"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x64&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357%20"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT Pro content CHM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet. &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=c9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4%20"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=c9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x86&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0. &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381%20"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x64&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357%20"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;amp;familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Migration Manager for SharePoint&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Migration Manager 2.0 provides a solid migration project management framework on top of Microsoft Content Migration API and the stsadm utility that automates and streamlines content migration for SharePoint 2007 (both MOSS and WSS 3.0) deployments.&lt;a href="http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/06/11/sneak-preview-of-migration-manager-for-sharepoint-2-0-part-i.aspx"&gt;http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/06/11/sneak-preview-of-migration-manager-for-sharepoint-2-0-part-i.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies What&lt;/b&gt; does this tool do?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) tool v1.0 greatly simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing troubleshooting data, and can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose issues. SPDiag v1.0 provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint performance issues, and saves collected data and reports to a SQL Server database.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86: &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504"&gt;http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64: &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035"&gt;http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag) User Guide: &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=1C222804-51C7-4BB5-AE3D-89C68AD27A78&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=1C222804-51C7-4BB5-AE3D-89C68AD27A78&amp;amp;displaylang=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SQLDiag and PSSDiag&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;PSSDIAG is also a diagnostics utility used to collect profiler trace, perfmon data for SQL Server. PSSDAIG was created to troubleshoot SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 issues. It evolved into SQL Server 2005 sqldiag. &lt;a href="http://sqlnexus.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=PSSDiag"&gt;http://sqlnexus.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=PSSDiag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting for future releases (Windows SharePoint Services)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Upgrade Checker will scan your SharePoint Server 2007 deployment for many issues that could affect a future upgrade to SharePoint 2010, ships with SP2.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793607.aspx"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793607.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To avoid common pitfalls and keep your Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment available and performing well, follow these best practices based on real-world experience from Microsoft Consulting Services and the product team. &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SharePoint Disaster Recovery Advisor Tool Now Available as Freeware!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;What does this tool do?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Reads your farm configuration from the database backup or from the live config database, Lists all the servers, databases and services in the farm. Verifies availability of all these components in real time, Verifies and re-creates appropriate SQL Server logins to enable SharePoint services access to the databases, In a DR situation, advises on the psconfig.exe commands needed to provision SharePoint front end, Central Administration, and application servers &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/03/06/sharepoint-disaster-recovery-advisor-tool-now-available-as-freeware.aspx#143"&gt;http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/03/06/sharepoint-disaster-recovery-advisor-tool-now-available-as-freeware.aspx#143&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Site Administrator Repository Query Tool&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This tool allows you to run simple and quick queries from the Site Administrator repository, which includes information gathered about systems, as well as configuration information on Recovery Manager for SharePoint and Migration tools.&lt;a href="http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/8.aspx"&gt;http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/8.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SharePoint PowerShell PowerPack v1 Feb 2009&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This download includes 4 PowerPacks.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SharePoint PowerPack - List the SharePoint Webs, folders, and List, and monitor the SharePoint usage. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SharePoint Farm PowerPack - Monitor your SharePoint farm servers, services, web services and web applications&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SharePoint Remove Access PowerPack - PowerPack which connects to SharePoint over its webservices&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SharePoint Navigator PowerPack - allows you to display the properties of the local farm, get a list of servers running in your farm, list SharePoint services and monitor the status and which services needs upgrade, and list the web services and web applications.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/38.aspx"&gt;http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/38.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;SmartTools for SharePoint &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The SmartTools for SharePoint project is a collection of SharePoint extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator a little bit easier!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://smarttools.codeplex.com/"&gt;http://smarttools.codeplex.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1723051" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/tags/SharePoint+General/default.aspx">SharePoint General</category></item><item><title>Rampup program for SharePoint developers - part2</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2009/01/29/rampup-program-for-sharepoint-developers-part2.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1667187</guid><dc:creator>lavssun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1667187</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2009/01/29/rampup-program-for-sharepoint-developers-part2.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The Rampup, free online community based learning initiative has launched part2 of its program for developers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Please sign-in, access this content and leave a feedback &amp;amp; suggestions about . Microsoft is interested in knowing the feedback from developers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1667187" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/tags/SharePoint+General/default.aspx">SharePoint General</category></item><item><title>Integration of MOSS 2007 with Project Server</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2008/07/05/integration-of-moss-2007-with-project-server.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:29:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1639533</guid><dc:creator>lavssun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/commentapi.aspx?PostID=1639533</wfw:comment><comments>http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2008/07/05/integration-of-moss-2007-with-project-server.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Repatedly i&amp;#39;m seeing this question raised in MSDN SharePoint forums asking for what level of integration is possible between MOSS 2007 and Project Server. We can deploy Project Server to an existing MOSS environment, deploy MOSS 2007 to an existing Project Server environment and deploy both the MOSS and project server together to a new environment. All of these are possible. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The technet articles cover them in detail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Deploy Project Server 2007 to an existing deployment of MOSS 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197558(TechNet.10).aspx" title="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197558(TechNet.10).aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;color:#013da4;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197558(TechNet.10).aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Deploy MOSS 2007 to an existing deployment of Project Server 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197594(TechNet.10).aspx" title="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197594(TechNet.10).aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;color:#013da4;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197594(TechNet.10).aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Deploy Project Server 2007 &amp;amp; MOSS 2007 to new environment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197677(TechNet.10).aspx" title="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197677(TechNet.10).aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;color:#013da4;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197677(TechNet.10).aspx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1639533" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/tags/SharePoint+General/default.aspx">SharePoint General</category></item></channel></rss>