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25 November 2007

SharePoint Backup and Restore Resources

This downloadable white paper explains how administrators managing small to medium-size deployments can protect and recover data. This paper describes data recovery from the item level to the farm level.

Download this white paper as a Microsoft Office Word document (.doc) file.

Read this paper online at:

Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102839&clcid=0x409)

 

Web Content Management Links and Resources from Andrew Connell

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossWcmResources.aspx

WSS 3.0 is not shipped with Box of Windows Server 2008

I was reading recently some articles about this topic in Technet and Windows Server Blogs and I found this:

http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/10/29/windows-server-2008-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-update.aspx

Windows Live Authentication in Your SharePoint Site.

Check out this new release in the SharePoint Community Kit for SharePoint.

The CKS:WLA is a membership provider that extends the SharePoint user base to include some of the 350+ million users around the world with active Windows Live IDs. It enables an administrator to add Windows Live ID users to a SharePoint site and provides a new "Authenticated Live Users" group that can be added to a SharePoint site via the People and Groups admin page.
This initial version of the CKS:WLA provider has the following features:

• Windows Live ID authentication supported directly in SharePoint.
  
• Ability to add and resolve a WLID user using an e-mail address
  
• "Authenticated Live Users" group, which works just like the built-in "NT_AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" group that can be used for any SharePoint access control list.
  
• Ability to lock or blacklist a WLID user.
  
• "Windows Live Authentication Setting Sync" Feature at the site collection level, which upon being activated, will synchronize WLID user information to all site collections that have the feature activated, so the users will not have to register again for each new site collection they access.
  

Google gPhone Photos, Probably fake photos !!

First Google gPhone photos, probably fake photos. ;)

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gphone/first-google-gphone-photos-probably-fake-definitely-beat-with-ugly-stick-317306.php

Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to alomost any Digital Camera,

The Eye-Fi. It's an SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera. Plus the free Eye-Fi service supports automatic uploads to 20 different web photo sites (like Flickr) as well as a computer on your home network.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/review/eye+fi-adds-wi+fi-to-almost-any-digital-camera-316537.php

SpineBreakers – What an Awesome SharePoint Site :o)

More and More CREATIVE SharePoint sites: check this out

http://www.spinebreakers.co.u

 

Any Website Developer, Start Now developing your sites on WSS ;)

Wssdemo.com

Ian Morrish, another SharePoint Guru, HE IS IN MY TOP FAVOR SharePoint Gurus. … His website http://www.wssdemo.com is the most favorite for Demos /Projects over WSS/MOSS. I will keep demonstrating his awesome through my WSS pre-sales movies.

Simply his website is AWESOME!!!! ..

Regards,

 

F# (Functional Programming on .NET Board)

Soma had the news today. F# is an official .NET language now! Functional programming becomes a first citizen in .NET :-)

Soma wrote:

One of the really promising current projects from MSR is the F# programming language, spearheaded by Don Syme. F# stems from the functional programming tradition (hence the 'F') and has strong roots in the ML family of languages, though also draws from C#, LINQ and Haskell. F# is designed from the outset to be a first class citizen on .NET. This means that F# runs on the CLR, embraces object-oriented programming, and has features to ensure a smooth integration with the .NET Framework.

I am a big fan of technology transfer between a research organization and a product development organization so that we can "productize" the great research ideas and deliver to customers in a timely manner. This is one of the best things that has happened at Microsoft ever since we created Microsoft Research over 15 years ago. Here is another great example of technology transfer at work. We will be partnering with Don Syme and others in Microsoft Research to fully integrate the F# language into Visual Studio and continue innovating and evolving F#. In my mind, F# is another first-class programming language on the CLR.

This is really great news! Functional programming is very elegant and has a lot of benefits compared to other approaches. There are also some negative aspects: mostly people complain about the speed that functional languages offer. But the best thing about F# is that the team says that programs written in their language are as fast as programs written in C#.

You get functional and dynamic benefits with the same speed as if they would have been written in C#. Isn't it cool?

Channel 8

Mediaroom Personal Server, available Dec 29

Microsoft might have just got the Mediaroom party started four months ago, but already dozens of providers around the world are drinking the kool-aid and having a good time. The much anticipated XBOX 360 integration is also crashing in any day now, but Microsoft's got one last party trick, called the "Mediaroom Personal Server".

On the generously detailed Microsoft Support Lifecycle's portal, where it lists the support availability dates for all previous, current and upcoming Microsoft products, features an entry for "Mediaroom Personal Server". The general availability date provided is "12/29/2007″.

Okay, I have to admit, I have no idea what the Mediaroom Personal Server is. But thanks to Microsoft's ingenious naming conventions, you can't be too far off with a guess either. It is definitely a consumer-orientated software or device bundle, much like Windows Home Server, which serves as an aggregator and hub for your Mediaroom devices.

Some of the scenarios I can think of with a 'personal media server' includes letting you rip and store your DVDs for instant access, let you subscribe to vidcasts which it will automatically download and archive, or even just manage all of your scheduled recordings including remote recordings from web access.

So far, there's not even one reference to this product anywhere on Google besides Microsoft's support page. It is definitely not something they've mentioned in passing. However since it'll be available in exactly two months, I'm pretty sure it's being worked on very hard.

 

Quoted from istartedsomething.com

SharePoint 2009!!!!! Unofficial Statement

There are reports circulating that the next version of SharePoint dubbed as SharePoint 2009 and MOSS 2009 would have its early adopter and CTP by middle of next year. It is also said that knowledge network is included and seamlessly integrated in SharePoint 2009.

These are still unconfirmed reports, though we would keep tabs on SharePoint 2009 and MOSS 2009 developments.

Source: http://www.techticles.com/

Wine 0.9.48 Released

http://www.winehq.org/?announce=0.9.48

This is release 0.9.48 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

 

What's new in this release?

- Still more fixes for regression test failures.

- Much more complete cryptnet implementation.

- WIDL is now able to generate the oleaut32 proxy code.

- Lots of bug fixes.

 

Military VR Simulator is the closest thing ever for HALO 3

What an Awesome Virtual Reality

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/military-sim-almost-brings-halo-3-to-reality/military-vr-simulator-is-closest-thing-ever-to-real+life-halo-3-315435.phpm

Awesome Lego Creation

http://srslycool.com/24.aspx

Running SharePoint Websites in Application Tips for Sys-Admins

Since I receive a lot of issues with "How many Web Applications can be running in the Same Application Pool ?" .. Here is your answer ..

For who has no previous experience on this, Here are some tips for designing your SharePoint implementation:

• Do not run more than 10 Web applications per application pool until you have some performance monitoring experience behind you and you can point to your own numbers, which tell you that your application pools can handle more virtual servers.
  
• Do not plan to run more than 20 Web applications on a single physical server without adding a second Web server (or more) in your farm. The reason for this is because if you're running 20 virtual servers, you've got a growing, busy farm and chances are good that you should scale out before you scale up.
  
• Always purchase servers with 4 GB of RAM to give yourself maximum flexibility in memory allocation for your application pools.
  
• Make each application pool a Web garden with two or three worker processes associated with it. When stsadm.exe runs, it locks one of the threads for its own use. Having other threads available to service calls during backup/restore operations or other scripted operations using stsadm is necessary in most environments. In addition, if a thread becomes very busy, the other threads can pick up the slack.
  

Source: MS SharePoint Server 2007 Administration Companion Book

What an awesome MS Windows Mobile 6 Website !!!!!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/startdoingmore/default.aspx?WT.mc_id=sdmvan

Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F#

Check this out:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-microsoft-to-push-functional-programming-into-the-mainstream-with-f.html

Even Microsoft doesn’t value Facebook at $15 billion

I was tracking MS investment in Facebook and I found this awesome article around. The first thing I did when I saw the numbers, is the mouth thing :S

http://www.techsoapbox.com/even-microsoft-doesnt-value-facebook-at-15-billion-use-your-damn-brain/

Watch VE new release on Channel 10

Watch the new Release of Virtual Earth on 10 ;) ---

http://on10.net/Blogs/laura/new-release-of-virtual-earth/

Btw for people who are interested on Integrating Virtual Earth with facebook don't miss Codeplex VE Maps community kit ;)

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/10/14/announcing-community-kit-for-sharepoint-virtual-earth-maps-on-sharepoint.aspx