The first update for SharePoint Online has been rolled out recently which introduced various different improvements in areas like: Business Connectivity Services External Sharing Enhanced Browser Support Recycle Bin Fixes to various different problem Read more about the changes...

Finally after a long beta phase the final version of DebugDiag 1.2 has been released. The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional...

[Via Paul Andrew ] Today we are updating the SharePoint Boundaries and Limits document on TechNet with larger content database size limits and we are clarifying the value in Remote Blob Storage (RBS). With these changes to the SharePoint software boundaries the discussion of scale limits moves to...

Microsoft reinvents the browser Read more about how IE 9 reveals the Beauty of the Web and how to download IE 9 Beta .

After a long beta period the 64-bit version of Debug Diag 1.1 was made available for public download from Microsoft download center. The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in...

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains two new functions - the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and...

Database Maintenance for Microsoft ® SharePoint ® Products and Technologies Summary: This paper describes the recommended maintenance strategies for the databases that host content and configuration settings for SharePoint Products and Technologies. Link, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId...

As some of you already noticed: GotDotNet is now down and the code samples previously hosted there have been migrated to the MSDN code gallery. For your convenience here is an overview page of all the code samples which now link to the new location

As some of you already noticed: GotDotNet is now down and the code samples previously hosted there have been migrated to the MSDN code gallery. For your convenience here are links to all my code samples: SharePoint CDInfo This tool allows to gather information about the configuration...

Imagine a daily web comic that adapts tech stories from actual IT Professionals and Developers - a web comic that reflects the real lives of IT Hero's such as you. The HHH Comic series will do just that. Starting the end of January we will release a new daily episodes driven from suggestions from the...

Installing update (hotfixes, public updates, service packs) for WSS and MOSS can be a challenging tasks. Especially as a rollback in case that a problem occurs can be very expensive as it requires the restore of a backup as uninstall of hotfixes or service packs is not possible. To help administrators...

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 3 Description of the Service Pack Download location of the service pack Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Service Pack 3 Description of the Service Pack Download location of the service pack

Beside the WCM book Andrew Connell is working on he also provides a MOSS WCM training for developers. The training is available as well as a 4-days hands on training and a 5-days live meeting training (which might be especially interesting for international attendees): Hands On 4-days...

Those of you who have worked with MCMS previously will surely know Andrew and Spence . These two MVPs are great Content Management experts and they are currently in a project to write a book on Developers book for Web Content Management using the features in MOSS 2007! A must have book for everyone...

The following TechNet articles discuss password changes for different service accounts: MOSS Change passwords used for administration accounts Change passwords for SQL Server services Change passwords for Central Administration and Timer service Change passwords for the Search service...

[via the SharePoint Team Blog and Telerik ] As previously announced on this blog and as of now officially named r.a.d.editor for SharePoint 2007 , this Web-based rich text editor extends the web content authoring environment of Office SharePoint Server 2007 by providing cross-browser compatibility...

Abstract This evaluation guide is designed to present a solid understanding of the search capabilities in Microsoft ® Office SharePoint ® Server 2007 . It provides an overview of Enterprise Search solutions from Microsoft , gives a hands-on tour of the product, and concludes with useful information...

Brief Description This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET™ 2003. Overview This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET™ 2003. Fixes in this Service Pack concern stability and security enhancements made in many areas of the product...

A must read for everyone interested in computer security from Mark Russinovich of www.sysinternals.com : http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/01/antispyware-conspiracy.html

[Via Mark Harrison ] From the Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team blog ... We have analyzed this software ( Sony DRM Rootkit ), and have determined that in order to help protect our customers we will add a detection and removal signature for the rootkit component of the XCP software to the Windows...

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Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates. This service pack combines them into one update...

[From a mail thread] Data stored in clipboard can be accessed by a malicious website through a combination of Javascripts and server side code (like ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, CGI, ...). Just try this: Copy any text by ctrl+c Click the Link: http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard...

Just found a nice tidbit on Scott Hanselman's blog: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WindowsPreLoginWallpaper.aspx

Just found the following great article on this topic: HOWTO: Diagnose IIS6 failing to accept connections due to Connections_Refused