A little bit later than usual comes the May post with links to the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 resources in 2010… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint 2010 administration and development and Hyper-V.

SharePoint 2010 Administration

• Plan Your Server Farm with Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint 2010 
  Since the complexity of SharePoint 2010 has increased it’s good to know that there is some help.

• Update to SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites
  Ah ok…

SharePoint 2010 Development

• Upgrading sandboxed solutions 
  Chris O’Brien shares his experience with sandboxed solutions.

Virtualization (Hyper-V)

• Virtualisation: Poor performance in VMWare Player or Workstation
  It’s not flaming… it’s useful.

• Repost: Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 5…
  Part 5 of the dynamic memory series.

• Hyper-V Update List - everything you need to know about Hyper-V hotfixes 
  A regularly updated list with Hyper-V fixes.

This is the April post with links to the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 resources in 2010… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint administration, SharePoint 2010 development and Hyper-V.

SharePoint 2007 Administration

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 9 – Job and Timerjob 
  The part of Stefan Gossners blog series about content deployment.

SharePoint 2010 Administration

• Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization This guide shows you how to really set up User Profile Synchronization in SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 Development

• Making Your SharePoint 2010 Customizations Visual Upgrade Aware
  There are new container in SharePoint 2010 you can use to create customizations addressing a certain version of SharePoint.

• Customizing Ribbon Positioning in SharePoint 2010 Master Pages
  Need to customize the ribbon?

• An Expected Error Has Occurred    
  This article shows you how to implement a custom error page in SharePoint 2010.

• VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export)
  Just one post of a series showing improvements you can use in SharePoint development too.

Virtualization (Hyper-V)

• Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 3… 
  Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 4…
  More information at the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog.

This is the third post this year about links to the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 resources in March 2010… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint administration, SharePoint 2010 development and Hyper-V.

Seems like everyone was busy this month except Ben.

SharePoint 2007 Administration

• Resolve accounts across multiple forests
  Read how Office SharePoint Server 2007 addresses cross forest deployments…

SharePoint 2010 Administration

• FAQ: SharePoint 2010 Remote BLOB Storage (RBS)
  Frequently asked question about SharePoint 2010 RBS provided by Jie Li.

SharePoint 2010 Development

• Deployment and security options of custom code in SharePoint 2010  
  3 ways how deploy custom code… with a recommendation at the end.

Virtualization (Hyper-V)

• Performing a “configuration only” export / import on Hyper-V
  Fixing Hyper-V Virtual Machines sticking at 6% starting
  Exporting to / Importing from a network share [Hyper-V]
  Understanding where your virtual machine files are [Hyper-V]
  TechNet Wiki Beta up with a bunch of Hyper-V content
  Hyper-V Whitepapers / Guides (Live Migration configuration + Storage Performance) 
  Ben Armstrong had definitely too much time this month… ;) And these are just links dealing with Hyper-V.

• Explaining Microsoft RemoteFX
  Dynamic Memory Coming To Hyper-V
  Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 2… 
  Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX (a set of RDP technologies) are coming with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

This is the second post about links to the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 resources in February 2010… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint 2007 administration, SharePoint 2010 development and Hyper-V.

SharePoint 2007 Administration

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Simplified - Q & A
  SPTECHCON – Upgrade & Admin Session Decks and Details
  Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? SharePoint 2010
  SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL 2008 R2 Database Enhancements Top 10
  Need to upgrade? Joel Oleson has a lot of important information.

• The February 2010 cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday
  While writing this article not all KB articles are released.

SharePoint 2010 Administration

• SharePoint 2010 Logging Database - An administrators best friend
  Read more about the logging database in SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 Development

• Data Binding SharePoint 2010 List Items in Silverlight 3  
  Andrew Connell shows a reusable way how to bind a collection of SharePoint list items to a Silverlight 3 list box using the data binding syntax in Silverlight.

• SharePoint 2010 - Ribbon … becoming a SP2010 developer - Part 3 
  Here is the third post by myself where I wrote about my trying to become a SharePoint 2010 developer.

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 3 – List View Architecture
  This is the third part in this List View series.

Virtualization (Hyper-V)

• Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs.
  Nice article although it might not happen in your Hyper-V development environment.

• Adventures with Hyper-V and Backup
  Ben Armstrong shares his experience about Hyper-V and Windows Server Backup.

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities + Hyper-V Migration Guide Update
  The Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities and the Hyper-V Migration Guide have been updated.

This is the first post about links to the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 resources in 2010… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint 2007 administration and SharePoint 2010 development.

SharePoint 2007 Administration

• Planning for Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010
  There are a lot of upgrade information. There are more links in the article…

• Understanding Feature and Code Depreciation for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
  Another upgrade post by Joel Oleson.

• Is your SharePoint 2007 farm already on Service Pack 2? If not, read this!  
  Even if it’s not officially announced you should think about Service Pack 2 for SharePoint 2007 in your environment.

SharePoint 2010 Development

• How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab 
  Is it really that complicated to create a contextual Web Part in SharePoint 2010?

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 - Using the New SharePoint Lists
  Here is the second part of the SharePoint 2010 list view blog series.

• Starter Master Page
  ”A minimal master page file for SharePoint Foundation 2010.”

• SharePoint 2010 - Client Object Model … becoming a SP2010 developer - Part 1
  SharePoint 2010 - Sandboxed Solutions … becoming a SP2010 developer - Part 2
  Here are two post by myself where I wrote about my trying to become a SharePoint 2010 developer.

Although there was Christmas and New Year's Eve there was a lot of interesting content published in December. As always I will provide links to the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 resources in December 2009… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint 2007 administration, WCMS and some SharePoint 2010 resources.

SharePoint 2007 Administration and development

• WSS and MOSS December 2009 CU
  The SharePoint 2007 December cumulative update was released.

• MSDN: SharePoint Administrator's and Developer's Guide to Code Access Security 
  This is on of 2 articles which were written by Andrew Connell and published on MSDN in December.

SharePoint 2007 WCMS

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 7 – Change Token Basics
  Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 8 – Job and Change Token 
  Stefan Gossner has continued his great articles about SharePoint 2007 content deployment.

• MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites 
  This is the second article Andrew Connell released on MSDN… this one is about WCMS development and my favorite of the 2 although the Code Access Security (CAS) article is great.

SharePoint 2010 Development

• Using the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Managed Client Object Model
  Here is a great article describing in detail the SharePoint 2010 client object model. A must read for SharePoint 2010 developers.

Virtualization (Hyper-V)

• The different ways to compact a disk
  Core Configurator 2.0 now available!
  Why Hyper-V cannot boot off of SCSI disks (and why you should not care) 
  I almost missed the Core Configurator… I need to test that in my next SharePoint Server 2010 deployment with fresh Windows Server 2008 R2 installations.