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.

A little bit late but here are the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 resources in November 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

• October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  The SharePoint 2007 October cumulative update is available.

• x64 version of Debug Diag 1.1 troubleshooting tool has been released to web yesterday
  Useful for troubleshooting issues.

SharePoint 2007 WCMS

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 2 – The Basics continued
  Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 3 – Configuration
  Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 4 – Communication
  Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 5 – Quick Deployment
  Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 6 – Logging 
  Stefan Gossner has written more articles in his series of SharePoint 2007 content deployment.

SharePoint 2010 Development

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources
  Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010
  SharePoint 2010 Changes in Rendering
  Andrew Connell has has blogged some useful information about SharePoint 2010 development.

Virtualization (Hyper-V)

• Booting Hyper-V R2 off a USB stick
  Hyper-V and Domain Controllers – Demo Tips and Tricks
  Some tips and tricks for Hyper-V and Domain Controllers provided by Ben Armstrong… Useful if you are waiting to long to start the image.