Sharepoint

• Microsoft has recently released an update to the Central Administration site that makes it easy to move a Site Collection between different Content Databases. The Batch Site Manager can be very handy if you need to break up your content across multiple Content Databases – possibly sitting on different SQL Servers. The same tool also allows you to lock and delete site collections.
• In a previous article in the Exploiting or Being Exploited By SharePoint Search series, the author discussed how to create a simple Search Center that will allow you to search your team site for information. He has also discussed managed properties and scopes in previous articles. It is now time to put all of those resources together to build a more complex search center that can be used to search multiple team sites housed in their own site collections.
• E-mails and attachments contain a lot of critical project information, so it’s natural to want to store e-mails along with other documents in SharePoint document libraries.
• The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System creates detailed reports to help administrators achieve greater performance, scalability, and uptime.
• How to: Query Search using the Web Service by Corey Roth.

• Which Microsoft search product is for you? Microsoft currently offers three distinct enterprise search solutions:

  • Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (MSS Express)

  • Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS)
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
• This morning Microsoft released three new important updates that affect SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007. Read about it on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.
• Microsoft SharePoint on the iPhone.
• Paul Culmsee wrote the first part of an article in sharepointmagazine.net about creating a Leave Form in SharePoint.