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On codePlex there is a project with webparts to help refine Sharepoint serarch.

From codePlex:

"Project Description
MOSS Faceted Search is a set of web parts that provide intuitive way to refine search results by category (facet). "

More info:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=835

And you can find the download at CodePlex

http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=FacetedSearch&ReleaseId=7387

Faceted Search for SharePoint 2.0 Released - Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +

Bamboo Solutions has created a solution for installing WSS 3.0 on Windows Vista thus eliminating the need for Virtual PC or VMware for Sharepoint Development.

This should greatly improve the development experience for Sharepoint developers.

Article at Bamboo

Microsoft has released a Solution Accelerator to quickly deploy sharepoint in an extranet solution.

From Microsoft's description:

This software and documentation helps administrators quickly deploy a SharePoint-based solution for collaborating across the Internet. The documentation includes Planning for External Collaboration with SharePoint, which describes the planning process for deploying the solution in a small or mid-sized environment, and the Deployment and Operations Guide, which explains how to install and configure the solution, provides guidance for users, and describes how to deploy the solution in larger environments.

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

Great articles on Bob Mixon's blog about using MOSS 2007 as a Document Management System.

• MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization
• MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization - Part 2
• MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization - Part 3

Taxonomy - Blog

Microsoft have released Service Pack 1 for both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007

More info at the Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Team blog

And there's allot more information about SP1 at Technet, you will find it here.

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing the Release of WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1

I found this information at Chris O'Brien's blog at http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/

this looks like a great tool for deploying content from one sharepoint server to another. Much more granular then the built-in content deployment features.

The tool have a wizard for choosing the content to export and looks fairly easy to use.

Chris O'Brien's blog: Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

If you are using VSTO to develop a Word Template for use in a Sharepoint document library you might come across the need to in your VSTO code find out what Sharepoint Document Library the Word document was opened from.

This information is not available from the Word object model. When you open or create a new Word document from a Sharepoint Document library Microsoft Word is activated by a ActiveX control that comes with the Office installation. The call to Word is made via standard DDE and the Word object model does not expose the path to the Sharepoint document library where the document came from.

The path to the Sharepoint Document Library is passed as parameters to the DDE call and is accessible from the VSTO code with the following line of code:

 Environment.CommandLine

This will return a string with all of the parameters passed via DDE. Parse the string and you will find the path to the Sharepoint document library where the Word document was opened or created from.

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team have posted some information about the upcoming WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1.

Some of the highlights are:

• Windows Server 2008 Support and Compatibility
• ASP.NET for AJAX Compatibility and Support including support for WebParts built with AJAX Control Toolkit
• + New STSADM commands and 60+ Hotfixes

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Preview into WSS 3.0 SP1 and SharePoint Server 2007 SP1

Good information from Microsoft about what every developer should know on disposing objects when using the Sharepoint object model.

Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model

Microsoft announces the Sharepoint Toolbox project on CodePlex. The project will include tools and add-ons for both Sharepoint administrators and developers.

at the moment it includes 2 tools, the CopyTimer and SPAlertPipeLine. for more information visit the Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Team blog here, or CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/SPToolbox.

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing the SharePoint Toolbox shared source project on CodePlex along with CopyTimer and SPAlertPipeline

New WhitePaper from Microsoft  about how to deal with upgrades of customizations from SPS2003 to MOSS 2007

Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)

BDC Meta Man from LightningTools  is released in a new version.

More information here http://www.bdcmetaman.com/default.aspx

BDC Meta Man new release - Blog

 Microsoft has released a tool that you can run on your Sharepoint Servers and get detailed reports with recommendations that can be applied to your environment to achieve greater performance from your Sharepoint environment.

Link to Download details: Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Of

Excellent and easy to follow article on how to set up and use Excel Services in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. Just follow the link below.

Link to Jason Medero's SharePointing into Collaboration : Setting up and Publishing to Excel Services Step By Step

Good tools available if you are running WSS 3.0 in a hosting environment.

Link to Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : WSS 3.0 for Hosters Solution Kit now available on CodePlex