Today BillG publicly announced MOSS B2 at WinHEC , along with Vista Beta 2 (wow, nice page!) and a slew of virtualization goodies. And with that, the servers in Redmond sprang to life and bits flew across the land. My favourite bits so far? OneNote 2007 -- "it's not just for tablet anymore." Thanks to...

Ameet Phandis wrote a terrific article on writing custom site definitions that somehow slipped under the radar when it was published on ASPAlliance in January. In the article, Ameet copies an SPS definition (SPSTOC) as his starting point, most articles use STS to begin. Nice work!

MS Press has another SharePoint book, and like the Resource Kit they've posted a few chapters online for your convenience. Chapter 18: Advanced Design Techniques Chapter 19: Beginning Web Part Development Chapter 21: Creating Custom Administration Tools About the author: Jim Buyens has written more than...

CorasWorks holds free workshops in many cities ( see the complete schedule ), and Toronto is again on the list for February 28th. In Toronto, workshops are hosted at CTC from 8:30am to 5:00pm on February 28th. To register, please e-mail jprets@corasworks.net . CorasWorks builds a terrific suite of SharePoint...

The SharePoint team has launched a new blog to discuss topics across the SharePoint Products and Technologies family. It started off with a summary of SharePoint's role in Microsoft's collaboration story , a pretty important story to understand if you're in the business. Today they added a good post...

First Jan Tielens created SmartPart as a way of quickly deploying any ASP.NET control as a Web Part. Then WSS SP2 made it possible to upgrade your WSS boxes to run on ASP.NET v2, though without being able to take advantage of v2 features. On Sunday, Jan released Son of SmartPart which will allow you...

A Top Five list of SharePoint gripes set off a chain of blogs . Paul Shaeflein wrote a good rebuttal , but the fact is that these are as much recycled, outdated gripes about MSFT as they are about SharePoint. The author blissfully ignores obvious facts or answers, which sort of undermines the whole exercise...

It's a common scenario to want to use the great Search and Index engines from SharePoint Portal server in other .NET applications, or to customise results for a particular purpose. Some of these are pretty hard to find, so I thought I'd organize them in one place. Microsoft® SharePoint™ Portal Server...

UGS contains one of the nicest web part collections I've seen: Breadcrumbs - Fairly standard. Connected Page Viewer - More IFrame attributes than the Page Viewer, and works with connected web parts. Event Rollup - Aggregate calendars from subsites. Nifty! Flash Movie - Just what it says, clean implementation...

Today I'm figuring out how to migrate information from Exchange Public folders into SharePoint. I found a good WebCast but the tools referenced weren't obvious to find, so here are both links in one place. TechNet Webcast : Migrating eRooms, Windows File Services and Exchange Public Folders into SharePoint...