This is good news to all database developers as Microsoft has now added improvements to the Visual Studio Line by creating tools to allow database professionals to interact and collaborate with the rest of the software development team.

On the other hand, I believe this is more than good news to the rest of the team of being able to get the database people in the flow of things. Often times, it is rather tedious and time consuming to get the database people to do what you want them to. They seem to live in their own little world.

I am currently downloading all applications in Office 2007 Beta 2. Once I am done I shall install and evaluate each one of them. I will update you on this.

For your experience, download the software here.

Good news to everyone because the Office 2007 Beta2 SDKs are now available for download:

Windows SharePoint Services V3: Software Development Kit
SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit
VS 2005 Tools for Office Update: InfoPath 2007 Beta Support
Groove 2007: Software Development Kit
Visio 2007: Software Development Kit

Information from Pieter de Bruin

Below are my actual notes during the Migration Workshop session here at the SharePoint Conference. (Please forgive any wrong grammar. (It is like writings from the old age where the pen and exact document by famous people are kept in a museum).

Reference Models: Portal/Web Applications

WSS 2.0 Data Tier—SQL Server 2000—OOB Lists: Links, Announcements, Contacts, Events, Tasks, Issues—OOB List Applications: Threaded Discussion, Survery—OOB Libraries: Documents, Images, XML Forms—Custom and Customized Lists and Libraries

Below are my actual notes during the Disaster Recovery session here at the SharePoint Conference. (Please forgive any wrong grammar. (It is like writings from the old age where the pen and exact document by famous people are kept in a museum).

Disaster Recovery for SharePoint Technologies

SQL Failover clustering

If my SQL server blows up (hardware failure), how do I keep my farm going?

Below are my actual notes during the Templates and Features session here at the SharePoint Conference. (Please forgive any wrong grammar. (It is like writings from the old age where the pen and exact document by famous people are kept in a museum).

Templates and Features: Everything and Administrator Needs to know

Arjun Ohri
Program Director
WSS

Below are my actual notes during the Extranets/Internet session here at the SharePoint Conference. (Please forgive any wrong grammar. (It is like writings from the old age where the pen and exact document by famous people are kept in a museum).

Extranets and Internet Facing Environments In the Real World Deployment and Management

Terms:

Below are my actual notes during the Enterprise Search here at the SharePoint Conference. (Please forgive any wrong grammar. (It is like writings from the old age where the pen and exact document by famous people are kept in a museum).

There are a lot of innovations put into the new Search capabilities of SharePoint. However, there was no detailed description of how search results are determined yet, but I hope it would have the capability of pushing the best documents up the results which is useful whenever there are already tens of millions of documents with a lot of similar documents uploaded to the server that makes searching painful.

Below are my actual notes during the Capacity Planning here at the SharePoint Conference. (Please forgive any wrong grammar. (It is like writings from the old age where the pen and exact document by famous people are kept in a museum).

Performance and Capacity Planning
Steve Tullis

Questions often heard

You might have noticed I am posting my exact notes from the SharePoint conference here in Bellevue, Washington.

I will go through each of them again after the conference and I will write deep technical and stakeholder points of view for each session. I will give the advantages and disadvantages of the product. For now, please bear with my rapid note-taking.