There is an upcoming series organized by Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro on the best practices for deploying SharePoint. They are coming to 8 cities namely:

WindowsITPro is sponsoring a PC on demand training for SharePoint Migration.

The speaker is Andrew Yeung, Director of Product Management, AvePoint.

TechCrunch has posted an article on the recent milestone of Google enterprise who just went out with their 5th generation of search appliance. The search appliance is a yellow box based on a Dell server. The latest release has the following features:

1. Indexes 10 million documents
2. Twice, even three times faster than its predecessor
3. Indexes data from Oracle, SAP, Documentum, SharePoint, Salesforce.com, HR, etc.
4. Personalized views depending on role

21apps has just announced that their new re-designed site was built with Agile SharePoint development in mind. From the home page you would notice right away the message it want to convey—“Agile”.

I cannot understand how Starry Dynamo came up with a conclusion that SharePoint is only respected because of its File Management capabilities as she has written in this post.

All of the project engagements I have worked on SharePoint required complex usage of the tool extending it to fit large enterprise requirements.

Paul Andrew (Microsoft Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform), Andrew Connell (SharePoint MVP) and Rob Bogue (SharePoint MVP) are working together to provide a series of SharePoint developer ramp-up webcast starting May 20 until June 18. The schedule are as follows:

Web Parts, Rob Bogue
Tues, May 20 : 12-1p

The SharePoint Learning Kit was released a few months back via CodePlex and is an e-learning delivery and tracking application built in WSS 3.0.

In an excerpt from the product page:

This is exactly what I need. I love technical posters and Kirk Stark from the SharePoint User Assistance team satisfied cravings by creating posters that shows the parameters of SharePoint Stsadm. He created one for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Microsoft has released a couple of weeks ago the SharePoint Administration Toolkit which gives the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and update alert emails whenever web apps change URLs.

As described on the Microsoft download page:

WSS is short for Windows SharePoint Services and is a free component of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. WSS is also provided as a free download here.

WSS is a great starter SharePoint component you can use for information and documents management as well as a team collaboration tool.