Quite a bit of news in the last week – just to make sure you didn’t miss these events in the pre-Derby festivities:

Office 2007 SP2 has launched http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5&displaylang=en
Vista SP2 has reached RTM http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2009/04/28/windows-vista-sp2-rtm-windows-vista-sp1-blocker-tool-removed.aspx
WSS v3 w/ SP2 is out http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ef93e453-75f1-45df-8c6f-4565e8549c2a
Windows 7 RC hit MSDN […]

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Back in 2005 I was privileged to be one of the co-authors of “Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed”. As I’m sure most authors can attest, working on a book is a very unique and eye-opening experience.  It takes a lot of time, work, testing, research and commitment to crank out a book, but […]

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Recently announced: Microsoft Search Server Express is now available as a free download! It’s available in x86 or x64 versions too.
Download URL: Click here File name: SearchServerExpress.exe Size: 248 MB
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Processor: 2.5 gigahertz (GHz) (minimum)
Memory: 2 gigabytes (GB) RAM (minimum)
Operating System: Any of the following […]

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Title: How to Sell, Deploy, and Build Business with Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and SBS 2003 R2File Name: Selling_WSS_and_SBS_Kit.zip Version: 1.0 Date Published: 11/15/2007 Language: English Download Size: 3.2 MBDownload URL: Click here
Description:  A new partner enablement tool that helps you create solutions using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Windows Small Business […]

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Thanks to everyone who attended the November 2007 Kentucky Small Business Server User Group (KYSBSUG) meeting last night on "Best Practices".
SPECIAL THANKS:

Thanks to all who attended, especially those traveling from Lexington.
Also, MAJOR thanks to Matthew Snoddy from Network Therapists for presenting!  We’re really looking forward to the Lexington SBS group launch in January! […]

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If you’ve got a member server in your SBS network (especially if that server is a beefy SQL box) it may make sense from a performance standpoint to install Windows SharePoint Services version 3 on the member server instead of directly on the SBS box.  This is actually a pretty straight-forward process, but in case […]

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You know him and love him from the 2005 & 2006 SBS Tours, the 70-282 Exam Prep Series 1 & 2, and numerous webcasts and live events.  And once again, I’m happy to announce that our favorite Microsoft TS2 Presenter, Ronald Grattopp, is coming back to Kentucky!

TS2 Live Seminar - Lexington, KYTuesday June 19, 2007Start […]

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Does your SharePoint http://companyweb site running on SBS 2003 or R2 still show missing icons for PDF files you’ve uploaded?  Tsk-tsk.
Solutions:
GOOD - Back in the day we used to fix this problem manually by uploading the 16×16 PDF icon, updating the XML file, and restarting IIS.  Tedious, but effective.
BETTER - Then in 2004 Chad Gross [SBS-MVP] created a cool ZIP […]

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I’ve been ‘rolling my own’ web parts for a while now like the Daily Dilbert, Local Radar, Bert&Ernie Terror Alert, Traffic Cam web parts, etc.  So it’s sad for me to see the default MSNBC Web Parts that are baked in to http://companyweb get the pink slip.  It’s kind of like watching Clippit die, but at least these […]

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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is now available for Windows Server 2003 in x86 and x64 versions.
Links:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Download (77.7 MB)
Installing WSS 3.0 on SBS 2003 (.doc) *
System Requirements
Compare WSS 3.0 to WSS 2.0 (.doc)
Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 (Visio)
Preview New Application Templates for WSS 3.0 
Downloads for WSS

*Note, per the WSS 3.0 & SBS whitepaper above:
“Some of the […]

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