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Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007   This article has been updated with information about the October Cumulative Update, which contains several hotfixes and improvements to the Pre-Upgrade checker.

Administer variations   This article has been updated to note that if you want to add nonpublishing pages to the Pages library, you must create the variations labels and hierarchies before adding nonpublishing items to the Pages library.

Database and storage articles updated for SQL Server 2008   The following articles have been updated to refer to Microsoft SQL Server 2008:

• Physical topology recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)

• Physical storage recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)

• Choose what to protect (Office SharePoint Server)

• Choose backup and recovery tools (Office SharePoint Server)

• Deploy using DBA-created databases (Office SharePoint Server)

• Database maintenance for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (white paper)

• Database types and descriptions (Office SharePoint Server)

• Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance

SharePoint guidance for SQL Server database administrators (Downloadable book)   This downloadable book is a guide for database administrators who implement or maintain Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It provides guidelines for improving the performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions that run on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. It also provides information about key considerations for configuring storage and SQL Server 2008 before installing Office SharePoint Server 2007; the required steps in installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 when using DBA-created databases; backup and recovery considerations for Office SharePoint Server 2007, including what can and cannot be protected by SQL Server 2008 backups; and maintaining and monitoring SQL Server 2008 databases that support an Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation.

Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (white paper)   This paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Office SharePoint Server 2007 plan and monitor their SQL Server storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms. It has been updated to address the capabilities of SQL Server 2008.

Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007) and Prepare to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   These articles have been updated with a table containing updated Lotus Notes Client and Domino Server versions.

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007   This article has been updated with information about the August Cumulative Update.

Osearch: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated to include three new parameters that affect index performance and maintenance: reprovisionindex, cleansearchdatabase, and ssp.

Restore: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been rewritten based on community feedback.

Configure a server farm for minimal downtime during software updates (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes how to update Office SharePoint Server 2007 farms with minimal downtime. By following the procedures in this article, you can update servers to add the latest service pack or cumulative update without incurring significant downtime for users.

SharePoint intranet portal governance (white paper)   This sample governance plan helps users outline the administration, maintenance, and support of an Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment in an enterprise. The plan is based on a fictitious company that is implementing collaboration, Web content management, and an intranet portal that includes departmental portals.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled help format (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=124606)   All Office SharePoint Server 2007 documentation found in the TechNet library is available in downloadable .chm format. This download has been updated to include all content in the library as of September 17, 2009.

Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance   This article lists the performance counters that we recommend that you use to monitor the performance of the SQL Server databases that are running in your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. Also listed are approximate healthy values for each counter.

Physical storage recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)   This article has been updated to include the recommendation that before a new farm is deployed, the I/O subsystem be benchmarked by using the SQLIO disk subsystem tool.

SharePoint Internet presence governance plan (white paper)   This sample governance plan is designed to help illustrate how to use the functionality of Office SharePoint Server 2007 for a public Internet site. The fictitious company in this paper plans to use the functionality to ensure that site content is consistent, updated in a timely manner, branded in line with corporate standards, and tightly controlled.

SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Office SharePoint Server)   Version 4.0 of the Administration Toolkit includes the following:

• Updates to the SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag)

• UnlockFGPReport: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

• Updatequota: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

• Security Configuration Wizard Manifest for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Move content databases between instances of SQL Server (Office SharePoint Server 2007) and Migrate content databases from Windows Internal Database or SQL Server Express Edition to an instance of SQL Server (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   These articles have been updated with a note explaining that if you have installed a software update that includes the Infrastructure Update, you must not run the Stsadm preparetomove operation.

Large-file-chunk-size: Stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server)   This article was updated to clarify how to calculate chunk size for a particular file.

Use crawl rules to determine what content gets crawled (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article has been updated with information about how to use a global exclusion crawl rule, which applies regardless of the order in which it is listed.

Case Study of High Availability for SharePoint Server by Using Virtualized Environments and Database Mirroring   This paper highlights the lessons learned from a proof-of-concept configuration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 across two data centers that included database mirroring. The environment runs on Hyper-V, hosted on the 64-bit edition of the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system with Service Pack 1. The mirroring solution that this paper describes is based on the architecture that is described in the following white paper: Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83725).

Best practices for search performance (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes best practices that you can use to maintain a healthy and efficient search system in Office SharePoint Server 2007. Topics include what to monitor, how to diagnose query bottlenecks, how to optimize SQL Server, and how to avoid bottlenecks caused by access control lists.

Two excerpts from the book Professional Microsoft Search: SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Wiley).   Chapter 5 steps you through the architecture of the BDC, how to connect it to your systems, how to use the systems in SharePoint Server, and how to write programs that use the BDC object model. Chapter 7 covers the federation features in detail, including what the federation framework looks like, how to configure and customize a Federated Location, what the new Federation Web parts do, and how you can configure them.

Book excerpt: Wrox Press: Real World SharePoint 2007   This excerpt includes Chapter 4, “Developing publishing sites the smart and structured way.”

Configure site directory links scan   The site directory links scan searches site directory views for broken links. This article has been updated to show the correct format of the URL for the site directory to be scanned.

Create an installation source that includes software updates (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Service Pack 2.

Configure Web Part properties (SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes how to configure properties that are common across search Web Parts.

Configure properties for the Search High Confidence Results Web Part (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes how you can use the Search High Confidence Results Web Part to display the results of many types of automatic searches.

Configure properties for the Search Core Results Web Part (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes how to configure the Search Core Results Web Part to control how search results are displayed and to return the most relevant results based on keywords and property filters.

Configure properties for the Search Box Web Part (Office SharePoint Server 2007)   This article describes how you can edit the properties of the Search Box Web Part to change how the Web Part appears and responds to users.

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007   This article contains information about the June Cumulative Update. In addition, it contains important guidance about detaching databases in SharePoint farms that use Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 as a farm component.

Large-file-chunk-size: Stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server)   This article was updated with a correction to command syntax.