Jesper Lönnqvist’s Blog

This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation that is named the Contoso Training Management application demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and application lifecycle management challenges.

This guidance discusses the following:

• Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging.
• Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter, such as when to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information.
• Implementation examples that are demonstrated in the Training Management application and in the QuickStarts.
• How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
• How to set up different environments including the development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
• How to manage the application life cycle through development, test, deployment, and upgrading.
• Team-based intranet application development.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203468.aspx

A commonly asked question is: Should I move all my files from my fileservers to SharePoint? As always the answer depends… Bob Mixon and Joel Olesson has a couple of interesting posts on the subject, have a look at them before you decide what’s best for your organization.

Bob Mixon:
http://www.sharesquared.com/blogs/bobmixon/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=eb030c45-c8d8-4886-a7b4-fdb1c03a1274&ID=36

Joel Olesson:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/01/02/is-the-file-server-dead.aspx

The Office SharePoint Server 2007 RTM is finally available for download here. This is a trial version, but it should be possible to upgrade it just by entering a product key during or after the trial has expired.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are now available for download here.

This is an update to the Beta 2 version of a 2007 Office system product. Beta 2 Technical Refresh updates are compatible with the Windows Vista RC1 pre-release product.

IMPORTANT: Please read the update documentation, referenced in the "To install this download" section on this page, BEFORE applying this Beta 2 Technical Refresh update. The documents list several steps that you must complete prior to installation to ensure a successful update. This is NOT a single click update.

Download it here.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Beta) SDK contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, code samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007.

Download it here.

• New User Experience
• Enterprise Content Management
• Knowledge Management
• Business Intelligence
• Server Development
• Developing in Word 2007
• Core Excel Advances
• InfoPath Forms In Outlook
• New File Format
• Office 2007 Servers
• WSS Collaboration
• Document Management

I’ve just completed an installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and I encountered a problem when I was trying to add a Shared Service Provider to the new farm. The documentation states that one should create a web application to host the SSP and when you create your SSP you just select the web app that you have. But in my case the list of web apps were empty, no matter of how many web apps I created.

So I turned to stsadm to create a SSP instead, wich worked perfectly. Just run stsadm.exe -o createssp to get a list of options for creating your SSP.

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit for 2007 Office System (Beta 2) contains ECM feature extension code samples, supplemental developer white papers, and Microsoft® Visual Studio® project templates for workflow in Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 (Beta 2 version).

Download here.