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    August 31

    OPML - SharePoint Bloggers

    Here is the OPML file that contains a list of active SharePoint bloggers. Updated on 08/30/2007.Feel free to drop a line If I have missed any SharePoint blogger.

    Initially taken from Mark Kruger's blog.

    Also, here is the XSD (XML Schema, reverse engineered from an OPML file, not an official one though. Not intended for production use!) file that if you want to use to create your own OPML file.

     

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    Guru
    August 30

    Good list of POINTS to remember!

    Good article for SharePoint Administrators from Joel Oleson. Perhaps, some of them are MUST to be in the Todo list.

    More..

    Happy SharePointing! :)

    -Guru

    White Paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007

    Good one! Deals with different data access methods for SharePoint Lists and their performance characteristics against

    different user loads and modes of operation.

    Excerpt:

    The test results in this white paper are intended to demonstrate the difference in the performance characteristics of SharePoint lists containing large numbers of items when different data access types are used to present list contents. Test results in this white paper show how to optimize list performance through limits on the number of items that appear in a list, and by choosing the most appropriate method of retrieving list contents.  More..

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     Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server) related to this post.

    August 28

    Microsoft BDC Metadata Editor announced!

     

    I just noticed that Microsoft has announced BDC Metadata Editor. This is cool! It will save a lot of time when it comes

    to creating BDC application definition. I like the part that it creates Associations when foreign key are selected.

    Highlights

    • Tool supports databases (SQL, Oracle, OLEDB, and ODBC) and web services
    • Drag and drop design surface for selecting DB tables or web methods:
    • Metadata is automatically extracted from databases by dragging and dropping tables
    • Web Services require a few additional steps to completely configure the connection
    • Users can import and export Application Definition XML files
    • Users are able to test method instances incrementally from within the tool
    • The tool is not required to run on a web front-end
    • Associations are created automatically when foreign keys are selected; they can also be created easily for web services by adding an Association method instance

    For more details click here 

    -Guru