Service Pack 3 for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0

This service pack contains all the Cumulative Updates and Public Updates for Office 2007 that have shipped since SP2 for both the Office client suites and applications, and the SharePoint server applications. The Project Server updates are included along with the SharePoint updates in the Office Servers SP3 updates. SP3 also contains additional new fixes which are described here. For a list of changes for each product, please refer to their individual KBs. The KB Articles referenced below will be updated throughout the day to include the live links to the published articles.

Starting today, SP3 is available from the Download center. The Downloads Table below provides links to the new packages for SP3. If you have installed all Office Automatic Updates, you will also see SP3 available as a manual download from Microsoft Update. After a 90 day period, SP3 will be offered as an automatic update through Microsoft Update.

Download Links:

WSS 3.0 Service Pack 3

MOSS 2007 Service Pack 3

More details:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/10/25/office-2007-and-sharepoint-2007-service-pack-3-availability.aspx

New SharePoint 2010 Implementers Courseware,

New SharePoint 2010 Implementers Courseware, Two Courses:

• Internet Sites Implementers
• Enterprise Content Management Implementers

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pandrew/archive/2011/08/01/sharepoint-2010-implementers-courseware.aspx

SharePoint 2010 WCM(Web Content Management) Features

Excellent article about SharePoint 2010 WCM(Web Content Management) Features by Sangya Singh
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2010/03/12/introducing-web-content-management-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Magic Quadrant reports(Gartner Research) for 2011, 2010 & 2009

Here is the useful link that includes Magic Quadrant reports(Gartner Research), MarketScope etc..

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/default.mspx

SharePoint is leading Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals

Here is the good news:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/cbortlik/archive/2010/10/19/congratulations-to-sharepoint-product-team-for-achieving-1-ranking-on-gartner-s-2010-horizontal-portals-magic-quadrant.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

This article describes software boundaries and limits of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. These include the following:

• Boundaries: Static limits that cannot be exceeded by design
  
  
• Thresholds: Configurable limits that can be exceeded to accommodate specific requirements
  
  
• Supported limits: Configurable limits that have been set by default to a tested value

SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Planning, Sizing Tool

These white papers and articles include information about the performance and capacity characteristics of the feature and how it was tested by Microsoft, including:

• Test farm characteristics
  
  
• Test results
  
  
• Recommendations
  
  
• Troubleshooting performance and scalability

Find all these stuff at : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff608068.aspx

The HP Sizer for Sharepoint 2010 is available for download at following link

http://h71019.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0-0-0-121.html

SharePoint Server 2010 Product Contents & Resources

Aggregated links to find out more about implementing Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, as well as related products and technologies:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428287.aspx

SharePoint 2010 SP-1 is available for download Now

Know more about it @ SharePoint Team Blog

SharePoint Random Picture Viewer Webpart

Intro: Random picture viewer webpart reads the picture randomly from SharePoint "Picture Library" & displays it in specific size.
Description: It is a dataview webpart, following are steps to use this webpart :

1. Download "PictureViewer.webpart" webpart file from here
2. On your site page browse & upload the webpart
3. Add the webpart at desired location on page
4. Edit webpart properties --> Parameter editor & set ListId parameter=[List ID of Picture Library in your website]
5. Save the changes & go...it's done

Note: this webpart is designed to work with SharePoint picture library only.