Interested in all the new things in SP2? Here is a complete list.

And this is the complete download site with links for the SP2 itself, a new BOL, new Samples, new Feature Pack and especially the links to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies and SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007.

To avoid a restart after the installation of the SP2 you should stop the neccessary services which could be done with the following commands on the command line - if you have used the standard instances:

net stop MSSQLSERVER
net stop MSSQLServerOLAPService
net stop msftesql
net stop MsDtsServer
net stop ReportServer

After the installation the "SQL Server 2005 User Provisioning Tool is started automatically if you use Windows Vista. As you probably know, Windows Admins are not automatically also SQL or AS Admins  - this tool enables to set the right privileges to the administartor accounts.

But do not forget to start the services before you try to set the privileges...

If you want to add a new account you will have to start the Provisioning Tool again, but unluckily it is not added to the Start Menu, you will find it at:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\SqlProv.exe - assumed that you have a standard installation and an english version of MS Windows Vista.

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As posted nearly a month ago, Microsoft announced some usefull tools for Lotus Notes and Domino Migration.

The Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino is now available for download - there is a seperate whitepaper, which explains the usage of the tool.

Extract from the website:
"The Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino is a tool that helps organizations to analyze their Lotus Notes/Domino application environment. It generates reports based on a number of application properties such as last accessed/modified dates, template types and the presence of workflow. Based upon the reports generated by this tool, customers can quickly identify applications that should not be migrated (such as administration applications or unused applications), applications that can easily be migrated to Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) templates and applications that require additional analysis."

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Some MSDN articles about developing webparts

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Bill Simser has written a long article called "DotNetNuke vs. SharePoint, the big showdown" which gives a real good view on this both "platforms".

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Brian Rogers provides an article which describes an unfortunately unsupported way for the fact, that that authenticated users granted Reader access to a SharePoint site also have access to the Site Settings page without having the appropriate rights, which could lead to unnecessary questions and therefor to administrative overhead.

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Paul Schaeflein has published an interesting article about Building a Searchable Phone Directory with Windows SharePoint Services where he only uses FrontPage and the WebInterface of WSS to implement a searchable list based on a databasetable.

This will be the result:

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