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On technet is a new book available about the deployment for MOSS 2007:

Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007

This book provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of deploying a solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The audiences for this book are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, information architects, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are deploying a solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007.

I created a manual how people can create a custom search engine at live search:

Link

Yesterday Microsoft release Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth, areally cool tool. It can create a 3D image of other Images(from yourself and others), see the link for more info and download: 

Link to Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth – What is Photosynth?

Just read on microsoft.com:

Microsoft Launches Forefront Security for SharePoint Beta

New product provides advanced protection for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

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Microsoft Resources:

Forefront Web site

REDMOND, Wash. – Sept. 28, 2006 – Microsoft Corp. today is launching the public beta of Forefront Security for SharePoint^r (http://www.microsoft.com/forefront). This latest release of Microsoft^r Forefront security products for businesses is based on Antigen for SharePoint Server, the multi-engine security solution acquired by Microsoft as part of the acquisition of Sybari Software Inc. in 2005.

Forefront Security for SharePoint is optimized to provide advanced protection for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows^r SharePoint Services 3.0. Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies facilitate easy collaboration across an organization, connecting people, processes and systems within and beyond organizational boundaries. Forefront Security for SharePoint uses the combined power of multiple antivirus engines from leading security providers to protect against viruses, unwanted files and inappropriate content.

“As business customers use collaboration software to connect internal users, customers and partners in an increasing variety of ways, they want to maintain the highest level of protection for critical business information,” said Margaret Arakawa, senior director of Security and Access Product Marketing at Microsoft. “Forefront Security for SharePoint facilitates these new collaboration scenarios by providing a layer of advanced protection against the rapidly evolving threat landscape.”

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint delivers the following:

Protection against the latest threats. Forefront Security for SharePoint simultaneously utilizes up to five antivirus engines from leading security vendors to provide customers with increased protection against malware threats, inappropriate content and dangerous files types. This latest release includes the new Microsoft Antivirus engine.

Integration to help optimize server performance.: Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, as well as scanning innovations and performance controls, help ensure optimal collaboration server performance.

Simplified management control.: Forefront Security for SharePoint provides centralized management control to help ensure organizations can simply and cost-effectively deploy, manage and maintain the security of their collaboration servers.

“We have been using Antigen for SharePoint for the last three years to help protect our SharePoint installation, which serves 20,000 Getronics employees globally,” said Romolo Pallini, vice president of Infrastructure & Networks at Getronics. “As we begin evaluating the 2007 version of SharePoint Products and Technologies, we look forward to testing this next-generation Forefront security product, which continues Antigen's fine tradition of multiple scan engine protection for collaboration servers.”

Read the whole article here.

I have a lot of trouble installing MOSS 2007 beta2 TR, but today I found a great article of Jim Wilt, thanks Jim for the great installation guide!!

https://sharepoint.metricsreporting.com/Shared%20Documents/Successful%20MOSS%20Beta%202%20TR%20Slipstream%20Install%20Screen%20by%20Screen.pdf

Jim his site: https://sharepoint.metricsreporting.com/default.aspx

Today I was working with MOSS 2007, creating some site groups.  But when adding some new site groups to MOSS 2007 and I wanted the same AD group name as member, moss 2007 didn't accepted. I thougt 2003 did accept.

Sitegroupname:                AD group

Teachers                          Teachers

So always choose a differtent sitegroupname as AD group, I normally always do.

Today I created a site in MOSS 2007 that I want to save as a template to use on other site. I was unable to find the link in site settings: ' Save site as template", after searching the net I found this solution:

Just add " _layouts/savetmpl.aspx"  at your URL of your site, and their is your screen to save the site as template.

I don't known the source anymore, but here one of mike walsh:

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=749

Mark Harrison has a great article how to add search from MOSS 2007 to your IE browser.

(Rename xxxx with the name of your MOSS machine)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearchScopesPeople]
"DisplayName"="Search people"
"URL"="http://xxxx/searchcenter/pages/people_results.aspx?k={searchTerms}"

Check his complete article here.

Microsoft released a nice new video about the web content management in Office Sharepoint Server 2007.

Click here to see it.

When looking at some new online courses, I saw at the microsoftlearning site some nice free clinics of Office 2007:

Clinic 3041: Deploying Microsoftr Windows VistaT and the 2007 Office System Client Products (Beta)

Summary: In this clinic, you explore Windows Vista deployment scenarios and the technologies and tools included in Windows Vista to simplify deployment. In addition, you explore the 2007 Office System Client deployment and migration scenarios and the tools available to simplify deployment.
Audience: IT Pro
Available Offline: Yes
Price: Free, 90-day subscription

Clinic 3199: Getting Started with the 2007 Microsoftr Office System (Beta)

Summary: In this clinic, you explore the 2007 Microsoftr Office System to understand how it provides many benefits to an organization including enhanced collaboration, personal productivity and an effective enterprise content management solution.
You are also provided with an overview of the server and client components that make up the 2007 Office System.
Audience: IT Pro
Available Offline: Yes
Price: Free, 90-day subscription

Clinic 3369: Getting Started with Microsoftr Windowsr SharePointr Services 3.0 (Beta)

Summary: In this clinic, you explore the features and technologies new to Microsoftr Windowsr SharePointr Services (WSS) 3.0.
You are also provided with information about deployment, configuration and migration to WSS 3.0.
Audience: IT Pro
Available Offline: Yes
Price: Free, 90-day subscription

Clinic 3370: Getting Started with Microsoftr Office SharePointr Server 2007 (Beta)

Summary: In this clinic, you explore the 2007 Microsoftr Office System to understand how it provides many benefits to an organization including enhanced collaboration, personal productivity and an effective enterprise content management solution.
You are also provided with an overview of the server and client components that make up the 2007 Office System.
Audience: IT Pro
Available Offline: Yes
Price: Free, 90-day subscription

Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with Microsoftr Windowsr SharePointr Services 3.0

Summary: In this 2-hour premium clinic you will learn about the rich capabilities that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 offers to developers. The clinic will focus on Architecture and List Management, Building and Extending Windows SharePoint Sites, and Packaging and Deploying Windows SharePoint services solutions.
Audience: Developer
Available Offline: Yes
Price: Free, 1-year subscription

Clinic 5046: Inside Look at Building and Developing Solutions with Microsoftr Office SharePointr Server 2007

Summary: In this 2-hour premium clinic you will learn about the rich capabilities that Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers to developers. The clinic will focus on Fundamentals of Building Solutions with Office SharePoint Server 2007, Building Business Solutions with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and how to Incorporate Office SharePoint Services into Business solutions.
Audience: Developer
Available Offline: Yes

For more info, click on this link.