Nice to be back after 2 weeks of vacation. 1 week spent in Rome, Italy and another week at moving into a new apartment. So i’ll be offline for another week at home, before I get my ADSL line installed at the new place.
Monthly Archive for July, 2006
Mark Kruger (SharePoint MVP) has done a great job in aggregating resources for SharePoint and he has posted a more or less complete list of free 3rd party webparts and tools for SharePoint.
For those who aggregate my feed and do not often visit the blog iteself… I’ve updated my SharePoint links and their groupings on the blog (can only be seen by visiting) but I’ll update this post as well. The notable list of links include: FREE 3rd Party SharePoint Web Parts, SharePoint Tools, and SharePoint Resource Information.
Check his complete and updated list here.
Found a cool and easy to use log analyzer tool named WebLog Expert, it’s available in a free edition and an enterprise edition. It’s fast and it can generate some nice reports from IIS logfiles.
WebLog Expert is a powerful access log analyzer. It will give you information about your site’s visitors: activity statistics, accessed files, paths through the site, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, and more. The program produces easy-to-read HTML reports that include both text information (tables) and charts. View the WebLog Expert sample report to get the general idea of the variety of information about your site’s usage it can provide.
Read more about the full features at source.
Download it here.
Another recommendable log analyzer is Awstats, which I’ve mention before.
Microsoft has released another video cast on Channel 9 about IIS 7, this one is about how developers can extend IIS 7.
Brett (IIS Technical Evangelist), Thomas (IIS Group PM) and James (DPE Group Manager and the guy behind the camera) discuss the many ways you can extend the IIS 7 pipeline, UI, and troubleshooting in IIS7. Thomas shows off an end-to-end demo that is available on IIS.net.
See the video at Channel 9 – length 39.45 min.
See the complete list of IIS videos on Channel 9.
Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2004 as a free product now. Earlier Microsoft also released Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 as a free product. SP1 beta 1 for Virtual Server 2005 R2 is downloaded from Microsoft.
Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you’re just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 absolutely free. Microsoft is also offering the free download of Virtual PC 2007, with support for Windows Vista in 2007.
Download Virtual PC 2004
Download Virtual Server 2005 R2
VMware has finally released VMware Server 1.0 (formerly known as Vmware GSX), it’s their free version of a Virtual Server product. The product has been in beta the last few months. What looks really good in the product is the feature with the ability to capture entire state of a virtual machine and roll back at any time with the click of a single button, that’s perfect for development and test systems.
VMware Server is feature-packed with the following capabilities:
- Runs on standard x86 hardware
- Support for 64-bit guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, NetWare and Solaris
- Support for VMware VirtualCenter to efficiently provision, monitor and manage infrastructure from a central management console
- Experimental support for 2-Way Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors
- Runs on a wider variety of Linux and Windows host and guest operating systems than any server virtualization product on the market
- Ability to capture entire state of a virtual machine and roll back at any time with the click of a single button
- Installs like an application with quick and easy, wizard-driven installation
- Quick and easy, wizard-driven virtual machine creation
- Support for VMware or Microsoft virtual machine format and Symantec LiveState Recovery images with VM Importer
- Experimental support for Intel Virtualization Technology
- Investment protection with an easy upgrade path to VMware Infrastructure
Read more about it at Vmware’s Press release.
Download Vmware Server 1.0.
Matt Michie has posted an article on using PowerShell securely remote through SSH using Cygwin.
One of the first things that an admin wants to do with PowerShell is run remotely. To do this securely, you must encrypt your data. SSH has been the proven way to do this. So the question becomes, how do I connect SSH and PowerShell together?
Read the full article at source.
Want to have forms authentication in Sharepoint, try to have a look at the articles below.
How to setup Forms Authentication for WSS 3.0 in 7 Days (Nice development lifecycle 
) which is inpired from SharePoint 2007 Forms Authentication by Nick Swan. Nicks solution is using some cool Login Controls for SharePoint from ASP.NET Quick Start.
