The Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog has announced the availability of the first version of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit.
It will consist of the following tools:

User Profile Replication Engine 2010
The Security Configuration (SCW) Manifest
The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector
The Load Testing Kit (LTK)

For documentation and detailed tools information go to this article.

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MarC on November 6th, 2009

A nice list I have to use quite a lot in SharePoint and Infopath is the all currencies list. I don’t know anymore where I found it but you can download it here at information-worker.nl.
Download the list.

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Because of the strict security on Windows Server 2008 it is no longer possible to just copy and paste the dll files to the GAC like we did with version 2.5. You have to do this with a tool called GACutil.exe. This tool can be found (when you have installed Visual Studio 8 ) in [...]

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MarC on October 20th, 2009

Nintex announced october 19th that Nintex Workflow 2010 will be shipping shortly after the launch of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Nintex is demonstrating a pre-release version of the software at this week’s Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. 
Innovations the 2010 release of Nintex Workflow will offer include:

Full support for new workflow capabilities in the [...]

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MarC on October 19th, 2009

As Microsoft prepares to release Visual Studio 2010 for Windows 7, Office 2010 and a new line Windows servers about to come on tap, Microsoft is taking another stab. This time, the company is spicing the packaging mix by throwing in hours of access to its Azure cloud plus upgrades to a new, top-of-the-line Visual [...]

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MarC on October 12th, 2009

Below you will find part of the newsletter Nintex send to their partners.
Nintex Workflow 2007 v1.10 is now available for all language packs
[...]
Nintex Workflow 2007, the award winning workflow designer for Microsoft SharePoint, now features new innovations and improvements in all language versions.
Nintex Workflow 2007 is now available in eleven languages including English, Czech, Dutch, [...]

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MarC on August 25th, 2009

Today I did some consultancy work at a customer site. They had renamed the title site column at the root level in the item content type. They were complaining that it appeared everywhere on all sites and in all lists. I changed the name with a tool called SharePoint Manager 2007. See screenshots below.
Open SPM2007, [...]

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MarC on August 10th, 2009

Today I had to compare to CSS files. One of the test SharePoint farm and one of the production SharePoint farm. I found a nice free tool for this on the internet.
It is called DiffMerge and can be found here. See a screenshot below.

With one click you can add all the changes to the other [...]

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