if you have gone through this pain or are going through this, Please read on. Aivea uses MOSS 2007 virtual machines in production, when you move VM images around and the VM need to run in the same network without name issues, we need to rename SharePoint servers. Here is how you do it

• Change each alternate access mapping for your MOSS/WSS deployment in Central Administration:
  • Open Central Administration, "Operations" Tab, "Alternate access mappings" link
  • Modify each mapping item to reflect your newly chosen server name
• Use stsadm.exe to invoke the "renameserver" command option:
  • Open a command prompt window
  • cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN"
  • stsadm -o renameserver -newservername <newname> -oldservername <oldname>
• Rename your Server via Change Name Operation in Windows Server 2003:
  • Start Menu | Control Panel | System, "Computer Name" tab, "Change" button.
  • Input your new server name
• Reboot the server.
• After reboot, open command prompt
  • cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
  • stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin <domainuser> -password <password>
  • iisreset /noforce
• Check all application pool identities in IIS, update where the old machine name is still there.
• If you already have a search index drop this, and rebuild it
• Review all the site collection administrators from the central admin and update any credentials based on local user names.

This paper presents the key decision points, architecture design and definition, and test criteria and results from a scalability and performance test conducted at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) in Redmond, Washington. It is intended to provide strategic information about designing a high-volume, high-availability enterprise solution that can easily grow.

Great whitepaper - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120881&clcid=0x409 

Please check out http://www.aivea.com/sharepoint-training.htm

if you want to write some good workflow c# code, web parts etc. checkout http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper

Cheers

-Ravi

Aivea Microsoft Gold Partner and a premier SharePoint Consulting Services provider for Microsoft is conducting an excellent SharePoint 2007 Architecture and Administration class in beautiful Portland, Oregon on 07/28/08 – 07/29/08, The training fees include Hotel and Meals. If you are interested, please call 1-800-779-7506 or e-mail consulting@aivea.com

Please find the course details at:
http://www.aivea.com/sharepoint/aivea_sharepoint_arch_admin_training.pdf

Aivea won the Software + Service award for the architecture and technology innovation to connect on-premise ERP software through a non-binding Web Services based protocol to hosted Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 portal. The award was delivered to Jack Myers, Aivea VP of Sales by Microsoft General Manager, Jane Dickson on 05/21/2008 at Microsoft Portland office.

Please read more at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa699384.aspx and http://www.aivea.com/aivea-commerce-server.htm

[Via Ben Hickman's Blog]:

Starting tomorrow, there is a 10-part webcast series led by two SharePoint MVPs: Robert Bogue and Andrew Connell that covers 10 fundamental developer topics on SharePoint. The schedule is:

• Every Tuesday and Wednesday from May 20, 2008 (tomorrow!) to June 18, 2008
• Starts at 9AM PST (12PM EST)
• 60 minutes for each webcast

You can register for each webcast separately:

Date	Topic	Register
20-May-08	Web Parts	Register Today!
21-May-08	Data Lists	Register Today!
27-May-08	Silverlight and SharePoint	Register Today!
28-May-08	Using Event Handlers	Register Today!
3-Jun-08	Page Branding	Register Today!
4-Jun-08	Workflows	Register Today!
10-Jun-08	Web Services	Register Today!
11-Jun-08	Page Navigation	Register Today!
17-Jun-08	User Management	Register Today!
18-Jun-08	Custom Content Types	Register Today!

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is about a company's data. In today's tech savvy industry, documents generated by the hundreds every second, not to mention the plethora of legacy paper documents that have to be stored for the next seven to ten years. The issue is that there is a great deal of business intelligence in those documents that are scattered around a company and that can mean real money lost or gained. Indeed in today's business with ISO-9000, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPPA (to name a few of the regulations and standards) content management takes on a whole new meaning.

What is ECM?

According to the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) Enterprise Content Management (ECM) encompasses the technologies used to Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve, and Deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unstructured information wherever the information exists.

Who are some of the technology providers of ECM?

When you look at the ECM market, there are some large names from a variety of vertical markets associated with the technologies. Companies like Xerox, Oracle, IBM, EMC, Pitney Bowes, and Microsoft to name just a few. According to Gartner, the largest ECM providers in 2007 were Open Text Corporation, EMC/Documentum, IBM, and Oracle.

Where is ECM headed?

Having the content is good but there is better. The content is just data until it can be turned into information for running the business, known as Business Intelligence (BI). When you combine ECM and BI you get Enterprise Information Management (EIM). Companies with an Enterprise perspective are taking a growing interest in EIM.

As one looks at the market place they can not help but notice how Microsoft has entered the market and started commoditizing ECM with their SharePoint product. SharePoint works well as an ECM product and with the additional Performance Point product, the BI is added to the ECM capability of SharePoint; making it a viable EIM product. Indeed according to Gartner, Microsoft's entry into the ECM industry has started a transformation of the industry.

An additional benefit of ECM is the "Green Movement". By using a good ECM system, any business can make a significant step towards going paperless. That can be a significant savings and is a worthwhile effort in and of itself. Additionally, companies that have a number of locations will find an additional benefit of an ECM due to the collaboration capability.

All:

Aivea, Microsoft Gold Partner and a premier SharePoint Consulting Services provider for Microsoft is conducting an excellent SharePoint 2007 Architecture and Administration class in beautiful Portland, Oregon on 05/19 – 05/20, The training fees include Hotel and Meals. If you are interested, please call 1-800-779-7506 or e-mail consulting@aivea.com

Please find the course details at:
http://www.aivea.com/sharepoint/aivea_sharepoint_arch_admin_training.pdf

Thanks

-Pradeep

Many businesses are now investing starting $250 per employee with Aivea for Collaboration Tools that delivers operational excellence.

SharePoint Technology Solutions delivered by Aivea can promote a greener computing and work environment.

1. Reduces Printing, Faxing and Shipping by having documents, directories, profiles, lists and items dynamic and viewable in soft copy online and offline and most even in mobile views. SharePoint can store million of documents and allows google type search that delivers results in split seconds.

2. Promotes Server, Network and Storage Platform Consolidation - Having Search, Content Management, Collaboration/File Sharing, Portals, Dashboards, KPIs, Reports, Email enabled lists, Surveys, Doc Mgmt, Records, Team Calendars, Forms, etc... Shut down many old systems that are no longer needed.

3. Reduces Business Travel - being able to quickly and efficiently communicate over long distances more and more people can get their jobs done remotely and on the go.  Partners can collaborate with partners, business to consumer, CEO to the employees, teams and v-teams all can more efficiently communicate with each other.  Obvious integration with Live Communication Server and Office communicator/Windows or MSN Communicator even real time presence is available.  Without contacting a person you can understand what meetings they have (with Exchange integration) and when they are available.  Out of a group of people you can quickly view who is available and reduce the amount of time it would take to get information saving power.  Reaching out and using Live Meeting obviously reduces the travel by having the meeting online, but getting connected and sharing the files, team calendar, reports and information over SharePoint is a major part of that exchange.

4. Reduces Energy Consumption - Think how much time you save by finding documents and information via search.  Search itself reduces a ton of work that would otherwise be duplicated.  So much of our time is spend looking for resources and references.  The time we save here is energy even lights in our office we otherwise would spend looking for data.  This time we save would be wonderful if it meant we spent less time in the office, it may mean a shorter weekend and less time in the office, but otherwise, it simply means you get more work done in the same time it would have taken.  You don't spend less time at work, you're simply more efficient.  That energy may reduce the time the company would have spent and reduce the amount of employees the company would have to have thus reducing the amount of office space and hence power, heat, light, etc... so by making employees more efficient they can either reduce the employees or simply get more done with less which is likely closer to reality. 

5. Reduced Emissions Remote Employees & Telecomuting - One key scenario for reducing emissions and not burning fossil fuels is simply not to come to work.  I like that idea. 

Go Green! Save the planet!

The download links for the SharePoint Administration Toolkit

x64:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en

x86:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en

We are happy to announce the release of Aivea® RFP Manager™ software available on Software + Service model. Customers can buy the software or use the SaaS edition running in Aivea Datacenter in Beaverton, OR.

Aivea® RFP Manager™ is a web-based RFP/RFQ, Bid and Quotation Management Software solutions that allows your company to electronically manage RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, Bids and Quotations across multiple offices, vendors and suppliers. Using only a web browser and it is the easiest way to use the power of the internet to provide a scalable business-wide RFP/RFQ, Bid and Quotation Management solution for your company or governmental agency.

Aivea® RFP Manager™ is built on the latest Microsoft.NET 3.5 Framework, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using ASP.NET, AJAX, C#, XML, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and SQL Server 2005.

More details at http://www.aivea.com/aivea-rfp-manager.htm