ESSAY FROM A CHILD - A teacher from Primary School asks her students to write a essay aboutwhat they would like God to do for them...At the end of the day while marking the essays, she read one that madeher very emotional. Her husband, that had just walked in saw her cryingand asked her: - What happened?She answered - Read this. It's one of my students essaysOh God, tonight I ask you something very special: Make me into atelevision. I want to take its place. Live like the TV in my house. Havemy own special place, And have my family around ME. To be takenseriously when I talk.... I want to be the centre of attention and beheard without interruptions or questions. I want to receive the samespecial care that the TV receives when it is not working. Have thecompany of my dad when he arrives home from work, even when he is tired.And I want my mom to want me when she is sad and upset, instead ofignoring me... And... I want my brothers to fight to be with me... Iwant to feel that family just leaves everything aside, every now andthen, just to spend some time with me. And last but not least make itthat I can make them all happy and entertain them...Lord I don't ask you for much... I just want to live like every TVAt that moment the husband said:- 'My God, poor kid. What horribleparents!She looked up at him and said:- 'That essay is our son's!!!

The people in your organization who have the largest capacity to add value are not necessarily those who have the best titles or the most impressive educations. They may also not be the easiest people to manage. Here are three "dos" and "don'ts" for leading the smartest people in the room:

• Do explain things and persuade them but don't tell them what to do — smart people don't take a leader's word at face value; they need to understand why they're being asked to do something.
• Do use your expertise but don't use your hierarchy — smart people aren't impressed with titles.
• Do tell them what to do but don't tell them how to do it — smart people enjoy figuring out how to do things and will almost always rise to the challenge.
  
  Curtesy - Harvard Business Publishing

Functionality Central Administration Stsadm command-line tool

Back up the server farm Yes Yes

Recover the server farm,
except the configuration
& Central Administration
databases Yes Yes

Recover the configuration
and Central
Administration databases No No
BackUp Web applications Yes Yes
BackUp an SSP Yes Yes
BackUp site collections No Yes
BackUp content databases Yes Yes
BackUp customizations No No
Schedule backups No Yes, (task scheduler)

SharePoint Advanced lectures and white papers available
Advanced lectures and white papers
Updated: February 07, 2008
Watch lectures delivered by experts in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and download and read supporting white papers.
Title
Description
Streaming Video
White Paper
Overview: Office SharePoint Server server farm architecture
Describes how to plan server farms for reliability and scalability, and how to deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a server farm.
None
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Overview: Configuring server farms
Describes configuration steps needed for server farms after deployment.
Watch
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Securing server farms
Describes how to help control access to information and how to help protect deployments from malicious users.
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Configuring performance options
Describes how to set up caching, IIS compression, and other options to help maximize performance of an Office SharePoint Server server farm.
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None
Backing up and restoring Office SharePoint Server server farms
Describes how to back up and recover Office SharePoint Server server farms.
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Operations and management
Provides information about common operations and management tasks.
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Capacity planning
Describes how to determine requirements to support your capacity requirements.
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Search architecture and configuration
Describes how to plan for and configure search for Office SharePoint Server.
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http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f27b1c10-aa0f-421b-8c8f-0ed52be863d71033.mspx?mfr=true

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish. If the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh.

To solve this problem, fish companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer.

However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish. And they did not like the taste of frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So, fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.

After a little thrashing around, they were tired, dull, and lost their fresh-fish taste. The fishing industry faced an impending crisis! But today, they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan.

How did they manage? To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks but with a small shark.

The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move.

The challenge they face keeps them alive and fresh!!!!!

Some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired and dull ?

Basically in our lives, sharks are new challenges to keep us active. If one steadily conquers challenges, one can be happy.

Challenges keep one energized. We have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference. Put a shark in the tank and see how far one can really go!





"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character" – Albert Einstein

Master Page Framework (Using default.master – Top Down approach)

· Basic idea is to overwrite default css class (core.css, calendar.css).
· Create custom.master page under _catalog\masterpages by save as from default.master
· Do not rename any page by share point designer
· Keep check in & publish by major version, time to time as MOSS automatically control version.
· Attach custom.css in master page under tag.……….< link href="GHI.CSS" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" >
· Use multiple classes to overwrite necessary attribute.
· Overwrite only those classes which are required to change.Example master page has these entry Now “ms-body” is written in core.css and its linked with master page by default.ms-body{background-color: blue;padding-left: 10px;}now we have two ways to change it from blue to green(1) Write own class i.e. .bg-color{background-color: green;}and use it inside tag’s class attribute Note: It will only overwrite background-color property not “padding-left” property.(2) Otherwise overwrite “ms-body” class inside custom.css.ms-body{background-color: green;}
· Always separate css class, by properly commenting them, according to their use in master page./*======== for top nav bar ============*/css classescss classes/*======== for left nav bar ============*/css classescss classes/*======== for Calendar===============*/
· Do not delete any single thing from master page
· Never drag any table portion while designing master page. It will cause the absolute position. Always change in code by typing. Remember that “design view” is to understand the structure and we can reach to the code quickly, by selecting desire component
· Hide component, when it’s not require, but never delete it.
· Concentrate on all css class while changing one css class. like while changing color attribute “ms-banner”, one need to go through “DIV.ms-banner” & “SPAN.ms-banner” & “DIV.ms-banner A”
· Remove changes immediately in master pages while it’s not effecting. Concept is to make only useful changes and keep master page as clean as possible.
· Save as master page into hard disk while sing anybody. Never roll back this operation.Do not restore css files which saved under hard disk. Its cause’s css class partition.
· Check master page in all possible pages.