25 Feb 09 Newly Noted #20

BizTalk

BizTalk Adapter Pack V2.0 Beta – Released!: The BizTalk Adapter pack v2.0 Beta can now be downloaded from Microsoft Connect.
BizTalk Performance: Some checks to run when your BizTalk Server performance isn’t up to par.
Cleanup BizTalk Servers MgmtDb: Johan Hedberg blogs about cleaning up the BizTalk Management database.

SharePoint

Why two SharePoint Search services?: Jag explains why MOSS has two Search services
SharePoint Permissions:Jeremy Thake outlines the minimal permission levels required to perform certain actions in SharePoint
Building a SharePoint Development Environment: Rick Kierner & Jeremy Thake describe how you can set up a standardized SharePoint development environment.
Hyper-V SharePoint Development Image: USB 2.0 vs. eSATA vs. C:\ shootout: A really interesting SharePoint development system performance comparison.
Using SharePoint instead of email attachments: Todd Klindt’s has created a solution to use SharePoint to mail around links to documents instead of the actual documents themselves.

Development

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010: Jason Zander takes the covers of the new WPF-based look for Visual Studio 2010

Software

Snow Leopard screenshots show interface tweaks: AppleInsider has more Snow Leopard screenshots
Ballmer: Office 14 not this year: Apparently we’ll have to be a bit patient before we see the next version of Office.
Apple Announces Safari 4—The World’s Fastest & Most Innovative Browser: According to Apple, Safari 4 is the fastest browser around. Do we need to read anything into this announcement given the fact that IE8 has just been RTM’ed, or is this just coincidence?

Industry

Gmail outage: It’s on moments like these when we suddenly all realize how important a single company like Google has become in our daily lives and business…