It seems that at the start of the summer season, some interesting new goodies have become available. Nice period to start trying them out. Thanks Mark for the info.

• SMove for SharePoint is a utility that takes the pain out of backing up, restoring and rearranging SharePoint Sites. Features include a UI for backup/restore, modifying SharePoint properties and other common SharePoint administration tasks. SharePoint sites can be moved and your taxonomy rearranged using Drag and Drop in a rich context sensitive TreeView.
  
• The Microsoft SQL Server Report Pack for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is a set of 8 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with a sample database of information extracted from a SharePoint Portal Server environment. This database can be populated from your own SharePoint Portal Server environment using the downloadable Data Extraction Program (DEP). The DEP will read the SharePoint Portal Server data via the object model. You also can use the sample reports as templates for designing new reports. This Report Pack includes the following reports:
  
  • Storage Report
    Shows a listing of the virtual servers and the number of collections, sites, areas, lists, files and size. Also shows a size distribution and storage usage chart, and a top 20 sites based on size.
  • Storage Trend Report
    Shows four charts illustrating the virtual server storage trend, site collection growth trend, area growth trend and list growth trend.
  • Site Trend Report
    Shows hit counts for virtual servers, collections, areas and lists. Also shows the top 20 sites based on hits.
  • Comprehensive Site Collections Report
    Shows the list of site collections, who owns the collection, configurable characteristics about the owner and the date the collection was last accessed.
  • Detailed Site Collection Report
    Shows top 20 pages accessed (based on hit count) for this site collection.
  • Detailed Page Report
    Shows users who have access to the page, when they last accessed it, any referrer URL and number of hits. Also shows two charts illustrating user distribution and referrer distribution.
  • Best Bet Keyword
    Shows top 20, top 10, bottom 10, or bottom 20 keywords used for searching. Also shows which keywords have best bets.
  • Search Terms
    Shows top 20, top 10, bottom 10, or bottom 20 search terms used for searching. Also shows which search terms match a defined keyword.
    
• Introducing Microsoft's new server-based business performance management scorecard application. The new application leverages the power of the Microsoft Office System to help organizations build, manage and use scorecards and key performance indicators (KPIs), and perform deep analysis - all within an intuitive, collaborative environment. Business Scorecard Server gives companies a broad view of business opportunities, through which employees can better understand business challenges, effectively shape solutions and quickly execute on their objectives. Decision-making happens across all levels of an organization, and empowering employees with powerful business intelligence (BI) solutions can help them have greater impact.
  
  While Business Scorecard Server provides rich "out of the box" functionality for scorecarding and dashboarding, ISVs have an opportunity to extend these capabilities to either add advanced BI analytics to the product or integrate scorecarding with LOB applications.
  
  Web services and SharePoint technology extensibility are made available for ISVs to take advantage of to build, integrate and customize Business Scorecard Server.
  
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  Download the Business Scorecard Server Beta 1 bits
  Webcast of Tech-Ed Session
  
• The Live Meeting 2005 Web Parts integrate Live Meeting with SharePoint (both Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server) to aggregate information together within a single portal so that teams can interact more effectively.
  
  By integrating with Live Meeting Portal, users can seamlessly view their upcoming Live Meetings or recently made recordings without having to log-in or remember any passwords. Not only do the web parts provide a view into Live Meeting from SharePoint, but they also allow a user to conveniently publish meetings and recording into a shared event calendar, so that team members can interact more effectively by having everything in one place.
  
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