DevConnections SharePoint Conference Las Vegas
The Syrinx SharePoint team is currently in Las Vegas for the Fall DevConnections Conference.
We had a great full-day session yesterday with Ben Curry from MindSharp. He gave a solid overview about installation and deployment. It was definitely worth it for those people who have not yet set up a farm and needed some best practices to keep in mind and get them going.
A couple of key points to take away from this session was that MOSS will be 64 bit only in the next release, and that there are some issues with the OWSTimer service that can be mitigated by restarting the service nightly.
Mindsharp has also published some extensions to the stsadm.exe command line utility for SharePoint. I'm not sure where they are located, but a good place to start would be: http://mindsharpblogs.com/