“...never to argue with fools because they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

From Advice Line

Windows SharePoint Services Software Development Kit (SDK)

This update of the SDK includes new documentation for the Web Part Page Services Component (WPSC), which is a client-side somponent that adds dynamic capabilities to your Web Part Page by providing Web Part discovery, notification, and state management services used by Web Parts and Windows SharePoint Services RPC methods.

Disabling Shutdown Reasoning on Windows Server 2003

This article from NetAdminTools.com details the procedure to get rid of that annoying dialog on Windows 2003 when shutting down.

Microsoft released an update to the XML that provides the Intellisense in Visual Studio.

Windows SharePoint Services: IntelliSense XML File

Joel Spolsky mentioned that he is using the full-text search feature of SQL Server and that it required a manual job to re-index the database.

In fact, SQL Server 2000 will monitor a table for changes to a table that is included in a full-text index. The sp_fulltext_table procedure has parameters to 'Start_change_tracking' and 'Start_background_updateindex'.

As I wrote in Joel's discussion board, I have a script I could share that enumerates all indexes on a server and sets the change tracking for all tables in the index.

I didn't plan on being political on this blog, but this quote from Wonkette just cracked me up.

We're Just Glad They're Not Using 9/11 for Political Purposes
Wonkette (http://www.wonkette.com) Sep. 8, 2004

A lot of places are noting the release of a service pack for WSS, but the Admin Guide has been updated as well.

Windows SharePoint Services Administrator's Guide