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A quick update about some downloadable books, whitepapers and technical diagrams for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. A must read :)

Downloadable book: Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007
This guide provides prescriptive guidance that can help you and your team build custom enterprise sites by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 — such as company-wide portal sites or Internet presence sites. Custom sites based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 combine coded elements, such as workflows, document converters, and Web Parts, along with content, such as master pages, layout pages, graphics files, and Web pages. Best practices for developing these sites include setting up multiple environments for developing, integrating, piloting, and deploying coded elements and content from one environment to another. Therefore, coordinating the development and deployment of an enterprise site based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a complex activity. This guide describes the ways you can set up the multiple environments used in the development process and the methods for deploying content and code from one environment to another.

Downloadable book: Web Publishing and Planning Guide with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes features you can use to implement the structure, navigation, and appearance of Web sites and to control how your sites are authored, approved, and published. The articles in this guide will help you in planning your Web site's structure, authoring environment, and publishing environment.

Technical diagrams and other supplemental documentation
A large amount of technical diagrams available in Visio format. Models are 34-by-44-inch posters that detail a specific technical area. These models are intended to be used with corresponding articles on TechNet. These models are created using Office Visio 2007. You can modify the Visio files to illustrate how you plan to incorporate Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies in your own environment.

• Logical Architecture Sample Design: Corporate Deployment
• Architecture Design Example: Twynham School (U.K.)
• Architecture Example: Single School, Single Server
• Extranet Topologies for SharePoint Products and Technologies
• Shared Services Providers for Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Inter-Farm Shared Services for Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Geographically
• Global Knowledge Management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Data Protection and Recovery model
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 Availability model
• Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Model: Upgrading Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Page 1 of 2)
• Model: Upgrading Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Page 2 of 2)
• Model: Site Permissions for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Model: SharePoint Products and Technologies Baseline Site Hierarchies

Downloadable book: Records Management Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
This guide covers general records management planning considerations, guidelines for configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise content management features for records management, guidelines for planning server farm topology for records management, and guidelines for organizing the logical components of a records management system based on Office SharePoint Server 2007. The audiences for this guide include records managers, information architects, IT generalists, and program managers who are planning a records management solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server (White paper)
This downloadable white paper explains how administrators can protect and recover data in SharePoint Products and Technologies. This paper describes data recovery from the item level to the farm level.