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SharePoint in Pictures is a new blog (from the guys at Microsoft) that will only post “diagrams that visualize SharePoint as a development platform”.

I really like architectural diagrams like these. It help me bring together the little pieces and see the big picture.
Also it’s great for anyone who is regularly lecturing, and needs pretty slides.

So check it out at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointpictures/

IIS SEO Toolkit is an add-on to IIS that can analyze your site, and provide some very helpful reports and insights about it’s structure. It’s goal is to help you optimize for search engine’s, but I also has some very nice features that can help in other areas.

One of them is discovering broken links. Once you setup the tool, it crawls through your site, and gives a report of broken links. You can also create custom queries and export data into other reports.

Here’s how to get started:

First get the latest version of IIS SEO Toolkit.
http://www.iis.net/download/seotoolkit

Now open IIS Management. SEO Toolkit is integrated in the console.

To get a broken links report: (Click the pictures to enlarge them)

1. Pick the root server, and open SEO Toolkit.
 
(Don’t pick a web site yet, just pick the server node)

2. Click “Create a new analysis”

3. Give your template a name, enter the start address of the site you want to crawl, and open the Advanced Settings section.

If it’s not a public site, and requires authentication, Click the Set button under Authentication section.

4. Choose Windows from the drop down, and mark the Current User checkbox, or ender different credentials.

5. Click OK unlit the report is created. Now it will run for the first time. It should take some time (about the same as a SharePoint search full crawl).

6. When it’s done crawling, open the report
 

7. Under Content, There’s a broken links report.

8. You can further investigate a link.
 

That’s it.

It’s worth mentioning that you can install this on win 7 as well as server, and that it can be ran from a remote computer, so you don’t have to touch the SharePoint server itself.