Select Site Columns Quickly

A Tip For SharePoint Developers: XSLT Is Your Friend
In this blog entry it is explained how you can leverage XSLT to transform the fieldref.xml file to find the site columns quickly. The XSLT filters the field name and the field-ref xml snippet so that one copy – paste in the features xml file.

First Step Towards Migration of Sharepoint 2003 to 2007

Install and run the pre-upgrade scan tool (Link)

Download and install the pre-upgrade scan tool from the Microsoft Download center (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=92383). You must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer to run this tool.
On the command line, change to the folder that contains the two files, and then run the following command [...]