An included feature with Office 2010, the Upload Centre claims to assist with managing the uploading of Office documents to SharePoint.  As its a 2010 version product this ONLY applies to SharePoint 2010.

I've experienced issues with a number of users connecting to MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 where they have not been able to upload documents.

Unfortunately in this organisation a rollout/upgrade to SP2010 is not far away so removing the Upload Centre using the hacks found on the link below are not applicable.  If however SP2010 is not in your roadmap certainly give the link below a try.  Note I've not tried these settings at all but it looks like a pretty good starting point.

http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01061_Microsoft_Upload_Center_-_what_is_it-_why_do_I_want_it_and_what_if_I_don-t-.htm

Add both of the following meta tags to the head section.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> 

<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> 

I can never remember the exact steps so I've pasted the URL here...

 http://blogs.technet.com/b/chenley/archive/2011/03/05/how-to-disable-the-shutdown-tracker-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

 Note: I'd only suggest doing this in a developer environment.  The shutdown tracker has the potential to track important information (if used correctly) in a production or test environment.

Branding pages in the /_layouts path

http://sharepointsherpa.com/2008/05/01/sharepoint-2007-dynamic-style-sheets-css-in-application-pages/

Changing your password in a networked environment is pretty mcuh common place as it helps to maintain security within your workplace.  Its also quite common that service accounts also have expirng passwords although usually yearly instead of every month like your user account.

There are some pretty specific steps required to ensure that your SharePoint environment keeps running and I''ll add links to the resources that I've used below.

One thing that I did forget was on an external SharePoint environment.  We forgot to update the credentials to allow the external environment search the internal AD.

The company I work for recently migrated a SharePoint farm from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2.  Big jump!!  To make matters worse we also migrated the farm to least privilege!!

of course all sorts of things stopped working and needed attention.  One was the ability to upload large files.  There are several posts out there that point to various different steps and I'm not going to try and re type any of them. Instead here are the links toteh KB articles and the two posts that got us over the line and users happy.

Although the articles mention Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 they seem to also apply to Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5.

KB Article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925083

SharePoint Comic blog posts that worked for us.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepointcomic/archive/2010/02/14/sharepoint-large-file-upload-configuration.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepointcomic/archive/2010/02/14/uploading-large-files-to-sharepoint-on-windows-server-2008-and-iis7.aspx

A key point in the second blog post is to ensure that you set the maxAllowedContentLength to a little bit higher than what you set in SharePoint's Central Admin so that users get the correct error message if the upload limit is exceeded.

If you find that the webparts normally found int eh Miscellaneous section are missing try the following. 

1. Someone with administrative rights to the Site Collection Administration (Top Level Site) needs to go to the Site Settings (for the SC), and under Galleries click "Web Parts".
2. This will take you to the Web Part Gallery.
3. From there, click the "New" button on the Action Bar.
4. Select the check box for "Overwrite..."  and then select the Web Parts you want. (If you want all available, check the box next to "Web Part Type". Then click the button "Populate Gallery".

I don't need to do this very often and obviously am never going to remember every css element and attribute so I always end up having to look this up.  If you have to as well then this might help you too.

http://www.plexusweb.com/staff/colin/blog/post/95/Need-a-background-image-on-a-table-row

 I only needed to place one image behind some content hence only one TD tag was involved.  I still needed to cater for centering as the overall content was wider than the image.

<TD style="BACKGROUND: url(relative/path/to_image.jpg) no-repeat 50% 0px;">

I also set the table cell to be a particular height so that all of the background image was visible.  Not sure how well this would look in older browsers e.g  IE6 but I don't really care cos you should have already migrated up by now.

Having not had the need to use virtual PC images for some time I'd forgotten what the keybinding was to simulate Ctrl + Alt + Del in a virtual PC environment.

Sure we know that Ctrl + Alt+ End in an RDP environment works but its often different in a Virtual PC enviroment.

Try Right Alt + Del.

If you're like me you have set the VM to open in full screen mode meaning you won't have the VM menu.  Alt+Enter toggles in and out of full screen and restores the VM menu.