TechNET: Best practices for search in SharePoint Server 2010

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850696.aspx

TechNET: Database types and descriptions (SharePoint Server 2010)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678868.aspx

The Timer Recycle Job (job-timer-recycle)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2012/01/10/the-timer-recycle-job-job-timer-recycle.aspx

Timer Job Changes and Additions SP2010

http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Timer-job-changes-and-additions-in-SharePoint-2010.aspx

How to: Create a Web Application-Scoped Timer Job

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798313.aspx

Search 2010 Architecture and Scale - Part 1 Crawl

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/04/16/search-2010-architecture-and-scale-part-1-crawl.aspx

TechNET: Full and Incremental Crawls

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/230.full-and-incremental-crawls-in-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-search-en-us.aspx

No user profile service application available to service request

http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/02/22/no-user-profile-application-available-mystery-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

My Sites Technical Info

http://blogbaris.blogspot.com/2011/03/sharepoint-2010-mysite-in-detail.html

My Sites In-Depth Series

http://weshackett.com/2011/01/sp2010-mysites-part-one-overview/

Understanding Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg454789.aspx

TechNET: Database Attach Upgrade Videos

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh315922.aspx

TechNET: Plan for My Sites

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262500.aspx

SharePoint 2010 build level and version numbers

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepointjoe/archive/2011/02/01/sp2010-sharepoint-2010-build-level-and-version-numbers.aspx

Upgrade SP2007 to SP2010

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3837

TechNET: STSADM Database Operations

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262486(office.12).aspx

TechNET: Setup My Sites

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624362.aspx

Overview of My SharePoint Sites and how the data is populated

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jorman/archive/2009/07/30/my-sharepoint-sites-memberships-general-overview-on-how-this-functionality-works.aspx

TechNET: Attach databases and upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263299.aspx

Note that the Mount-SPContentDatabase PowerShell cmdlet has an option parameter UpdateUserExperience that you use to indicate that you want to upgrade to the SharePoint 2010 user interface.  

A Complete Guide to Writing Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/a-complete-guide-to-writing-timer-jobs-in-sharepoint-2010/

SharePoint 2010: Workflow fails to resume

You can experience workflow errors when the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer service is running on a server and the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application is NOT running on that same server; see this link for options to fix it:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2674684

Windows Server Evaluation - How to Rearm 10 Day Activation Grace Period

How to manually rearm the 10 day activation grace period
When the initial 10-day activation period nears its end, you can run the Slmgr.vbs script to reset it back to 10 days. To do this, follow these steps: 

·  1. Click Start, and then click Command Prompt.

·  2. Type slmgr.vbs -dli, and then press ENTER to check the current status of your activation period.

·  3. To reset the activation period, type slmgr.vbs –rearm, and then press ENTER.

·  4. Restart the computer.

Photos in People Search Results and My Sites are messed up after migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

I found the answer on how to fix here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spsocial/archive/2011/01/07/photo-management-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

SharePoint 2010 wants a small, medium and large thumbnail image.  When you upgrade from SharePoint 2007, the 3 thumbnails do not exist.  You can run the PowerShell cmdlet Update-SPProfilePhotoStore which will iterate over the profiles, download the existing profile picture, and create the 3 appropriately sized thumbnails.