Creating Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010 That Target Specific Web Applications (Wrox)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh528518

Creating Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010 that Target Specific Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh528519.aspx

Content Database Connection Timeout

default is 15 seconds

To set the timeout value to a connection to 45 seconds, use the following syntax:

stsadm -o setproperty -pn database-connection-timeout -pv 45

To view the current setting of the database-connection-timeout property, use the following syntax:

stsadm -o getproperty -pn database-connection-timeout

Using Solutions in SharePoint Foundation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee534972

Deploy Solutions with PowerShell

http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/index.php/2011/04/deploying-sharepoint-2010-solution-package-using-powershell-revisited/

Rational Guide to implementing User profile Synchronization

http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx

Deploy Updates to SharePoint

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467

Deploy Visual Studio Reports Prompts for Credentials

http://ybbest.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/how-to-fix-“not-able-to-deploy-report-to-sharepoint-2010-in-integrated-mode”/

Activating a Feature

stsadm.exe -o activatefeature -name FEATURE_NAME -url http://WEB_APPLICATION -force

Timer Job that runs PowerShell scripts

http://sppowershelltimerjob.codeplex.com/

Analyze SharePoint Features

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/WssAnalyzeFeatures

Plan for Project Server Deployment

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff603997.aspx

Deploy Project Server to SharePoint 2010

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197479.aspx

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770300.aspx

This is a Microsoft Patterns & Practices publication with great info on building SharePoint customizations

Default Custom Action Locations and IDs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802730%28office.14%29.aspx