Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Developer Evaluation VPC

For those needing to learn sharepoint but do not have the time or desire to install all the pieces.
Microsoft has provided an alternative. Thanks to JK for letting us know about this resource.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Developer Evaluation VPC Image available at this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1beeac6f-2ea1-4769-9948-74a74bd604fa&DisplayLang=en

This VPC is a set of virtual pc imgs from microsoft. It is a time expiring (sometime in fall of next year) img, but it does have the following all PRE-INSTALLED:- sharepoint, visual studio 2k8, sql server & sql studio, IIS properly configured

If you have any tips, tricks, resource you would like to share with the guild please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them.

Session state cannot be used in ASP.NET with Windows SharePoint Services

It appears that if Windows SharePoint Services is installed on the web server then none of your other applications can use session state.

When you have Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) installed on your
computer and when you browse the page that is set with session variables in the
Microsoft ASP.NET Web application, you may receive the following error message:

Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true,
either in a configuration file or in the Page directive

The article below explains the situation more thoroughly.

Session state cannot be used in ASP.NET with Windows SharePoint Services
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837376

If you come across any tips, tricks, resources or gotchas that may help others in dealing with SharePoint issues please email them to susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them here.