Developing, Deploying, and Monitoring Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010

New article in MSDN Magazine on Developing, Deploying, and Monitoring Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010 describes how sandboxed solutions in SharePoint 2010 provide a framework for safe and rapid deployment of solutions.
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QOD: Can you audit permission changes?

Question: Can you audit permission changes in a site collection?
Answer: This is possible, but by default security changes are not audited. To enable auditing:

Select Site Actions + Site Settings + Modify All Site Settings at the site collection root site.
Click the Site collection audit settings link.
Select the Editing users [...]

WSS SP3: Post Installation Issues

Post Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack3 installation, you may 
Encounter error messages:
Exception from HRESULT: 0×80040E14. Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.
HTTP 500 – Internal server error

Unable to perform the following operations:
Edit columns on a list
Import a spreadsheet
Add choices to a choice field

To resolve this, run the following command for
Windows [...]

Tip: Page Editor Unavailable

So you can’t edit page? Well chances are that someone has edited the page and not checked in. It’s been checked out and not published.
Navigate to Pages library on your site to to see who has this checked out this page.
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Fix: SQL Server Reporting issues with SharePoint

Situation: You have SQL Server Reporting installed and you have just installed SharePoint. You discover that your SQL Server Reporting stops working.
Piyush Mittal has documented his field experience.
Simple answer:
Using a dedicated application pool can help avoid conflict with existing Web applications.
Refer to this Microsoft article for more info.
If you install SharePoint Services after Reporting [...]