Several Ways to Create Site Collections

How to Create Each Site Collection in a Separate DB
http://microsoftfeed.com/2011/how-to-create-each-site-collection-in-separate-database-in-sharepoint-2010/

Create Site Collection using custom template
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=218

Student Links 10174 Config and Admin for SharePoint 2010

Powershell
http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/tutorial-windows-powershell-console/
User Profile Sync
Thanks Ravnell http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx

Sandbox ?

Good article on Sandbox here
http://allthingssharepoint.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/to-sandbox-or-not-to-sandbox/

SharePoint and Lotus Notes

 Lotus Notes Connector  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff463593.aspx

Step by step guide http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2010/02/16/crawl-lotus-domino-with-lotus-notes-connector-in-sharepoint-server-2010.aspx

Migration Help http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-IE/sharepoint2010general/thread/dd1a591d-4307-4a36-a276-864e52437272

Exchange Public Folders and SharePoint

Microsoft is "de-emphasizing" Public Folders, more on this here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2006/02/20/419994.aspx

SharePoint Joel does a great job continuing the discussion:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joelo/archive/2006/09/20/what-about-public-folders-vs-email-enabled-lists-in-wss-v3.aspx

Not an easy task more on that here
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/1a9d8009-f38f-40d6-88f3-de812149c89a/

So you might need a tool like this one from avepoint to assist
http://www.avepoint.com/exchange-public-folder-to-sharepoint-migration-docave/

MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa579360.aspx

New Technet SharePoint 2010 SP1 articles

Have you checked out this site yet?  Great resource on Updates
 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847

SP1
Great FAQ
http://www.harbar.net/archive/2011/06/30/327.aspx
Offical Page
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045

Good reading - notice DB capacity has changed
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262043.aspx

More info from SharePoint Team including SP1
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/default.aspx

Site Recycle Bin (step by step)
http://www.tcscblog.com/2011/06/28/site-recycle-bin-in-sharepoint-2010/

Step by Step Storage Metrics (Bill Baer)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2011/06/28/service-pack-1-storage-metrics-storman-aspx.aspx

Great Links

Sharepoint General

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pstubbs/archive/2011/06/22/understanding-sharepoint-2010-claims-based-security.aspx

http://sharepointpodshow.com/archive/2011/06/24/sharepoint-mcm-top-3-mistakes-and-user-profile-sync-discussion.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2011/05/25/coordinating-urls-with-aam-and-dns.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/

http://get-spscripts.com/2010/11/convert-word-documents-to-pdf-in.html

http://www.sharepoint4developers.net/en-nz/post/sharepoint-2010-content-type-hub.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alimaz/archive/2011/06/27/configuring-sharepoint-content-organizer-to-route-documents-to-a-separate-site-collection.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/05/14/troubleshooting-kerberos-authentication-problems-name-resolution-issues.aspx

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=401

http://www.gimmalsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2011/03/06/taxonomy-the-challenge-of-starting-from-scratch.aspx

http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=676af157%2D7d96%2D4e15%2Da987%2D54b8a3e4d948&ID=119

http://blogs.sharepoint911.com/blogs/jennifer/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=126e87c2%2D6987%2D4652%2Da0af%2D425b31d827bd&ID=70&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs%2Esharepoint911%2Ecom%2Fblogs%2Fjennifer%2FSiteAssets%2FOffice365%2Easpx&Web=2d9e5740%2D0f11%2D4705%2Db67c%2D010879b6e2a9

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepointcomic/archive/2009/01/14/managing-and-administering-site-quotas-in-sharepoint.aspx

Development

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg293116.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2010/12/26/develop-custom-workflow-activity-for-sharepoint-2010-workflow.aspx

http://www.sharepointusecases.com/index.php/2010/03/configure-item-level-permissions-for-document-libraries-part-2/

http://ikarstein.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/problem-and-workaround-organization-browser-silverlight-web-part-is-empty-on-other-site-than-mysite/

http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2011/06.aspx

http://get-spscripts.com/2010/09/check-in-and-approve-all-publishing.html

http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/sharepoint-2010-approvereject-content.html

PowerShell

http://www.sharepointer.com.br/sharepoint-administration/sharepoint-powershell/managing-sharepoint-2010-content-database-with-powershell-part-1/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/22/use-powershell-to-manage-lists-views-and-items-in-sharepoint.aspx

http://sharepointnomad.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/create-and-delete-sharepoint-list-views-with-powershell/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/22/use-powershell-to-manage-lists-views-and-items-in-sharepoint.aspx

http://www.dunxd.com/2009/02/06/sharepoint-global-site-collection-administrator-editor-using-powershell/

http://www.sharepointroundtable.com/blogs/rdennis/archive/2011/03/22/using-powershell-to-make-an-entire-web-application-read-only.aspx

http://blogs.flexnetconsult.co.uk/colinbyrne/2008/02/26/PowerShellSharePointThreeWaysToDeleteAListItemIDCAMLStringMatching.aspx

http://letitknow.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/100/

http://get-spscripts.com/2011/03/useful-powershell-for-sharepoint-links.html

http://www.rlmueller.net/PowerShell/PSLimitedLastLogon.txt

http://www.rlmueller.net/PowerShell/PSLastLogon.txt

http://secretsofsharepoint.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2010/09/21/updating-items-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell.aspx

http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2010/08/19/adding-list-items-using-powershell-sharepoint-2010/

http://letitknow.wordpress.com/tag/moderationinformation/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5431977/sharepoint-2010-add-list-item-with-workflow-approval-status-and-powershell

http://www.dunxd.com/2009/02/06/sharepoint-global-site-collection-administrator-editor-using-powershell/

http://get-spscripts.com/2010/09/create-and-manage-sharepoint-site.html

Records Management

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/EUSP2010/2010/07/14/sharepoint-2010-records-management-overview/

Monitoring

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2010/09/14/http-request-throttling-in-sharepoint-2010-part-2.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2010/09/13/http-request-throttling-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2010/04/22/http-request-monitoring-and-throttling.aspx