Project Managed all aspects of the upgrade as the Jive SBS Architect for National Instruments.  Maintained strong communication through active discussion and Beta Access Programs, to mitigate risk of software version not being available and stable upon desired release date.  Jive SBS 4.5.0 was released on June 8th, 2010 ... 2 years of customizations, extensions, and plugins merged/migrated/released with the rest of the platform on ni.com/community on June 25th.

Released the QuickTemplates Plugin, Admin Essentials Plugin, and the ICS Export Plugin to the Jive Community in response to this upgrade.  Numerous internal plugins, such as SSO/SEO related capabilities, were created as part of this release as well.

Update:  Shortly after this upgrade, lead the upgrade of our internal Jive SBS instance from 4.0.2 to 4.5.2.