Ron Rennick

The WP/WPMU author link from the <code>the_author_posts_link()</code> template tag on the blog will link to the author’s buddypress member profile instead of the author’s posts page.
This plugin will only affect blogs where buddypress is activated sitewide. It will function the same in either the mu-plugins folder or in the plugins folder and activated sitewide.

BP Blog Author Link

This plugin changes the blog author links on a buddypress site to link to the author's buddypress member profile.

feedmeastraycat

WordPress removes the Update Services ability (Settings – Writing) when you create a network (aka enables WordPress MU/Multisite). 
Activate this plugin to get it back.
Note: This is only for WordPress setups with a network, aka multiple sites, aka multisites, 
aka WPMU in WordPress 3 and later.
This plugin might work with older WordPress MU sites. I haven’t tested it though. If you do, please 
let me know how it turned out.
<h3>Files</h3>
<ul>
<li>/activate-update-services/activate-update-services.php</li>
<li>/activate-update-services/README.txt</li>
</ul>

Activate Update Services

WordPress removes the Update Services ability when you create a network. Activate this plugin to get it back.

BP Blog Author Link vs Activate Update Services