Sharepoint 2010 Beta is now available for Download

Sharepoint 2010 Beta is now available for download at

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

Sharepoint Conference Highlights

Sharepoint Conference held in October, 2009 in LasVegas, this was for the first time when users were able to see Sharepoint 2010 publically, given below is the link for sharepoint conference highlights...

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/news.aspx#26

Sharepoint 2010 for End Users, Developers and IT Professional

Microsoft has released guides which discusses Sharepoint 2010 features:

a) End User Evalution Guide - http://bit.ly/DM5mH
b) Developer Evaluation Guide - http://bit.ly/21ezZ2
c) IT Pro Evaluation Guide - http://bit.ly/1IENu4

Sharepoint 2010 for End Users

End User Evalution Guide
http://bit.ly/DM5mH

All New Office 2010 Developer Training Course

All New Office 2010 Developer Training Course

http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs/archive/2009/11/09/sharepoint-2010-developer-training-course-available-now-on-channel-9.aspx


http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/



The Office 2010 Workshop is one of the new developer training courses to debut on Channel 9 today. The release of this course consists of 29 videos with presentations and demos on Office 2010 development. That’s around 4.5 hours of content! Shortly after Office 2010 Beta becomes publicly available the training course will be updated with the hands-on-lab and source code for each unit. The training course includes these units:
• Office 2010 Developer Roadmap
• Office UI Customization
• Office Client Workflow
• Security and Deployment
• Business Connectivity Services
• Developing BI Applications
• Open XML
• Office 2010 Services
• InfoPath 2010 and Forms Services

Office 2010 is an evolved developer platform with new services and extensibility. It provides the best productivity experience across PC, phone and browser with platform power to connect to cloud and on-premises services. This course introduces developers to the concepts of Office development and the broad set of tools available for both client and server side development. These include Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, InfoPath 2010, Access 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 to call out a few. With many new features, these tools help developers be more productive by providing greater flexibility in how they approach developing and deploying their solutions – all to deliver real value to information workers and organizations.

Enjoy!

Metro Office 2010 Instructor Led Training – San Jose, CA, Dec. 10-11, 2009
Invite your Metro customers to join us in San Jose, CA for this instructor led training course. Space is limited so be sure to get your partner/customer signed up early! Please contact Bruno Nowak or Donovan Follette for questions about the Productivity Rhythm in the Metro early adopter program.

Check Out the Office 2010 Team Blogs
If you would like to get caught up on the great innovations in Office 2010, here is a collection of links to the team blogs. Excellent reading!
• Office 2010 Engineering
• Word Team Blog
• Excel Team Blog
• InfoPath Team Blog
• Publisher Team Blog
• Access Team Blog
• OneNote
• Visio Team Blog
• Outlook Team Blog
• PowerPoint Team Blog
• Project Team Blog
• Natural Language Team Blog
• Office Global Experience Team Blog
• Open XML
• Office Web Apps Team
• SharePoint Workspace Team Blog

Office Developer Guild (ODG)
For all those that love Office development, get connected on Facebook with the Office Developer Guild. John Durant writes, “To make it easier for us to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas we now have the “Office Developer Guild”—a group of like-minded professional friends on Facebook.”

So join the ODG!