sphillips: Configuring Profile Import in SharePoint 2010 – A Way Around the Minefields – http://bit.ly/crjv8v
At the request of Mr Roger Tinsley (http://twitter.com/rogertinsley) have pulled together a short list of decent SharePoint 2010 Developer books…
Not strictly a development book, but still good background reading is: Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration
All good reads. All expect a reasonably high degree of .NET, ASP.NET development experience and SharePoint usage.
All books also available for Kindle
To get started you can download Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 for FREE!
Took a while to get up and running with this. Prepped Virtual Machines for Domain Controller, Exchange 2010, and then had some trouble getting SQL Patched Correctly before being able to install SharePoint 2010 Public Beta, but got there in the end!
Just need to get the rest of the toys installed now… SharePoint Designer 2010, Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010 etc etc
I love this promo from Bamboo Solutions…
This is really very, very special…
http://www.rockcookiebottom.com/post/162043777/song-a-day-225-bamboo-solutions-bamboo
Soooo looking forward to this!
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx
Excellent article!
Part 1
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1659
Part 2
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1665
Part 3
OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computer operating systems including Windows, Linux and Apple OS X. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. It can also open and save files in Microsoft Office format too although it’s not the default.
If you are a home user and you’re wondering where to get £300 odd smackers for a copy of Microsoft Office, you might want to swing by the OpenOffice website and download your freebie.
If you are a business user with limited legacy Microsoft Office integration that would be expensive to replace, then this is a really good option for you too. Do the aggregate maths on license costs on this versus Microsoft Office.
I use Microsoft Office 2007 in work and at home on my Windows machines, I run Microsoft Office 2004 on my Mac, but am also running OpenOffice on my OpenSuse Linux boxes. Have been messing with OpenOffice since it’s first release. It’s really good alternative to Microsoft Office on a standalone level.
Where this falls down a bit is whenever it comes to integration into document management systems. Obviously Microsoft Office glues together with SharePoint like… well like glue… but OpenOffice doesn’t really have a dedicated server counterpart… not so great for business from that perspective…
Anyway… lots of nice new features in this version…
Today’s big news is Microsoft’s announcement that they are planning to provide online, hosted, subscription-based versions of Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint to organisations of all sizes. This is a big big step toward expanding their software plus services strategy. The new services are scheduled to be generally available to businesses of all sizes in the second half of the year.
Today, the sold-out first day of the SharePoint 2007 conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced these new hosted subscription-based services, and also the release of the Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint and the general release of Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.
SharePoint is just getting bigger and bigger. 3/4 of Fortune-100 organisations have now adopted SharePoint. It is Microsoft biggest, fastest selling server product today! It is the new de facto standard for enterprise collaboration, enterprise portal, enterprise search, enterprise content management, and enterprise social networking – all out-of-the-box!
Based on the proven, business-class software available in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the new online services announced today enable businesses to access e-mail, calendaring, contacts, shared workspaces, and web-conferencing and video-conferencing over the Web. The new services are managed through a single Web-based interface, designed to meet the needs of IT professionals. Through this security-enhanced interface, IT professionals can monitor the performance of the services, add and configure users, submit and track support requests, and manage users and licenses.
Bill Gates said. “With Microsoft Online Services, businesses can deploy software as a subscription service, from servers they manage on-site, or a combination of the two, depending on their specific needs. In the future, customers and partners should expect to see this kind of choice and flexibility for all of Microsoft’s software and server products.”
The keynote of the conference can be seen here:
Video is well worth a watch, especially the second half which shows where the product is going to next!
It looks like SharePoint is just getting bigger and bigger… Microsoft have doubled their technical and implementation consultancy support for SharePoint and they intend to double it again within the next 6 months to try to keep up with the increase in customer demand….
Andrew Poots