Thursday, October 29, 2009

WSS and MOSS October CU Released

The October cumulative update for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday here are the KB article links for these fixes:

The fixes can be downloaded using the following links:

Monday, October 19, 2009

SharePoint 2010 – And the Downloadable Content keeps coming!!!

The content keeps trickling in. Microsoft has been releasing posters all day, (http://ctrulove.blogspot.com/2009/10/sharepoint-2010-posters-for-everyone.html) but wait, there’s more!

More POSTERS!!!!

SharePoint 2010- SharePoint Developer Platform Wall Poster - The SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform wall poster (PDF format) shows a view of the SharePoint 2010 developer tools, community ecosystem, execution environment, SharePoint Server 2010 workloads, and target application types. The poster is intended to be printed at 24 inches x 36 inches (61 centimeters x 91 centimeters).

SharePoint 2010- Developer Platform White Paper - This white paper provides an overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform for ASP.NET developers.

Enterprise Search Planning for SharePoint Server 2010 - This model describes primary architecture design decisions for search environments.

Design Search for SharePoint Server 2010 - This model describes the steps to determine a basic design for a SharePoint Server 2010 search architecture.

SharePoint Server 2010 Search Architecture - This model describes the physical and logical architecture components of the search system.

 

Learning and Evaluation Stuff Too!!!

SharePoint 2010- Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010- Hands on Labs in C# and Visual Basic - Use these 10 hands-on lab manuals for SharePoint 2010 to get started learning SharePoint 2010 development.

SharePoint 2010- Developer and IT Professional Learning Plan - This document provides information to help developers and IT professionals learn Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010- Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs - The SharePoint 2010 developer evaluation guide describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers.

SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide - Introduction and overview of SharePoint Server 2010 for IT pros.

I am sure there is more to come. Enjoy!

SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell

Great reference posted by Dmitry Sotnikov. 467 cmdlets!!!

http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010-cmdlet-reference/

SharePoint 2010 Posters for Everyone!

Microsoft has apparently decided that posters are the way to go. In tandem with the start of the SharePoint Conference Keynote starting a deluge of SharePoint 2010 posters were released to http://download.microsoft.com. Below you can find them all for your viewing pleasure:

Services in SharePoint Products 2010 - Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.

Hosting Environments for SharePoint 2010 Products - Summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures.

Business Connectivity Services poster - Microsoft Business Connectivity Services enable users to interact with external data by using SharePoint lists and Microsoft Office 2010.

Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010 - Describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies, including planning which servers to start services on.

Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products - Illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services.

SharePoint Enterprise Search - Compares and contrasts search technologies in SharePoint 2010 Products

Upgrade planning poster - Describes requirements and considerations for planning to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010

Upgrade approaches poster - This model describes the three basic approaches to upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010: in-place, database attach, or a hybrid of the two.

Upgrade testing poster - To help ensure a smooth transition to SharePoint Server 2010, perform a trial upgrade to find issues likely to surface during the actual process.

Upgrading services poster - You need to give special consideration to the issues involved when you upgrade services from the previous version of SharePoint Server

Getting started with BI in SharePoint Server 2010 - Discusses the business intelligence tools available in SharePoint Server 2010

Enjoy!

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Posters Now Available!

Just hours before the SharePoint Conference in Vegas, new content is already arriving out on http://download.microsoft.com. You can now get 4 posters that provide a lot of insight into the 2007 to 2010 upgrade process. And here they are:

Upgrade approaches poster - This model describes the three basic approaches to upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010: in-place, database attach, or a hybrid of the two.

Upgrading services poster - You need to give special consideration to the issues involved when you upgrade services from the previous version of SharePoint Server.

Upgrade planning poster - Describes requirements and considerations for planning to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010.

Upgrade testing poster - To help ensure a smooth transition to SharePoint Server 2010, perform a trial upgrade to find issues likely to surface during the actual process.

Enjoy!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

SharePoint August CU re-released

You may have read that there was an issue with the previously released version of the WSS August CU. Well, Microsoft has now released a new version of the update that appears to not have the same problem.

You can find all the information here: http://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2009/10/01/new-build-available-for-august-cu.aspx