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SharePoint Designer 2010 BETA is out!
SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers alike can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Advanced users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to Line-Of-Business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and human workflows, leveraging the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy to use environment. In addition, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a quick start on SharePoint development projects.
 
Microsoft is providing both versions:

Enjoy!

Microsoft SharePoint - "An Enterprise Project"
Featured Products/Topics:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Business Process Management
 
Recommended Audiences:
Technology Executives, IT Managers, IT Professionals, Business Executives, Managers, Finance Directors, Human Resources Managers, Customer Management, Teachers, School Administrators, Finance Professionals, Business/Reporting Analysts, Project Managers, Operations Managers, Office Managers, Sales Professionals, Doctors, Business Managers, Customer Service Managers, Solution Architects, Engagement Managers, Product Specialists, Product Managers, Business Owner, Business Professionals, Software Developers, Production Manager, Business Decision Maker, Technical Decision Makers, Retail Managers, Government Contractors, Developers
 
Join Greg Kiefer and Doug Robbins as they discuss the necessity for Project Managers (PMs) and organizations to understand the impact of implementing a feature-rich technology such as SharePoint throughout their organizations. SharePoint implementations present challenges for PMs due to the need to address the complex organizational change elements, as well as the technical requirements. SharePoint provides organizations with hundreds of features out of the box from collaboration to enterprise content management, from document management to business intelligence.
 
Greg and Doug will:
• Provide attendees with a set of best practices to increase the probability of success.
• Offer recommendations on how to ensure the implementation is not only a technical success, but also an organizational victory.
• Offer entertainment
• Discuss the key issues associated with SharePoint implementations.
 
Discussion topics will include:
• Early growing pains and lessons learned
• New Approach
• Business Opportunity
• What can SharePoint do for you?
• SharePoint Life Cycle
• Team Composition
• Governance
• Building the Roadmap
 
DATE: Wednesday, November 18th of 2009
TIME: 1pm - 3pm
LOCATION: Microsoft Corporation Office 300 Capitol Mall, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA 95814
 
 
 
 
Meeting ID: 8BH4H7
Attendee entry code: 2dWQCkj(s
 
Conference Call:
Dial-in Number: (218) 862-1000
Participant Access Code: 986770#

 

 


SharePoint 2010 New Features
Since Microsoft announced SharePoint 2010, the community has been speculating what are the new features that might offer. I put together some of the new features of SharePoint 2010 that I found at the Conference 2009 in Vegas.
 

·          New User Interface including Ribbon

·          Web Edit

·          Silverlight WebPart

·          Rich Theming

·          Multiple Browser Support

·          Visio Services

·          Business Connectivity Services

·          SharePoint Workspace

·          Rich Media Support

·          Tagging any type of content/site

·          Streamlined Central Administration

·          SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer

·          Usage Reporting and Logging

·          Large List Resource Throttling

·          Unattached Content Database Recovery

·          Visual Upgrade

·          Language Integrated (LINQ) for SharePoint

·          Developer Dashboard

·          Business Connectivity Services

·          Client Object Model (OM)

 
 
100 FREE SharePoint Design Packages

Hello guys, I’m here to announce that SharePointDesignCenter.com is giving away FREE Design Packages for the first 100 people that register at the website, sponsored by Kiefer Consulting, Inc.

When you are filling the registration form you can choose a custom theme or master page to brand the look and feel of your SharePoint site.

So don’t miss this opportunity to have a $299 package value for FREE sponsored by Kiefer Consulting, Inc.

Link to www.sharepointdesigncenter.com

Thanks for your support!

WSS & MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install
It’s nice when things happen as expected.

Five No Brainer Reasons to Install SP2 (When you are ready!!!)

1. Performance Reliability/Stability Fixes

2. Browser support for IE 8 and improvements in tier 2 browsers (Firefox)

3. Reliability improvements in Indexing and Index Corpus

4. Security Improvements

5. New STSADM Commands including some to fix corruption and relationships (orphaning)

BONUS! Pre Upgrade Checker! - 960577 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960577/ ) List of all Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Server Pre-Upgrade Checker knowledge base articles.  This WILL Be required for the next version.  I use to LOVE Prescan with the previous version, you can guess this is going to be very HOT on my list and will add value even waaaay before you’re ready to upgrade to fix consistency issues and identify areas that will be challenges to upgrade.  (AWESOME INSIGHT!)

 

WOW there’s a TON of SP2 information.  Soooo much!!!  You can find a choose your own adventure in reading these docs.  I’ve pulled out what I think are the most relevant, but you’ll likely find many I didn’t find in my initial pass.

READ IT ALL and Test Test Test!!!

By the way, I’m sure the SharePoint Team blog will have some similar information to this blog.  Be sure to visit http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint some time later today.

 

Information on Service Pack 2 (Most of this information is in the KBs, but just want to lay this out so it’s easy to understand.

Start Here:

NOTE: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is required for 2007 Microsoft Office servers SP2.

968173 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968173/ ) Known issues that you may experience when you install the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2

968170 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170/ ) List of all 2007 Office system Service Pack 2 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 packages

970359 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970359/ ) Technical details about the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (S)

970358 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970358/ ) Technical details about the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (S)

945013 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945013/ ) How to deploy the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and Office Server Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1

968170 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170) Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP2

What is fixed! Thanks PFE’s for these Lists!

Download the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package.

Download the 2007 Office servers Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package.

WSS Specific Download Locations

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x86)

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B 

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x64)

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)

  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=085E5AC8-58F6-4CF9-8012-33B95EE36C0F

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2C2B6CAF-B46D-45EB-AC4D-DEAAA48C3A2C

    MOSS Specific download locations are here:

    2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x86)

  • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

  • 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x64)

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

  • 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01C6A3E8-E110-4956-903A-AD16284BF223 

  • 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66C5026F-9F47-4642-8378-2526918009FA

    Office Suite (Client) and it’s language packs:

    968170 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170/) Description of 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 SP2

    List of Fixes

    Download the 2007 Office Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package now.

    Download

  • 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5)

  • Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E1203DB2-1CC9-4809-9B6E-3F232CB8899F

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