Office and Sharepoint 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine Beta

The download contains two VMs for evaluating and Office and Sharepoint 2010 beta.

 

2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)

 

 

Buy great books at great prices on Sharepoint, Project Management and Project Server only at http://store.faisalmasood.com On that site, select Microsoft from the dropdown on top right Then use keywords Sharepoint 2010 to search.

 

Outlook and Sharepoint - The Two Buddies

Outlook and Sharepoint works hand and hand to offer lots of nice features. Some of the features which might be helpful in business processes are email enabled lists, using Sharepoint from within Outlook and offline access. There are few products on these features as well.

 

Check the following links:

·         Using Sharepoint with your Outlook Client

·         Outlook as a SharePoint client, online and offline

·         Incoming Email in SharePoint v3

·         How to access SharePoint sites through Microsoft Outlook

·         Configure Emailed Enabled Sharepoint Lists with Exchange

 

Products:

·         Colligo Contributor for Sharepoint

·         Scinaptic OnePlaceMail

·         Techtra Mail2Share

 

Build a WSS3 Developer VPC

A nice article on creating your WSS3 VPC. Old article but helps in other scenarios as well.

 

Walkthrough - Build a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development Virtual PC with SQL Server, Active Directory and E-mail

 

Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM

Review the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) to see where Microsoft Sharepoint stands. It is rightly on TOP RIGHT section.

 

Sharepoint WSS Developer VPC Image

You can download the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Developer VPC image. The image contains WSS 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008.

 

 

SharePoint Developer Downloads from MS

There are a lot of good downloadable resources on the Sharepoint (MOSS/WSS) development available from Microsoft. Review the following.

 

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK)

 

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit

 

Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 - Mar 2009 CTP

 

Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects

 

PPTs and Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer Modules

 

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

 

SharePoint Guidance - November 2008

 

Sharepoint Developer Central Site

 

Sharepoint DEsigner 2007 is now Free

Yes, SharePoint Designer 2007 is now free. Download it from the MS site.

Visio Stencils for Sharepoint

I found couple of nice Visio stencils for SharePoint. Some of which are really nice.

 

·         MOSS Architecture Diagrams Visio Server Stencils

·         Visio Template and Stencil for SharePoint

 

Also found this MSDN article on integration of Visio and SharePoint.

 

 

PerformancePoint Server Webcasts

Performance Point Server 2007 Webcasts

 

PerformancePoint Server to PerformancePoint Services

One major news for SharePoint community. Microsoft will discontinue PerformancePoint Server and will make it PerformancePoint Service for SharePoint Server. This will give SharePoint community another edge on other products and would allow customers to use the features out of SharePoint Server.

 

More details here:

 

Microsoft Shutters PerformancePoint Server

 

Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Blog