The SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine aka 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is now available for everyone!  This is one day after Microsoft released the SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 virtual machine for SDPS Partners Only   Microsoft has been kind to release a two Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Of ...[Read More]

The SharePoint 2010 VHD is now available for Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) partners.  The SharePoint 2010 VHD is a virtual machine that contains SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 that you can start using today.  Go to your SDPS partner portal for further details!   Here’s hoping the SharePoint Community at large will have acc ...[Read More]

UPDATE: Check out Download SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine Many bloggers are posting their SharePoint 2010 Beta installation experiences, and I have collected all the posts that I could find for my reference as I setup my SharePoint 2010 development rig:  Jie Li’s SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites Download Links and Inst ...[Read More]

Kurt DelBene just made it official today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that Microsoft is unveiling the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010 – source MS Press Pass.  The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog has also made it official ...[Read More]

Quick post:  Windows 7 has been officially been released today, and it brings lots of features.    If weren't able to attend the SharePoint Conference 2009 or keep up with twitter, then you might have missed that SharePoint 2010 can be installed on Windows 7.  This approach is obviously recommended for Developers and for production.   Alpesh ...[Read More]

Excited about SharePoint 2010?  I definitely am; that's why I have registered for the SharePoint Conference 2009. This will be THE conference to attend as this is the first time Microsoft will publicly be sharing information of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer.  As a registered member, I received a sneak peak into some of sessions that will be of ...[Read More]

With the recent sneak peak of SharePoint 2010, we are truly seeing a change in how Microsoft is focusing on the SharePoint platform.  As we continue to get additional details we'll definitely be able to guage if Microsoft is listening to their customers or not. :)   If you are new to SharePoint Buzz, I have been asking all my twitter followers, ...[Read More]

Waking up this Monday morning, there is tons of information on SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview from Microsoft.  More then its' typical for pre-beta.  With the initial information that is coming out of the technical preview of SharePoint 2010, I have a strong belief that this version of SharePoint, will be its finest.  Sure there are huge improve ...[Read More]

Ever since customers have started implementing SharePoint 2007, they have had requests they wish are a part of upcoming SharePoint 2010 [out of box] features.  I asked What's on your SharePoint 2010 wishlist and our 2500+ new followers responded with the following: sharepointguide: 140 characters is nowhere near enough to answer that q :-) need ...[Read More]

If you haven't read, the Microsoft SharePoint Team officially blogged / announced that the Official Name of Microsoft SharePoint “14” [Press Pass]is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010.   Why not Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010?   It's not that MOSS was a bad term but because customers were getting confused.    Let's hear it straigh ...[Read More]