Scott Samuels on November 19th, 2009

Microsoft has now opened up the SharePoint/FAST 2010 beta trial to anyone with a Windows Live login. If you don’t have one then you can sign up for one for free. Head to:

SharePoint 2010 beta (Enterprise) or SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites Beta Enterprise – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx
FAST 2010 beta – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/evalcenter/ee424282.aspx
SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (32-bit) – [...]

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Scott Samuels on November 17th, 2009

The SharePoint 2010 beta and Office 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download  – if are a lucky and have an MSDN or TechNet Subscription…
If you do have a subscription, you can access it here:

TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/default.aspx
MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/aa570309.aspx

Get downloading!
UPDATE: 18 November 2009
Just a quick update based on the word on the street about the MSDN [...]

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Scott Samuels on November 1st, 2009

Recently I have been working creating a series of Site Definitions for one of my employer’s client’s. The tool of choice (the best of a bad bunch?) for this is the SharePoint Solution Generator 2008, bundled with the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The tool comes fitted with a few ‘gotchas’ [...]

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