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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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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As of today, more information about SharePoint 2010 is available at MS Technet. Big thanks goes out to Boris Kepy for the heads-up. Be patient with the SharePoint 2010 site as it is getting a lot of hits and is responding quite slow:
SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center & Videos
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/videos.aspx
PRE-REGISTER for SharePoint 2010 [...]
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Services Applications are a new model in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Known as a Shared Service Provider (SSP) in MOSS 2007, a Service Application exposes functionality that has been configured for providing extended capabilities across site collections and Web applications or potentially across multiple SharePoint farms.
Key points on Service Applications
A service application can be implemented [...]
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After a long week in the Gold Coast (it’s a hard life!) another Tech.Ed conference is over. Being a Tech.Ed virgin and given all the hype I have heard from fellow developers, I’d have to say my expectations for the conference were quiet high. So you can imagine how disappointed I am now having been [...]
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Microsoft patterns & practices have just released Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009. The goal of patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance is to help customers understand how to develop large scale, content-driven SharePoint applications that extend the value of existing line of business systems.
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test [...]
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Just a quick note to let you know that I will be attending the Australian Microsoft TechEd conference on September 9th to 11th. I will be providing updates throughout the day so be sure to keep posted, especially on all things SharePoint 2010 related. To make sure you don’t miss out on any news, be [...]
Microsoft have recently announced that they are de-investing in their Interactive Media Manager solution (the solution the brought you the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint, amongst others) after just announcing that rich media support would be a feature in their Office and SharePoint 2010 offerings.
One can only speculate that the move comes after the recent release [...]
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