SharePoint 2010

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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 September 16th, 2009

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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Scott Samuels on September 6th, 2009

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 [...]

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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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Scott Samuels on July 29th, 2009

A few weeks back Microsoft provided a sneak peak of the Office 2010 suite and, more importantly, SharePoint 2010. Some of you may be salivating over some of the functionality presented in the SharePoint 2010 sneak peak. So why wait until SharePoint 2010 is released to get the new functionality when your MOSS 2007 implementation [...]

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Scott Samuels on July 15th, 2009

Microsoft has posted a set of SharePoint 2010 “sneak peek” features and videos for  which you will find at
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx
You  can now look through short videos (Overview, IT Pro, Developer), Getting Ready Guidance & a set of Frequently Asked Questions. Make sure you check it out to stay in the loop!
Thanks goes to Chris Burrows [...]

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Scott Samuels on July 3rd, 2009

There seems to be a lot of speculation going on with regards to what will be included in the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release. I seem to think that Microsoft have had their largest Technology Adoption Program (TAP) running for some time now and best of all YOU can become a part of it (if you [...]

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