SharePoint 2010 Virtual Labs
Microsoft has published a number of Virtual Labs on MSDN and TechNet, simplifying a range of testing scenarios focused on SharePoint 2010. Customers already familiar with Microsoft’s Virtual Labs know that the resources are offered free of charge, and are available to all, not just MSDN and TechNet subscribers
“Microsoft SharePoint 2010 makes it easier for people to work together. Using SharePoint 2010, your people can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions,” Microsoft revealed.
At the bottom of this article, you will be able to find a list of links pointing you to the TechNet and MSDN Virtual Labs for SharePoint Server 2010. Obviously, the TechNet Virtual Labs are focused on IT pros, while the MSDN resources are designed for developers. SharePoint Server 2010 RTM’d in mid-April 2010, along with additional products including Office 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010. As of May 12, 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 along with all the solutions enumerated above became available for purchase to business customers worldwide.
SharePoint Server 2010 Virtual Labs are essentially virtualized instances of the product running in Hyper-V on a Microsoft Server. Customers that want to access the resources will need to be running Windows and use Internet Explorer 8, IE7, or IE6. Since the virtual machines with SharePoint 2010 are running on Microsoft servers, customers don’t need to worry about details such as downloading, deploying or configuring the product. For each Virtual Lab, IT pros and devs get a 90-minute block of time per module, but they can also sign up for more
From TechNet:
TechNet Virtual Lab: Backup and Restore in SharePoint Server 2010
TechNet Virtual Lab: Business Continuity Management in SharePoint Server 2010
TechNet Virtual Lab: Configuring Remote Blob Storage FILESTREAM Provider for SharePoint Server 2010
TechNet Virtual Lab: Configuring Tenant Administration on SharePoint Server 2010
TechNet Virtual Lab: Configuring User Profile Synchronization in SharePoint Server 2010
TechNet Virtual Lab: Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade
TechNet Virtual Lab: New IT Pro Features in SharePoint Server 2010
TechNet Virtual Lab: Windows PowerShell in SharePoint Server 2010
From MSDN:
MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a BCS External Content Type with Visual Studio 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface with Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010
New features in SharePoint Server 2010
Moss 2010 is coming up with lots of new features and functionality that will help a system engineer to work more efficiently. In our sneak preview we found Microsoft has improved the MOSS-2010 on its technical part rather than changing the user appearance in 2010 in comparison to MOSS 2007. So you will see most of the things similar to MOSS 2007, but with more features and ease of use.
Microsoft really worked on it and luckily this time SharePoint 2010 seeks to facilitate each of aforesaid challenges. Now SharePoint 2010 supports:
• Latest .NET 3.5 platform enhancements (such as WCF and LINQ)
• Silverlight 3.0
• The Business Data Catalog (BDC) has become Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• BCS now supports full read/write capabilities
• SharePoint Designer 2010 receives a major upgrade. It now supports creating more complex workflows that are more re-usable.
• Visual Studio 2010 will come with SharePoint 2010 tools that far exceed the extensions available for Visual Studio 2005/2008.
• Web Parts and other SharePoint pages can be built with graphical editors and debugged without leaving the Visual Studio environment.
• The experience will be much more like that of ASP.NET web applications.
The points mentioned above are couple of new add-on/support features that have been added to SharePoint 2010. Based on the features, we categorized them in three main categories as below
SharePoint 2010 Application Layers
SharePoint 2010 Platform Improvements
SharePoint 2010 Development Tools Improvements
Click on each link above to read more about the SharePoint 2010 new features.
Sharepoint 2010 Alpha
Finally Micosoft SharePoint Server 2010 RTM is all set to realease on May 12th 2010. We already did the beta version testing in our lab and though for us would take some time to migrate to 2010 as we had invested a lot in the end user training and customization of apps. But also note that we were ready with our software and hardware requirements and our current environment is MOSS 2007 SP2.
SharePoint 2010 Alpha is yet to come, take a sneak preview of the screens shot of Sharepoint 2010.
click here to see First ScreenShot of the Sharepoint 2010
Sharepoint Alternatives
SharePoint Alternatives
We all know they were a bunch of other collaboration tools which compete SharePoint.
Box Net, Documentum and File net and Open Text.... the list goes on...
It depends on what your users were looking for and what functionality you want to leverage out of that tool is more important than the tool itself.
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Working with Reporting Services Using Microsoft Sharepoint
Introduction
There are many instances in which the business process requires executive reports or some company performance reports to show up on intranet sites. Companies do use different portals to build their intranet sites. Microsoft’s SharePoint technology is one such tool. The main task is how we display the reports stored under SQL Reporting Services on the SharePoint site. Microsoft does provide two Web parts with SQL Reporting Services SP 2. In this section I will share information on using the current web parts provided by Microsoft and then explain what exactly happens behind the scenes to display the report. Finally I will explain how you could create your own web part.
The two web parts provided by Microsoft are Report Explorer and Report Viewer.
Click on the link below to read the complete article
Working with Reporting Services Using Microsoft Sharepoint
SharePoint 2010 Powering U.S. Olympic Committee Pressbox Site!
Whenever there is a large multi-day event of national or international importance the logistical challenges faced in aggregating and disseminating information, press releases and such can be a monumental undertaking. This years Winter Olympics is no exception. With multiple simultaneous events taking place in a variety of geographic locations and physical settings, with so much data being output and news and media organizations worldwide looking to have have instant access to all the event happenings how can an organization like the USOC (United States Olympic Committee) cope? Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with a side helping of Microsoft Silverlight that's how. Microsoft and the USOC have teamed up to bring the Winter Games content and information to reporters through a redesigned press portal powered by SharePoint 2010. The news portal is called Press Box (www.usocpressbox.org).
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