The Belgian Information Worker User Group ( BIWUG ) has announced their next session about SharePoint 2010 on Thursday September 8th 2011 in Huizingen at RealDolmen. Agenda 18:00-18:30 Welcome 18:30-19:30 SQL Server for SharePoint Geeks (speaker: Thomas Vochten) 19:30-19:45 Break 19:45-20:45 Office 365...

Microsoft Press announced that they are offering Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook. You can read the full announcement at the Microsoft Press blog . Table of contents Part I Finding Your Place in the Cloud Chapter 1 What’s Happening...

Some great sessions on Office 365 from TechEd 2011 North America: Overview Microsoft Office 365: The Future of Productivity , Eron Kelly Microsoft SharePoint Online Overview , Mark Kashman Microsoft Lync 2010: In the Cloud , Ziv Fass Developer Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of...

Duet Enterprise is a highly anticipated product that blends SAP applications with Microsoft SharePoint to empower information workers with unified and simplified access to data. Join Microsoft and SAP as we introduce this new product through a one-day, worldwide virtual summit on February 1, 2011. More...

SharePoint 2010 Communities enables people to work together in ways that are most effective for them, by providing collaboration tools that anyone can use to share ideas, find people and expertise, and locate business information. Microsoft SharePoint 2010: SharePoint  Communities: Bringing People...

The session recordings of TechEd Europe 2010 are now available online . Here are already the top 10 best rated sessions of TechEd Online, but you’ll find many more on the website: The Case of the Unexplained, 2010: Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich Useful Hacker Techniques: Which Part of Hackers...

Even though it’s summer, the MSDN and TechNet teams are not relaxing on a sunny beach. Instead they are providing you some nice learning materials to sharpen your technical skills. And it doesn’t have to take a lot of your time; they start with info that can be digested in a few minutes already… The...

  After the LinkedIn for Outlook Social Connector , we have recently announced you can plug Facebook and Windows Live into Outlook via the Outlook Social Connector. Read more about the Facebook and Windows Live Outlook Social Connector at the Microsoft Office team blog. You can also download the...

Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of collectively deploying Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Exchange 2010 and Communications Server 2007 R2 in their organizations. Download the report “Total Economic...

SharePoint 2010 introduces rich new areas of functionality that create more choices and fresh opportunities for developers and solution architects. Sandboxed solutions, new options for data modeling and data access, and new client programming models with Silverlight and Ajax integration offer a step...

We’ve made the RTM version of the 2010 IW Demonstration & Evaluation Virtual Machines available. The download contains a two Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010. Virtual machine “a” contains the following...

Language packs enable creation of sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010. The following Language Packs for the RTM version can be downloaded: For SharePoint...

Community Day is back with the Fourth Edition of the biggest community event in Belgium! No less than 14 Microsoft user groups combine their efforts to organize this unique knowledge-sharing and networking event . With so many new Microsoft product and technology releases, the content of this Community...

Via the SharePoint Team blog : Upgrade your skills to SharePoint 2010 through a series of self-paced modules of SharePoint 2010 technical training –including demos, presentations and hosted hands-on-labs now available through the Partner Learning Center! With two different tracks, both IT professionals...

  Mike Ganotti , the Social Media Samurai that regularly goes on Productivity Adventures , created a series of informational and fun videos on Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010: Office Web Applications “Comprised of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, Microsoft Office Web Applications...

TechEd Europe announced on Twitter that the conference will be held in Berlin 8-12 November 2010 . Register before 5 July and save 500 EUR. Join the mailing list to get the latest news and get informed when registration opens. Technorati Tags: teched , teched europe , tee10 , berlin

Announcement on the SharePoint product team blog : “Today, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010.” Read more about it at the SharePoint product...

Microsoft’s Chief Information Officer Tony Scott talks about critical trends facing the IT industry in 2010, including cloud computing, virtualization, and the ongoing need to reduce costs and improve efficiency. More insights on how Microsoft Does IT at http://www.microsoft.com/itshowcase . You can...

The Official Microsoft Blog writes about two announcements on the social features of Office 2010 : The LinkedIn for Outlook Social Connector is available for download Additionally, we’re announcing new Outlook integrations with Facebook and MySpace . More info is available at the Official...

Selecting the right server hardware for a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 deployment becomes much easier when you know the product team's scalability and performance guidelines. In this webcast, we review the product team's guidance for the processor and memory requirements of each server role in Exchange...

The Microsoft Online Services team blog lists their latest webcasts that are now available for download: Getting Your Directory and Mail Content Into Microsoft Online Services: An Overview Business Solutions on BPOS: An HR On-boarding Case Study Bet your Business on Microsoft Online Services Migration...

Matthijs Hoekstra blogged about the online availability of the session videos and presentation decks of SharePoint 2010 Connections on 18 & 19 January in Amsterdam. Check them out, free of charge!

The new Exchange 2010 webcast series is live! Register to watch or download the recorded video or podcast. A full list of topics and presenters is below. Each webcast is approx. 60 minutes in length. Looking for something shorter? We also have a new series of “How Do I” videos dedicated to Exchange 2010...

Now available for download: a set of two Virtual Machines for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (beta) . Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software: Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the...

Microsoft Corp recently started running a series of Live Meeting sessions where senior Microsoft executives talk about the areas they are working on and where you get the opportunity to pose questions to them. You can pre-submit your questions when you register or ask them live during the chat. The chats...