SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples are now available on Microsoft Developer Network 's Samples website. A extremely useful resource for developers. SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples Each code sample is part of the SharePoint 2010 101 code samples project...

The new 2011 Enterprise Search MarketScope by Gartner was recently published (link: MarketScope for Enterprise Search ). Microsoft is again ranked a ‘ Strong Positive ,’ the highest ranking given on the report. Gartner indicates that “Microsoft...

Office Web Apps give users a browser-based viewing and editing experience by providing a representation of an Office document in the browser. When a user clicks on a document stored in a SharePoint document library, the document opens directly in the...

Many organizations are going for a Video Sharing solution based on SharePoint technologies for their Intranet and also for Internet web properties. In SharePoint 2007 era, the most popular choice was the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS) available on...

A new white paper - " Scale Test Report for Very Large-Scale Document Repositories " is available on the Microsoft Download Center . This white paper provides details about a test lab that was run at Microsoft to show large scale SharePoint Server...

SharePoint 2010 product and documentation teams and, the developer evangelists have done a great job of providing developers and IT Pros with learning material online. This content can be accessed mainly through the product homepages on MSDN and TechNet...

A new TechNet article - Best practices for search in SharePoint Server 2010 describes best practices for configuring and maintaining search in SharePoint Server 2010. Personally, practice #4 was new to me 4. Defragment the search database - The search...

In Office 365, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and Lync Server 2010 are hosted in Microsoft cloud datacenters to provide collaboration and communication as software-as-a-service (SaaS). Along with the launch of Office 365 Public Beta , Microsoft has also...

Microsoft has launched the Public beta of Office 365 today. Read: Office 365 Hits Public Beta, Small Businesses Get the Next Generation Cloud Productivity Service and Office 365 Public Beta is Here! For those new to Office 365, please refer to What...

Last week Microsoft launched the new Why Microsoft website as part of The Future of Productivity website . On this website you can find useful information to compare Microsoft’s productivity platform against Google Apps, IBM, Cisco and OpenOffice...

Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010, the new name for Microsoft Office Groove, is a client application (included with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 ) for SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. It provides offline access to SharePoint...

Private cloud computing built on virtualization technology provides ways to reduce the capital cost by allowing you to utilize more of your existing resources. Using Windows Server 2008 R2 , Hyper-V , System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and...

Many organizations include users who are distributed across WAN links and users who are not always connected to the network. A new TechNet article for our SharePoint customers - Client solutions for WAN environments (SharePoint Server 2010) describes...

SharePoint Online delivers SharePoint as a cloud service. It helps businesses create sites to share documents and insights and enable collaboration between colleagues, partners, and customers. People can also customize these capabilities to address specific...

Office Web Apps are the online companion to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, Office Web Apps enables users to access and edit documents from anywhere you have a connection to your organization’s SharePoint site. Users can view, share...

Federated Search Connectors allow a search solution based on any Microsoft Enterprise Search product - Microsoft Search Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft...

As part of Office 365 offering , a subscription pricing model for Office will be available called Microsoft Office Professional Plus desktop suite. This suite includes the following Office 2010 Applications: Microsoft Access 2010 Microsoft Excel...

On 19th October, 2010 Microsoft announced Office 365 , a new service that brings Office desktop software and Office Web Apps, together with SharePoint, Exchange and Lync in the cloud. Read the Press Release: Microsoft Office 365: The Power to Think Big...

SharePoint Server 2010 Usage Best Practices White Paper is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center . In this white paper, you will learn how to manage content effectively, how to choose the best option for displaying content, and the...

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search training course provides a series of hands-on labs, presentations, and videos that demonstrate how to enable high-end enterprise search with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft FAST Search Server...

How often you wanted to figure out what SKU(s) of SharePoint 2010 family of products in installed on a particular server. Well, that's really easy to do by checking the relevant registry keys. The path to check in the Windows Registry is: " SOFTWARE...

By using PowerPoint 2010, you can share and reuse individual slide content by storing those slides in a "Slide Library" on a SharePoint 2010 server. A simple but powerful feature; specially for those who work a lot on presentations. The combination...

Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, enabling people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. I had given an overview in my previous post - Office...

Outlook application provides you with a world-class experience to stay productive and in touch with your personal and business networks. With the release of Outlook 2010, you get a richer set of experiences - from a redesigned look to advanced e-mail...

Most content sources can be crawled using the integrated indexing connectors in SharePoint Server 2010. These indexing connectors are set up by configuring the FAST Search connector Content Search Service Application (Content SSA). In addition to these...