In case you want structured training to learn FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint , you can check out the courses available from the FAST University. Microsoft's FAST University is a structured learning service that provides technical training...

Apart from the SDK documentation, Technical article, How-To and Video formats, Microsoft is also providing learning content in " Quick Note " format for SharePoint 2010 . Quick Notes are 2-4 page tasks in a single scenario. Combined, they provide an...

The Microsoft patterns & practices (p&p) team has released Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 - a deep technical insight into the key concepts and issues for SharePoint 2010 solution developers. It contains guidance documentation, detailed...

My favorite Outlook add-in Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) from Microsoft Office Labs got updated recently . When you send an email FAD checks the mail content against a pre-configured list of keywords that indicate you’ve forgotten to...

There is lot of information on various Microsoft websites and the Internet on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Technologies. This resource guide is an attempt to build a reference directory of useful links on SharePoint. This post gets updated every 2 months...

Recently published Co-authoring administration (SharePoint Server 2010) TechNet article provides guidance for administrators to configure co-authoring for their organization. Many of these are using Windows PowerShell cmdlets. Configure versioning...

After the RTM milestone of SharePoint 2010, the SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit (published on 14th Dec 2009) has been updated. There is lot of new and updated learning content in it, so remove the Beta Kit and download updated version from...

The RTM version of 2010 IW Demo Virtual Machine set is now available for download here: 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) - This download contains a two Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine set for...

What is Docs? Docs allows Facebook users to create, save, edit and share Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) documents online with their Facebook friends. Docs shows up as an App on your Facebook profile and new documents also show up in...

SharePoint Server 2010 delivers a broad set of content management capabilities for organizations to manage content. One of the new capabilities is the "Document Set" feature. (To know more on what's new for document management read the Introducing Document...

As SharePoint 2010 is moving closer to launch date, lot of new information related to deployment is being published. Following white papers and case studies have been published recently on the Microsoft Download Center to provide guidance on performance...

Recently published Extranet Topologies for SharePoint 2010 Products diagram illustrates the specific extranet topologies that have been tested with SharePoint 2010 Products. Edge firewall Back-to-back perimeter Back-to-back perimeter with...

Internet Explorer 8 Performance Whitepaper has been published recently in the Microsoft Download Center . This document contains tips & tricks for how to optimize browser performance for Internet Explorer 8. Some of these tips are very useful but...

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. Office Web Apps is available to consumers and businesses...

If you want to boost your Microsoft Office skills, you can try out a cool game – Ribbon Hero . Its an add-in, sits in the "Ribbon" area of Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007/2010 applications and displays the points you have scored. There are two ways...

In case you did not notice, Office Web Apps will not work for documents in Information Rights Management (IRM) protected libraries. If you try to open/edit a IRM protected document in browser, you will notice an error similar to this: For IRM-protected...

Broadcast Slide Show feature allows a user to broadcast a presentation from PowerPoint 2010 to other users – either Internal or External. The presenter needs to select a service from a list of broadcast services displayed by PowerPoint 2010. This list...

What is Open XML? Open XML defines formats for word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents in the form of specific markup languages, namely WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML, and PresentationML. An Open XML file is stored in a ZIP archive...

In the FAST search system, an item processing service performs required processing on content retrieved to prepare it for indexing. Examples of item processing are mapping of crawled properties to managed properties, parsing of document formats, linguistic...

Expanding on the brief information in Information on FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint , this post is on what the components of FAST search system are and what function they perform. This should help you understand the FAST search system better....

February seems to be the favored month for Search roadmap updates in Microsoft. On Feb 10, 2009 the Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map press release disclosed a detailed road map from Microsoft for its enterprise search products, including...

To provide guidance on how to develop for SharePoint 2010 , a developer training kit has been provided for download on the Microsoft Download Center . Seeing its content, I would rate it as a must have resource for developers. Download it from this...

What is PowerShell? Windows PowerShell is roughly the modern (and very powerful) version of command line tool CMD.exe. It's powerful scripting environment for administration purposes and PowerShell scripting is becoming the preferred way to manage...

The Enterprise Search Evaluation Guides for SharePoint 2010 product family are now available from the Microsoft Download Center now. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide - describes the enterprise search features of SharePoint...

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta is available for download now. You can download it from either of following links: TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390819...