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 Together
Use this presentation to introduce the SharePoint 2010 Communities capability to technical and business decision makers.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Communities: An Integrated Collaboration Platform
Use this presentation to have a product-focused conversation with technical and business decision makers about the SharePoint 2010 Communities capability.

More SharePoint 2010 resources for Microsoft Partners are available on the Microsoft Partner Network.

Recently some new resources on Enterprise Search with SharePoint were made available for Microsoft partners:

Getting Started with Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 Products
This guide introduces enterprise search in the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 product line. Enterprise search in SharePoint 2010 products spans many features, capabilities, and licensing models. This guide helps you match the features and capabilities of the different products to your customer’s enterprise search requirements.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide
This guide is designed for technical decision makers, IT professionals, and developers. The guide describes the design goals and details of the enterprise search features provided by Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This guide is also designed to familiarize you with how to implement enterprise search by using SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Evaluation Guide
This guide is designed for technical decision makers, IT professionals, and developers. The guide describes the design goals and details of the enterprise search features provided by Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. The guide is also designed to familiarize you with how to implement enterprise search by using FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

For free developer & IT professional online training on Enterprise Search with SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search Server, check out my previous post on Free Online Training for SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search.

More SharePoint training & resources for Microsoft partners are available at http://www.sharepoint2010readiness.com/.

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

SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search IT Professional Training
Learn about deployment, administration, maintenance, and about crawling and indexing content, and defining the user experience.

SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Developer Training
Learn about crawling and indexing content and defining the user experience. By completing these modules, you can build most of the Contoso Research Demo and gain a broad understanding of how to apply these design principles to your site.

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' Knowledge Will Help You in …
• Open Data for the Open Web
• Windows Sysinternals Primer: Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and More
• Zen of Architecture
• Authentication and Passwords: The Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly! (repeats …
• A Modular Approach to Development Process
• The Secrets of Effective Technical Talks: How to Explain Tech without Tucking …
• Keynote Day 2
• Hyper-V and Dynamic Memory in Depth

Join us and explore Microsoft Lync 2010, the next generation of Communications Server

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 ushers in a new connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere.

Join us at one of the roadshow locations (Mons, Antwerp or Zaventem) and explore what’s new in Lync 2010. During this half day event we will guide you through two main topics:

• What’s new in Clients, Devices, Architecture & Interoperability in Lync 2010
  Microsoft Lync promises to transform the way people communicate across the PC, Web and Phone, making traditional communications systems obsolete. In this session we will talk about Microsoft’s vision for transforming business communications and the key investments we are making in Microsoft Lync that will lead this industry transformation.

• How to manage, migrate and maintain your Lync 2010 Infrastructure & UC Applications
  Microsoft Lync Server 2010 features a new way of deploying and administering a Microsoft Lync infrastructure. This session will review these new administration tools, dive into the Lync Server Control Panel and the Lync Server Management Shell, and look at how Role Based Access Control can help you set granular permissions in your Microsoft Lync infrastructure. How to plan and move from Office Communications Server 2007/2007 R2, to Microsoft Lync Server 2010 for servers and clients. It addresses the implications of various migration and coexistence approaches, as well as covering Microsoft’s investments to support migration from prior versions of Microsoft Lync Server 2010. See what you can build with the Lync 2010 Application Platform: Building Communications Enabled Business Process Applications.

Don’t miss this opportunity and register for free:

• 13 December, Mons
• 14 December, Antwerp
• 15 December, Zaventem

Speakers:

• Annelies Bulkens
  Product Marketing Manager UC, Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg
• Johan Delimon
  MVP UC, Ordina
• Dirk Gullentops
  Technical Advisor, Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg