For those of you who didn't register for the tech-ed, please do. you'll miss a lot

For those of you who didn't register for the tech-ed, please do. you'll miss a lot

Here is another program from Microsoft to help customers adopt and deploy Lync; Device Replacement.
We are partnering with Vology (http://www.vds.com) & Cxtec (http://www.cxtec.com) to buy/replace/trade-in customers old phones…so we are helping customers preserve their investment.
The Lync Server Open Interoperability Program is now available
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg131938.aspx
Other useful Links:
- Hardware Requirements. Link
- Bandwidth Table. Link
- Lync New features – server side. Link
- Lync New features – Client Side. Link
- Port Requirements. Link
- Lync Server 2010 Protocol Workloads Poster. Link
- Architecture – Server Roles. Link
- Architecture – Topologies. Link
Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA is back on January 22nd, 2011. This is the second annual SPSEMEA and promises to be a huge event with over 30 sessions, 4 simultaneous Live Meeting Channels and a public text chatroom open to participants and speakers.
Registration for SPSEMEA began last Tuesday, January 11 and is free to the global SharePoint Community. There are over 30 SharePoint Evangelists, including 10 SharePoint MVPs, from around the world providing content you would normally only see at a paid SharePoint Conference. Tracks are set for SharePoint End Users and Business Managers on topics for "How We Did It: Real World Case Studies", "No Code/Assembly Solutions", "SharePoint Interface Branding", and "SharePoint for Business". The sessions will be recorded and made available two weeks after the event.
Confirmed Presenters
Agnes Molnar, MVP: Hungary
Andrew Woodward, MVP: United Kingdom
Ant Clay: United Kingdom
Ayman El-Hattab, MVP: Egypt
Brett Lonsdale: United Kingdom
Chirag Patel: United States
Chris Poteet: United States
Christian Buckley: United States
Coskun Cavusoglu: United States
Daniel McPherson: India
Dave Coleman: United Kingdom
Derek Weeks: United States
Eric Riz: Candada
Fabian Williams: United States
Geoff Varosky: United States
Hossam Behery: United States
Ian Woodgate: United Kingdom
Jeremy Thake, MVP: Australia
Jerry Yasir, MVP: Saudi Arabia
Jim Bob Howard: United States
Jose Antonio Morales: United States
Laura Rogers: United States
Mai Omar: Egypt
Marc Anderson, MVP: United States
Mark Rackley: United States
Marwan Tarek, MVP: Egypt
Matt Bramer: United States
Michael Hinckley: United States
Muhammed Nabil: Eygpt
Nicolas Georgeault: France
Nigel Price: United Kingdom
Rackley Mark: United States
Rutherford Wilson: United States
Ruven Gotz, MVP: Canada
Saifullah Shafiq, MVP: United States
Sarah Haase: United States
Symon Garfield: United States
Toni, Isaac, Mark and I will be moderating the sessions, making sure everything is going smoothly.
We hope you'll join us for Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA. Please register in advance to guarantee yourself free access to some of the best presentations available, all aimed at SharePoint End Users.
See you there.
Ayman El-Hattab (@aymanelhattab), Egypt
Mark Miller (@eusp), United States
Toni Frankola (@ToniFrankola), Croatia
Isaac Stith (@MrIsaac), United States
As promised, here is another slide deck from SP2010 development training that I delivered last week to partners @ Microsoft Egypt.
Today I’m sharing a presentation about the main building blocks of SharePoint; Features and Solutions.
Your feedback is appreciated.
View in brower (PowerPoint Web App)
View on SlideShare
Download from SkyDrive
See Also:
SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform– From SharePoint Ignite Training
SharePoint 2010 Architecture Slides–From Ignite Training