SharePoint Foundation 2010 & SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Reference from Microsoft

Microsoft has releaesd Technical Reference for SharePoint Foundation 2010 & SharePoint Server 2010. These documents are available for download at the Microsoft Download Centre.

Microsoft to release Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 in June

At the ongoing TechEd 2011, Microsoft officially unveiled the availability of Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. The release is on the track and will be made available at the end of June 2011.

SharePoint 2010 FireStarter Videos now available on Channel 9

Microsoft kicked off the new year with the SharePoint 2010 Firestarter event. This all-day, in-person event was held in Redmond, WA and streamed online.

ShowMe for SharePoint 2010

Not surprisingly, one of the most frequent requests from SharePoint customers is for information worker training and more comprehensive help for end users. This issue cuts across the rich, diverse, and powerful capabilities of SharePoint; it applies regardless of whether information workers use the platform for 

The first cumulative update for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released as six individual packages.

The first cumulative update for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released as a delayed June 2010 CU. Unlike the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 cumulative updates this first cumulative update is not available as server package but has been released as 6 individual packages. You can download the fixes using the following links:

New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant is available for purchase! Ben Curry has written another stellar book for Microsoft Press.

You can find more information about this book and other Microsoft Press offerings at the book’s catalog page.

You can see the table of contents and Introduction in this post.

Announcing the release of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit V1

The first version of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit is now available. In the toolkit, includes a couple of tools that were shipped releases and are now adapted to SharePoint 2010, along with two new tools.

– User Profile Replication Engine 2010 (UPRE2010): this tool got a complete overhaul and was converted to PowerShell. It now allows you to replicate Profile and Social data between SharePoint 2010’s User Profile Application (UPA), as well as backward compatibility with SharePoint 2007’s SSP. You can replicate between SSP’s or UPA services, as well as across versions. (Note that only Profile data can be replicated across versions, as SSP contains no Social activity tracking).

– The Security Configuration (SCW) Manifest: SCW is an attack surface reduction feature in Windows Server. This manifest adds roles for SharePoint 2010 Products to Windows Server 2008 with SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

– The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector: enables SharePoint users to interact with content stored in any repository that has implemented the CMIS standard, as well as making SharePoint 2010 content available to any application that has implemented the CMIS standard.

– The Load Testing Kit (LTK): LTK generates a Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS) load test based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IIS logs. The VSTS load test can be used to generate synthetic load against Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 as part of a capacity planning exercise or a pre-upgrade stress test.

The toolkit can be downloaded from here

The toolkit documentation can be found below:

SharePoint Foundation 2010

SharePoint Server 2010

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 exams are now available!

The newest members of the SharePoint exam family are now available!

70-573 — TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

70-576 — PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

70-667 — TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring

70-668 — PRO: SharePoint Server 2010, Administrator

The above links will take you to the official exam pages with audience profiles, skills measured, and other information to help you prepare.

Just getting started with SharePoint 2010? Find out more about upcoming training releases and other support from MS Learning here.

All four exams are available now in English at Prometric test centers worldwide. Localized versions (Japanese, German, French and Brazilian Portuguese) are in the works and will be ready in early August.