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SharePoint 2010 IT Professional Training Videos on Microsoft

Harish Pavithran — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:09:29 GMT

Overview (taken from the link)

For IT professionals, SharePoint Server 2010 helps to drive productivity by offering an array of enhancements, scalable unified infrastructure, and flexible deployment options.
These 20 presentations and their accompanying videos cover many areas of interest to IT pros.

Core architecture

Understanding SharePoint 2010 Topology SharePointTopology.pptx
Learn about the new changes in the requirements and capabilities of SharePoint 2010 at the topology level, and the impact of these changes when designing a SharePoint 2010 farm environment.
Planning and Leveraging SharePoint 2010 Service Applications LeveragingServiceApps.pptx
Become familiar with the new service applications model, and understand how sites can leverage features and functionality provided by service applications.
Business Continuity Management Features in SharePoint 2010 FeaturesforBCM.pptx
Understand the new features in SharePoint 2010 which can be leveraged in backup and restore, high availability within a farm, and disaster recovery across farm environments.

Security

Using the New SharePoint 2010 Security Model - Part 1 SharePointSecurityPt1.pptx
Learn about the new security roles, features, and functionality needed when securing a SharePoint 2010 server farm.
Using the New SharePoint 2010 Security Model - Part 2 SharePointSecurityPt2.pptx
Learn about the new claims-based identity model available in SharePoint 2010.

Management

Applying Updates in SharePoint 2010 Server Farm Environments PatchingFarmEnvironments.pptx
Become familiar with the new patching process for SharePoint 2010.
Managing SharePoint 2010 Customizations for the IT Pro ManagingCustomizationsITPro.pptx
Understand how to use solution packages and sandboxed solutions in SharePoint 2010.
IT Pro Tools for Customizing SharePoint 2010 ITProToolsforSharePoint.pptx
Learn about the new ways you can use SharePoint Designer 2010, Visio, InfoPath, Access, and Visual Studio 2010 to customize SharePoint 2010.

Upgrade

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Overview UpgradeLearn.pptx
Become familiar with the supported upgrade paths and considerations for upgrading to SharePoint 2010 from a previous version.
Preparing to Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 UpgradePrepare.pptx
Understand different methods and practices to follow before the actual upgrade is performed.
Implementing and Validating Upgrade Plans for SharePoint 2010 UpgradeImplement.pptx
Learn how to implement and validate a SharePoint 2010 upgrade strategy.
Testing Upgraded SharePoint 2010 Solutions UpgradeValidate.pptx
Understand the models for testing the chosen upgrade methods to find issues early.

Enterprise search

Search Capabilities and Features in SharePoint 2010 SearchFeatures.pptx
Understand the new SharePoint 2010 Search capabilities for SharePoint Search in addition to FAST Search.

Content management

Document Management Capabilities and Features in SharePoint 2010 DocManageScenarios.pptx
Become familiar with the new document management capabilities in SharePoint 2010, including document sets, Document Center, scalability, and interoperability services.
Records Management in SharePoint 2010 RecordsManagement.pptx
Become familiar with the new records management capabilities in SharePoint 2010.
Governing Content Types, Policies, and Taxonomy Services in SharePoint 2010 CTandTaxonomy.pptx
Understand managed metadata, managed keywords, term stores, managed metadata columns, and content type publication.

Composite solutions

Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 BCSinSharePoint2010.pptx
Learn about the new BCS features in SharePoint 2010, including the external content types, External Data Web Parts, and external lists.

Communities

Using Social Capabilities in SharePoint 2010 SharePoint2010Social.pptx
Understand the new social feedback, social network, user participation, and people and rxpertise finding capabilities in SharePoint 2010.

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Features in SharePoint 2010 BIFeatures.pptx
Become familiar with the new Excel Services features and functionality.

SharePointOnline

SharePoint Online Overview ONLINE.pptx
Learn about the different possibilities available for SharePoint Online: features, planning considerations, and different deployment options.

All training presentations
SharePoint2010ItProTraining.zip
Download all 20 presentations, plus an index of titles, file names, and descriptions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D765B362-2772-400F-B8A8-1F4E7F0E150B&displaylang=en

MSDN Widget

Harish Pavithran — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:33:53 GMT

Just created a MSDN widget for my blog...

http://geekswithblogs.net/harish/archive/2010/05/19/msdn-widget.aspx

SLAs for BPOS...

Harish Pavithran — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:13:56 GMT

http://geekswithblogs.net/harish/archive/2010/04/28/microsoft-online-dedicated-service-descriptions-and-service-level-agreements-link.aspx

SharePoint Online BPOS Help ...

Harish Pavithran — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:25:28 GMT

Hi here is the link that I like to check out BPOS related help

http://www.microsoft.com/online/help/en-us/helphowto/SharePoint-Online.htm

Visual Studio 2010 How to Videos for SharePoint 2010 Development.

Harish Pavithran — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:23:55 GMT

Nice blog post from Beth Massi talking about MSDN How do I video for SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio, watch how easy it is to deploy a custom workflow and debug it right from VS 2010! I love it... enjoy http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2010/04/27/more-how-do-i-videos-sharepoint-development-with-visual-studio-2010.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit April 2010 Release

Harish Pavithran — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:16:20 GMT

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

C# 4
Visual Basic 10
F#
Parallel Extensions
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Workflow
Windows Presentation Foundation
ASP.NET 4
Windows 7
Entity Framework
ADO.NET Data Services
Managed Extensibility Framework
Visual Studio Team System

This version of the Training Kit works with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. Here is the link enjoy www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx

Migrating to SharePoint to BPOS - SharePoint Online

Harish Pavithran — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:44:33 GMT

Check out this blog post by Danny Burlage talking about migratio to online BPOS based solutions. Worth a watch..

http://www.bposrocks.com/2010/01/migrating-to-sharepoint-online.html

Migration from Exchange to BPOS - Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Link

Harish Pavithran — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:37:14 GMT

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless toolkit that finds computers on a network and performs a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and the Remote Registry Service. The data and analysis provided by this toolkit can significantly simplify the planning process for migrating to Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Server® 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Forefront® Client Security and Network Access Protection. Assessments for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Vista include device driver availability as well as recommendations for hardware upgrades.

If you are interested in server virtualization planning, MAP provides the ability to gather performance metrics from computers you are considering for virtualization and a feature to model a library of potential host hardware and storage configurations. This information can be used to quickly perform "what-if" analysis using Hyper-V and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 as virtualization platforms.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730

BPOS demo ...

Harish Pavithran — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:33:59 GMT

Check out the BPOS demo ..

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/products/Pages/cloud-services.aspx#fbid=EzN03CNDOUp

SharePoint 2010 Cheat Sheet New Features and Highlights

Harish Pavithran — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:44:19 GMT

In my last blog I talked about the new site around SharePoint 2010 and the sneak peak videos. I got a chace to watch them and here are my notes:

SharePoint 2010 Feature Highlights:

New User Interface including new Ribbon
Web Edit
Silverlight Web Part
Rich Theming
Browser support for Safari, Firefox and IE
Visio Services
SharePoint Designer enhancements
Business Connectivity Services (BDC evolution)
SharePoint Workspaces (formerly Groove) or offline libraries
Richer Media Support

SharePoint 2010 Admin Improvements:

New SA user interface, with a ribbon based interface
Best practices analyzer fix performance issue and configuration issues
Usage Reporting and Logging analytics much richer..
Large list resource Throttling
Unattached Content Database Recovery via admin UI
Visual Upgrade

SharePoint 2010 Developer Improvements:

Visual Studio SharePoint Tools
Better deployment, BCS Entity creation support
TFS support, automated build, CI etc.
LINQ for SharePoint - no more CAML…
Developer Dashboard
Any page can be enabled to debug or trace all the SPRequest object activity
Client Object Model (OM)
New API for SP 2010 to write custom client based apps (rich UI) against SP lists and data
JavaScript, .NET , or Silverlight code can call this
Silverlight Web Part

SharePoint 2010 Developer Video

Harish Pavithran — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:28:00 GMT

Check out the new features in SharePoint 2010. Really cool stuff. I highly recommend watching the video here. The cools stuff I remember is LINQ for SharePoint !! how cool is that? no more CAML queries.. blur....anyway watch the presentations that show easy it is to deploy a WSP file into the dev SharePoint page. .. I love it....

For more info on how EMC Application Consulting Services can help you get ready for SharePoint Server 2010 please contact me through this blog Harish Pavithran.

Developer Video

Business intelligence: The five dimensions

Harish Pavithran — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:05:05 GMT

Business intelligence: The five dimensions

This is a good article on BI .. take a read Business intelligence: The five dimensions

Technorati Tags: BI

Service Factory Rocks...!!

Harish Pavithran — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:58:00 GMT

Check out the services factory especially the WCF Guidance Package. Really nice...!! the layered architecture, the autogeneration of mapping between the entity classes and the data contracts is nice. The Data Guidance Package is nice too. Heres a link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480534.aspx to the download and documentaiton. I am interested in hearing what other folks think

Harish K. Pavithran

Harish Pavithran — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:55:00 GMT

Harish is currently a Senior Manager at Wipro Consulting Services and plays a role of Enterprise Architect.

Harish Pavithran offers a wealth of professional experience in architecting and leading enterprise class solutions. His current interests are in the Cloud, Portal and Collaboration, SOA, EA, Integration Architecture and IT Strategy.

Expert knowledge in Azure, SharePoint,BizTalk, .NET technologies around WCF and XML. Strong SDLC and delivery skills as well and Enterprise Architecture and architecting the Shared and Outsourced strategies on public and private clouds.

Specialties

Collaboration and Integration. Private and Public Cloud Strategy, Service Oriented Architecture with Web 2.0 and portal front ends, Integration Architecture, BizTalk,.SharePoint 2010, NET Architecture, Web Service Extensions, WS* standards, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Leadership on large distributed custom development projects using Team System and TFS.

Please comment on blog if you want to reach me

Weird behaviour with Database functoids in BizTalk 2004 with SP1

Harish Pavithran — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:15:00 GMT

OK - I must be going crazy but here is a lesson learned with the database functoid. We spent about 2 days trying to figure out why we getting the wrong lookup values in the map and got tired of just figuring what out whats going on. Here is our solution. We receive a flat file that needs to be converted into a eConnect schema. Simple so far. We need to simple database lookup so we decide to use the database lookup functoid and the value extractor functoid. The functiod worked great when we unit tested in Visual Studio (of course the config value needs to be in the visual studio.exe.config. Now, when we run a file that has about 200 interchanges (or batch size) we run into this weird issue of not having the right values populated - its almost like the functiod has a mind of its own. Of-course, we decided to write a custom assembly that does the same thing and called it using a scripting functiod and voilà it works like magic now without any issues. Anyone know if this true in BizTalk 2006?

Follow up... October 31, 2006

Okay folks Microsoft is aware of this bug and has posted a fix in BizTalk 2004 SP2 found here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924330/

BizTalk 2002 R2 TAP Program nominations open!!!

Harish Pavithran — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:42:00 GMT

Welcome to the BizTalk 2006 R2 Technology Adoption Program (TAP)

BizTalk 2006 R2 TAP Nominations are Open!

Nomination forms will be reviewed and BizTalk Server 2006 R2 TAP participants will be selected by July 31st, 2006.

What is BizTalk 2006 R2?

BizTalk 2006 R2 is a product refresh that includes added features to BizTalk 2006 and enhancements to improve compatibility with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.

BizTalk 2006 R2 New Capabilities Include:

Microsoft EDI Solution for BizTalk 2006

Microsoft’s EDI Solution for BizTalk adds full featured EDI capabilities to BizTalk 2006 with over 6000 schemas that include HIPAA, X12, and EDIFACT support. More

Microsoft RFID

The Microsoft RFID Infrastructure Services in BizTalk 2006 R2 provide device abstraction and manageability to RFID-based solutions. More

BizTalk Adapter for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

The BizTalk WCF Adapter allows BizTalk to expose and consume WS-* web services. More

WinFX Adapter Framework

The framework provides a common basis for building integration adapters that can be consumed by a variety of client applications (BizTalk, Office BI, .NET Applications). More

WinFX Line of Business (LOB) Adapters

The WCF LOB adapters deliver application, database and transport adapters to customers, implementing a common Adapter Framework, which in turn is built on top of the Windows Communication Framework (SAP, Siebel, Oracle DB, and TIBCO RV). More

BAM interceptors for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and WCF

How do I Participate in the BizTalk R2 TAP?

If you are interested in participating in the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 TAP please review the Program Description and submit a completed BizTalk 2006 R2 Nomination Form and a TAP Program Manager will contact you. Once you have been accepted in to the TAP you will be able to download all R2 beta builds.

Nomination forms will be reviewed and BizTalk Server 2006 R2 TAP participants will be selected by July 31st, 2006.

We look forward to your participation,

The BizTalk 2006 R2 TAP Team!

For additional inquires please contact BTSR2TAP

VSTS installation issues..

Harish Pavithran — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:43:00 GMT

I was trying to create a virtual image with Visual Studio Suite, BTS 2006, SQL Server 2005. But WSS has to be installed in a special way for VSTS so it has be a different image than the one that I am using for BTS 2006 and BAS, Bummer.. I dont know of a way around this. .. anyway for those curious heres the link for the official installation instruction, by the time you read this one I think you will qualify for a honarary degree in something.. Microsoftolgy..perhaps? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E&displaylang=en

Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007 is now available

Harish Pavithran — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:20:00 GMT

I just got this in the mail - I am just a tad confused on how they went from Commerce Server 2006 Beta 2 to Commerce Server 2007 RC1 ? hmmm.. interesting I'll bet there are some break through changes that warranted this change in name !! Kidding .. read on .. folks..

The Microsoft Commerce Server team is pleased to announce that the Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007 is now available to download on http://connect.microsoft.com .

Release Notes:

Note that with this Release Candidate, a name change to Commerce Server 2006 to Commerce Server 2007 has been implemented. Microsoft decided to rename Commerce Server to 2007 to be more in sync with the Office 2007, Exchange 2007 and Windows Vista wave of product releases and our general branding guidelines. This is a name change only and does not affect any features, support, or anything else.

The CS2007 RC contains the English-only, Enterprise Edition for x86 and x64 platforms; other languages and editions will be available at RTM

The CS2007 RC will expire on September 30th, 2006

The CS2007 RC is for testing purposes only, and is not supported by Microsoft in production environments except for authorized TAP customers

This release does not include an updated Starter Site, that will be available in the RTM timeframe

Portal Integration FAQ can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2006/03/03/543073.aspx

Installation

Please review the installation guide included with the download package, or online (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=57268)
Find out more about this release by viewing the readme doc.
Visit http://connect.microsoft.com to download the release

If you are an existing member of the CS2006 Connect site, you can sign-in with your existing Microsoft Passport account

If you do not wish to receive e-mail messages from Microsoft Connect in the future, please send e-mail to mchelp@microsoft.com with the subject line: "Remove From List." Information on how to contact Microsoft Connect support is found on the Contact Us page within the Microsoft Connect Web site.This is an unmonitored e-mail address, so please do not reply to this message.

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now free

Harish Pavithran — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:40:00 GMT

Check it out I read this at techspot - Virtual Server is now a free download!!

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now free. Yes, free, gratis, and without charge. Microsoft has made their Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition freely available, surely an important move given the mounting industry interest in virtualization.

"Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 was first launched in September 2004; the cost was $999 for Enterprise Edition and $499 for Standard Edition. In December 2005 Microsoft began offering Virtual Server 2005 for $199 Enterprise Edition and $99 Standard Edition. As of today, Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition is free to download here. Standard Edition is no longer being offered. Additionally, the availability of virtual machine add-ins for Linux and a technical product support model for Linux guest operating systems running on Virtual Server 2005 R2", said a Microsoft spokesperson. source: http://www.techspot.com/news/21144-microsoft-virtual-server-2005-r2-now-free.html

New features webcast on MSDN by Kris Horrocks at MSDN

Harish Pavithran — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:52:00 GMT

Kris Horrocks introduces some of the new features of BizTalk Server 2006. See demos of the all new BizTalk Administration Console and Group Hub Page, as well as technical demonstrations of new core engine features like recoverable interchanges and end-to-end ordered message delivery. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060309biztalkkh/manifest.xml Check it out!

Connected World Through Architecture - Harish Pavithran

SharePoint 2010 IT Professional Training Videos on Microsoft

Overview (taken from the link)

MSDN Widget

SLAs for BPOS...

SharePoint Online BPOS Help ...

Visual Studio 2010 How to Videos for SharePoint 2010 Development.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit April 2010 Release

Migrating to SharePoint to BPOS - SharePoint Online

Migration from Exchange to BPOS - Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Link

BPOS demo ...

SharePoint 2010 Cheat Sheet New Features and Highlights

SharePoint 2010 Feature Highlights:

New User Interface including new Ribbon

Web Edit

Silverlight Web Part

Rich Theming

Browser support for Safari, Firefox and IE

Visio Services

SharePoint Designer enhancements

Business Connectivity Services (BDC evolution)

SharePoint Workspaces (formerly Groove) or offline libraries

Richer Media Support

SharePoint 2010 Admin Improvements:

New SA user interface, with a ribbon based interface

Best practices analyzer fix performance issue and configuration issues

Usage Reporting and Logging analytics much richer..

Large list resource Throttling

Unattached Content Database Recovery via admin UI

Visual Upgrade

SharePoint 2010 Developer Improvements:

Visual Studio SharePoint Tools

Better deployment, BCS Entity creation support

TFS support, automated build, CI etc.

LINQ for SharePoint - no more CAML…

Developer Dashboard

Any page can be enabled to debug or trace all the SPRequest object activity

Client Object Model (OM)

New API for SP 2010 to write custom client based apps (rich UI) against SP lists and data

JavaScript, .NET , or Silverlight code can call this

Silverlight Web Part

SharePoint 2010 Developer Video

Business intelligence: The five dimensions

Service Factory Rocks...!!

Harish K. Pavithran

Specialties

Weird behaviour with Database functoids in BizTalk 2004 with SP1

BizTalk 2002 R2 TAP Program nominations open!!!

VSTS installation issues..

Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007 is now available

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now free

New features webcast on MSDN by Kris Horrocks at MSDN