Microsoft Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server site collection for 2007 and 2010 that serves as learning community and is fully customizable. It provides central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft also provides ongoing and updated content packs. Hub uses SharePoint Server’s social networking capabilities, such as blogs and discussion groups. In addition, it offers Coach program, a change management feature to help you train end users to self-help, reducing burden on your training and IT staff @ ditii.com
SharePoint 2010 CMIS Connector: Microsoft has released their SharePoint 2010 CMIS Connector - a SharePoint solution that aids integration of enterprise content management systems.(CMIS stands for Content Management Interoperability Specification) @ sharepoint2007security.com
Ribbon Menu Interactive Guides for Visio, Project & InfoPath 2010 released: Microsoft has released some more interactive guides which will help you learn the Ribbon interface – this time for Microsoft Visio 2010, Project 2010 & InfoPath 2010. These interactive tutorials will help you to find commands in the 2010 versions of Visio, Project & InfoPath. The guide is a simulation of the old menu version @ thewindowsclub.com
New Visual Programming Tool - LightSwitch: Visual Studio LightSwitch is a Visual Studio-based, wizard-driven .NET application development environment targeted for business users. LightSwitch aims to close the gap between full-feature .NET application development and the ad hoc applications and solutions built with Excel, Access and SharePoint. Featuring an intuitive, wizard-driven interface, LightSwitch provides a code-free app building experience designed to appeal to business power users @ adtmag.com
Knowledge Network SharePoint Tools: The Knowledge Network contains several tools and other resources to help IT pros make informed, forward-thinking decisions when it comes to deploying, using and delivering business value using Microsoft’s content management and collaboration software @ itbusinessedge.com
Market Demand for Standards-based Electronic Signatures: On the ten-year anniversary of the FDA issuance of the final rule for 21 CFR Part 11 for Electronic Records, EDM vendors worldwide are lining up to support the adoption of standards-based electronic signatures (digital signatures) within their solutions. This meets the growing demand for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors to support standards-based electronic signatures for life science, Healthcare, Government, Finance and other industries @ lifestyletom.com
Microsoft Launches Certifications for Office 2010: Called Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS), the three levels of certifications are specialist, expert, and master. They are the only official certifications for Microsoft Office 2010 products and, in a statement, the company said it expects as many as a million people will take and pass the exams over the next year, earning one or more of the certifications @ itmanagement.earthweb.com
Customizing SharePoint 2010 List Forms with InfoPath 2010: One of the exciting features in InfoPath 2010 is the ability to extend or enhance the forms used by SharePoint lists for creating, editing, or showing list items. Today, you can modify list forms layouts, set validation rules, or create additional views using little or no code. When you are finished modifying the list forms, reflecting your changes back to SharePoint is just a matter of using the one-click publishing capability that comes out of the box with the list form @ p2p.wrox.com
Installieren von SharePoint Server 2010: Hier eine kleine Anleitung, wie ein SharePoint Server 2010 installiert werden kann. Dabei sind die Voraussetzungen für SharePoint Server 2010 zu berücksichtigen. Grundsätzlich wird dringend empfohlen, immer eine englische Version des SharePoint Servers auf einen englisches Betriebssystem zu installieren, da ein späterer Wechsel der Sprache durch Microsoft nicht supportet ist @ blogs.msdn.com
Introduction to designing a form in InfoPath 2010: InfoPath offers options to enable you to create forms for collecting information from users or displaying information from a data source. This article takes you through the steps necessary to get started, design, setup, and publish an InfoPath form @ office.microsoft.com