It is official now that the next version of SharePoint, which we used to call SharePoint 14 or SharePoint v.Next will be called SharePoint 2010.  You may notice that the term “Office” has been removed from the name.  So the MOSS acronym does not fit anymore.  You can read the details @ http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

These modules includes document and videos that explain SharePoint Web Content Management (WCM) architecture, bulding content management sites, server infrastructure and deployment.  So if you are learning or working on SharePoint WCM, these modules are definitely a good starting point.

A total 6 of modules are available for download:

• Module 1 - Web Content Management Overview
• Module 2 - Architecting Content Management for your web site
• Module 3 - Server Infrastructure and Content Deployment
• Module 4 - Securing a Web Content Management System
• Module 5 - Optimzing Performance for Web Content Management
• Module 6 - Extending Web Content Management

More details

Microsoft has expanded its Window Server family with Windows 2008 Server foundation, which is mainly targetted at small businesses with 15 or fewer employees.  And of course it can grow with the business by providing the ability to upgrade to other editions of Windows Server.  Applications that have been certified for Windows Server 2008 can be deployed on Windows 2008 Server Foundation as well.

Windows 2008 Server Foundation can be deployed for the following uses:

• Core Infrastructure
• Active Directory
• Terminal Services
• Applications

More details could be found on Windows 2008 Server Foundation Home

These are very good introductory online course if you are a .NET developer and interested to learn more about SharePoint. 

A total of 12 modules are available:

Module 1: Developing Solutions on SharePoint Platform

Module 2: Web Parts

Module 3: Page Navigation

Module 4: Page Branding

Module 5: Data Lists

Module 6: Web Services

Module 7: Event Handlers

Module 8: Content Types and Site Columns

Module 9: Workflow

Module 10: User Management

Module 11: Silverlight

Module 12: Deployment

This is mainly a note to myself since I keep forgetting this.  If you have deployed SharePoint using least privileges service accounts for your SharePoint, you would be encountering “Access denied” error message when activating the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure.

You can manually activate Publishing Resources via stsadm

Microsoft has made it official that SharePoint Designer 2007 is now a FREE download for everyone.  If you are new to SharePoint development, SharePoint Designer 2007 is one of the tool that you would probably used to design custom master pages, custom page layouts, workflows and custom aspx pages.

You can get more details on the product at the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Site

If you want to start downloading them, you can download here

Well, due to the MVP Summit, there was no meeting for March 2009.  And now we are back for the April meeting.

Date: April 09, 2009 Thursday

Location: Microsoft Singapore Level 22 CF-12

Scalable SharePoint Infrastructure Management
Wong Chuin Hun, AvePoint

Grow your SharePoint implementation with ease and confidence. SharePoint administration tools provides organizations universal control over their enterprise-wide SharePoint landscape, from a single farm to hundreds of farms with top administration to do mass security and configuration administration, content management to achieve full range topology management and deployment management to automate the SharePoint implementation lifecycle from staging to production to manage a highly scalable SharePoint environment.

About the speaker:
Wong Chuin Hun is a SharePoint Solution Consultant from AvePoint, focusing on scalable infrastructure management solutions for SharePoint.

SharePoint with No Deployment
Steve Sofian, nichefield & Sarbjit Sigh Gill, BT

A quick look at the new SharePoint Online offering from Microsoft. Built on top of MOSS 2007, provide a single, integrated location where users can efficiently collaborate and a simplified IT management by removing the need to deploy, configure, monitor and update.
We will also take a quick look on customizing a SharePoint Online site.

About the speaker:
Steve Sofian is a Solution Architect from nichefield, and also one the SharePoint MVP in Singapore.  Sarbjit Singh Gill is a Solution Architect from BT, who focus on OCS, Exchange, SharePoint and OCS, and he is also one of the SharePoint MVP in Singapore.

To register, please drop me an email at ssofian at mvps dot org.  Thanks.

You might have noticed that my blog seems like a new blog.  While upgrading my blog, I thought I have FTP down my old posts, however, they were no where to be found :(.  Guess it is one of those days and not an April Fool's joke.

Terribly sorry if you have bookmarked any post and the post was gone.  Maybe this is a hint that I should start a fresh and bring in new perspective and more interesting article to the blog.

Thank you for continuing your support.