I will be presenting at the Information Worker Community Day 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This event is jointly organized by the Malaysia SharePoint User Group and Microsoft Innovation Center (Malaysia).

In many organizations, business data is stored across different systems, legacy systems or custom applications.  Traditionally accessing these data and making it viewable in a web pages, making it searchable requires an enormous amount of custom code.

I will be speaking on the new functionality inside SharePoint Server 2010’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS), evolved from the 2007’s Business Data Catalog, that makes it extremely easy to display, edit these information and searchable within SharePoint 2010.

Event Details:

Event Details

Date:   10^th December 2009, Thursday

Time:   9.00am – 5.00pm

Venue:

Monash University
Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway,
46150, Selangor Darul Ehsan
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For more information on the event, please visit http://spugmalaysia.org/iwcommunityday.aspx

Applies to:  SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Nov 2009), Office Web Apps Beta (Nov 2009)

If you are like me, when you have installed SharePoint Server 2010, you would want to check out the new Office Web Applications and see how it works with SharePoint Server 2010. 

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The Office Web Applications consists 3 service applications which will be available after installation.  And once deployed, 3 additional site collection features will be added to the web application, if these service applications are associated with the web application.

The much awaited SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available now.  You can download the trial here:

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

And I am sure you are eager to install it right away :)  Well, this is only beta, so the installation will not be as straight forward as the released version.

Do check out the preliminary system requirements before you start the installation here

And also check out the following useful resources which will help you in your installation and the journey, and these articles have helped me a lot.

Useful Resources:

Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta (Jie Li)

Grant “Replicating Directory Changes” (KB303972)

User Profile Sync Setup in SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Jie Li)

Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team Blog)