So in their wisdom it seems you can no longer do InfoPath development in Visual Studio with the new versions. Here's a little snippit from the infopath blog showing how to do Source Control with InfoPath 2010, code behind and TFS. Should be fun, just hope those files don't go out of sync...

 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2010/06/10/using-tfs-for-source-control-in-infopath-2010.aspx

 

Click here to find out the detailed feature breakdown for each of the Sharepoint 2010 editions (Foundation, Standard and Enterprise)

Well SharePoint Foundation has arrived, it's there on the download pages, which maybe explains why I couldn't find it on MSDN. The Search Server 2010 link is still the beta, but I'm sure that will update soon too.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595

Time to get it installed I suppose, ditch the beta VM, spin up a new VM and start installing. Just in time for a new starter as well, we'll let him loose on this and see how he gets on - it's here now so why use old technology for his induction?

 

A good little posting on SharePoint abbreviations from the beginning to 2010 by Todd Bleeker over on his blog...

 http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Todd/archive/2010/01/09/Abbreviating-SharePoint-Products-and-Technologies-2010.aspx

One of the major deficiencies in SharePoint 2007 was the difficulty involved in making sites comply with accessibility standards.

SharePoint 2010 has made significant improvements in this area including standards compliance, keyboard support, tab support, reduced use of tables etc.

There is a useful article on some of the specific improvements that can be found on http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/09/accessibility-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx

I'm sure there will be specific areas that still require some customisation to get to the level of support expected for accessibility standards but the amount of work to acheive this will be significantly reduced!

I have been some trusty Windows Server 2003 VMs from Virtual Server 2005 across to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V this week and without fail each of them has given me the boot message "At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use Event Viewer to examine the event log for details."

 

Now I expect this when network adaptors have yet to find their drivers as all sorts of things fall over, but even once the devices were all happy and working the prompt persisted - checking the event logs showed that the Parallel port driver service failed to start - I didn't think you could get parallel ports on VMs! :)

Anyhow, thought I'll check the services MMC and disable it - but it was not to be found there. A quick search later revealed some posts suggesting I tweak registry values to stop the service ; but I don't like doing that sort of thing, especially when this one is a DC. So fiddled around with command line options for services and found that the answer is one line in a dos prompt thus:

 sc config parport start= disabled

Simple, by the third VM I managed to remember it without looking at the help!

 

Some may know that Windows 7 comes with a variant marked 'N'  (media player unbundled). Aside from the unbundling, as far as I know, the oporating system is the same in every other way

BUT.....

SharePoint 2010 does not install on Windows 7 <version> N. So even if you install Windows 7 Enterprise N (as I did today) you cannot install SharePoint 2010. As far as I know, there are no work arounds & the issue will be addressed in the RTM

Until then, if you want to run SharePoint 2010, make sure that not only do you install the appropriate version of Windows 7 (e.g. Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise) but do not install the N variant

I came across an interesting post from Mark Arend today whichi nicely lists out all the Moss Timer Jobs with a description of what they do along with some assembly info, catch it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2008/09/06/list-of-moss-timer-jobs.aspx

It was posted a while ago. But hey this way I'll find it again easily.

IainW

Well I happened upon wssdemo.com today, not been there in a while and saw that Ian Morrish has upgraded to SharePoint Foundation. It's nice to see how it looks, and be interesting to see how Ian develops it from here. http://www.wssdemo.com/default.aspx

Overall, an enjoyable conference.

On the plus side, some great presentations on the new platform showing a taster of what we can look forward to. Met some new people and of Vegas is a buzzing city.

For me, the downsides were the number of people (7500) and the audio in some rooms was very echoy making it difficult to hear  (especially if the presenter is talking quickly) I'm not sure about whooping and clapping over new features or improvements......

Overall, Microsoft did a good job on the content and logistics.

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