With Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010 deployment on the rise, it’s important to think about end user adoption and education. End user training is important to improve business processes and get value out of your software. As Dux often says when people blame the tool, “the tool isn’t the problem”. Project...

I’m enjoying vacation right now and thought I would take a few minutes to update you on some SharePoint End User Training content and information. In my current role, my focus is Microsoft Project, but I continue hearing from friends, MVPs, customers and partners in the SharePoint community so here are...

Microsoft Project Professional (Pro) 2010 has a lot of rich features that make it a great upgrade from previous versions. If you’re a Project 2007 or 2003 user or someone who has never used Project but uses SharePoint, Project 2010 has some great gems that I recommend trying out. I wanted to share...

As part of SharePoint 2010 launch, I had the opportunity to visit SharePoint customers and partners in Russia and Australia. It was great to be able to participate in events as well as have meaningful 1:1 conversations. There’s a lot of excitement with the SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 launch! Russia...

I met up with Martin Harwar, SharePoint MVP & Solution Architect at Point8020 , and he demoed ShowMe for SharePoint 2010 that delivers premium SharePoint 2010 End User training and video help. It provides consumable help & training when end users need it on many SharePoint topics that helps accelerate...

At the Australia SharePoint Conference, Sandboxed Solutions was a popular topic amongst many of the developers & IT Professionals. I thought I’d share my thoughts. Sandboxed Solution is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allows for safe extensibility in locked down hosted environments...

I’ve been on the road so I haven’t been able to blog recently. Needless to say, we’re super excited in Buildings 16 & 17 in Redmond that SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 have officially launched! I’m in Russia right now to meet customers, partners and the SharePoint Community...

SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 released to manufacturing today! It’s super exciting for me personally, along with everyone in buildings 16, 17 & 36 at Microsoft! Later this month, the bits will be available in various channels. By May 1st, all customers should be able to purchase through Volume...

I am a big fan of SharePoint Workspace. I’ve been using SharePoint Workspace for the last few weeks, and I can honestly say that my experience has been fantastic! I thought I’d write a short note to share my own experiences and how I’ve been using it to improve my own personal productivity. As background...

[Cross-posted @ http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx ] We officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010...

I wanted to quickly highlight some of the recent content we recently published: - You can download the SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine here . - Check out the What's New in SharePoint 2010 for Developers clinic ; a free 2-hour e-learning course - Check out the What's New in SharePoint 2010 for IT Pros...

I just did a SharePoint 2010 webcast and wanted to share the deck I presented. You can find it @ http://cid-ca582f2bc3ad1590.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Presentations/SharePoint%202010/sp2010.pptx I will update this post with a pointer to the recording when (if) it’s available.

I’m a big fan of SharePoint Online along with over one million other users out there. It’s a reliable, convenient service that allows companies to take advantage of SharePoint without having to host it themselves. It’s software-as-a-service at its best. SharePoint Online today, based on SharePoint...

I went to Bangalore, India, a couple weeks ago as part of the Microsoft team that hosted SharePoint 2010 Ignite Developer. I had an opportunity to meet 75+ sharp developers from various partner organizations like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Cognizant & Persistent just to name a few. As part of a...

(I'm trying to keep this list of resources current. I also frequently tweet when new content/resources are available. You can follow me @arpanshah ). SharePoint 2010 will be the biggest release of SharePoint ever. With the public beta out and the final release only months away (first half of 2010...

[updated] Take a look at this post for the latest SharePoint 2010 training resources.