TechEd is Microsoft's premier technology conference for IT professionals and developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft's current and soon-to-be- released suite of products, solutions, tools, and services. This June we celebrate the 20th annual TechEd North America...

Early-bird registration has opened for SharePoint Conference in November 12-15, 2012 in Las Vegas, NV. Register before June 29 for early-bird registration rate. Save $400(US). Register now to give yourself a competitive edge and get the inside scoop about what is coming next while learning how to...

A virtual machine for you to try out the new Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM is now available. It includes hands-on-labs / demo scripts. Brian Keller explains in his post Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts that you can use the virtual machine...

A new architect certification program, Microsoft Certified Architects (MCA) for SharePoint , was announced by Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President Office Business Platform, at the SharePoint Conference. He said those who become certified architects “will have a level of depth and training and...

Microsoft plans to expand the business critical services delivered by Office 365 and Azure and make moving to the cloud even easier for customers. By the end of the year, the first round of service updates to SharePoint Online since Office 365 launched will be complete and will enable customers to use...

Seats at SharePoint Conference 2011 are going fast. The conference is October 3 – 6 in Anaheim, CA. With less than three weeks until SharePoint Conference 2011, you still have time to register for one of the last seats at the biggest and most comprehensive SharePoint 2010 event in the world...

Only 5 Weeks Left Until SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA October 3 – 6. Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 is the biggest and most comprehensive event dedicated to Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SPC11 will provide you with the training, insights and networking you need to successfully...

The developer training kit that show you how to combine the power of both SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure has been updated. SharePoint 2010 provides many ways to integrate with Windows Azure. From simple SQL Azure data-centric applications to complex workflow that leverages custom Azure services...

SharePoint Conference 2011 is your only opportunity this year to see over 200 sessions focused on SharePoint 2010 and related technologies both in the cloud and on-premises. All current session content including abstracts and speakers have been posted to www.mssharepointconference.com . The conference...

To coincide with the launch activities of Office 365 earlier this week, an updated Office 365 Training Course has been released for developers building solutions for the cloud for Office 365. The kit includes 8 sessions, over 12 hours of video and 19 labs as both an offline training kit as well as an...

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) provides the latest updates for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 and is now available. SP1 contains all Cumulative Updates and Public Updates for 2010 that have already shipped . SP1 also contains new fixes for areas of each product. And there are some new...

Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365 , the company’s newest cloud service. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it brings together Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud...

Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will contain updates that improve stability, performance and security. SP1 will consist of minor updates, including all public updates through June 2011 and all cumulative updates through April 2011, in addition to some previously unreleased fixes...

SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Customer Technology Preview (CTP) is now available for download. SQL Server 2008 R2 service packs are cumulative updates and upgrade all service levels of SQL Server 2008 R2 to SP1 CTP. Get the updates from: Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service...

Microsoft Office 365 makes its public beta debut in 17 countries and 38 geographies worldwide. The new cloud service brings together Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync for organizations of all sizes. Microsoft Office 365 lets you and your customers work from virtually anywhere and on almost any device...

Microsoft has made available a guide for developers for your SharePoint Online development. This guide walks you through some of the rich features in SharePoint Online that are available to developers and designers. It provides an overview of the feature set and extensibility points for SharePoint...

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is due mid-summer. Announcements of specific features will be made on team blogs according to the post Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is Almost Here . Specific blogs include: http://blogs.office.com (and related product team blogs) ...

Registration for SharePoint Conference 2011 is now open. The conference will be in Anaheim, CA October 3-6. It will be the only conference to hear experts from Microsoft and around the world share their experience and knowledge about a variety topics such as cloud services, best practices & real...

The new System Center 2012 , announced at Microsoft Management Summit , will enable your IT managers and your customers’ IT Managers build private clouds with the infrastructure they know and own today — including other vendors’ platforms and virtualization technologies. ISVs are...

vorApps for SharePoint Online delivers an email enabled information management solution leveraging the power of Microsoft SharePoint Online . Diane Gallagher of Vorsite Corp talks to Greg Oliver, ISV Architect Evangelist, about how vorApps was built on Windows Azure and how Office 365 customers can...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download to MSDN subscribers -- general availability on December 9. Jason Zander, General Manager of the Visual Studio Team, announced the update on his blog Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta . You’ll find the download links...

My colleague Mithun Dhar has put together a blog post about how to setup your SharePoint developer environment on a Windows 7 computer. One of the biggest advantages of SharePoint 2010 is that you can run it on Windows 7. In his blog post, SharePoint 2010–Everything you need to know , he walks...

New integration between Quark Publishing System with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 supports knowledge workers and creative departments what want to collaborate within one system to create, edit, revise, and publish brand-compliant, cross-media marketing communications. A new Channel 9 video describes the...

The SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit is ideal for developers who want to understand how to take advantage of the key improvements introduced in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in their applications, as well as for developers who are new to SQL Server. The training kit offers...

Over on the SharePoint team blog they just announced that the next SharePoint Conference will be held October 3-6, 2011 in Anaheim, CA. Here’s the complete details from their post: Save the Date for SharePoint Conference 2011, the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related...