Cross post from Stefan Goßner ( The first cumulative update for SharePoint 2010 family has been released ) Yesterday the first cumulative update for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released as a delayed June 2010 CU. Unlike the WSS 3.0 and...

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, calling all Foursquare Mayors Next week, we will host the world’s first office mayor meetup for Foursquare users at Martin Place. The winning Mayors will score a copy of Office Home and Business 2010. Moreover, if the winners further...

Tomorrow night the various SharePoint user groups around Australia and New Zealand are coming together for a combined Launch Party for the newly released Office, SharePoint, Project, and Visio 2010 products.   I will be hosting the all up live...

The SharePoint and Office 2010 RTM virtual machines which contain the All Up SharePoint demo scenarios have been released.   You can download them from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9728417 .

What is The ShareCast?  There are lots of resources for SharePoint 2010 ranging from Blogs, Twitter feeds, Announcements, Technical papers, what The ShareCast is planning to provide is a bringing together of all of these resources into short videos...

Over night the team have released the SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM installers onto MSDN. If you have an MSDN subscription you will now be able to download them and start using them within you Development and Testing environments. Please...

Fantastic new, a short time ago, Microsoft officially released Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 to manufacturing! Important Dates and Product Availability Information! Recently and almost daily I have been asked about when the...

I am very excited about the new HTC HD2 Windows Phone that is launching in January.  It has a massive 4.3” capacitive touch screen and will be running Windows Phone 6.5.  It will also allow me to run Office Mobile 2010 Beta and the new SharePoint...

    I got an email from a colleague who looks after App-V and thought it could benefit anyone out there that was about to Beta test the new Office 2010 application while maintaining your existing applications. With the release of the Office...

Exciting news, overnight Microsoft released the Beta 2 components for SharePoint Server 2010 to MSDN.   If you have an MSDN subscription you can download them now http://www.msdn.com/ .   If you do not have a subscription, the Beta...

“In September 2008, Microsoft along with EMC and IBM announced the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS), a jointly developed specification designed to facilitate interoperability between Enterprise Content Management repositories from...

During the Keynote at TechEd we showed Federated Search Connectors for Windows 7 Windows Explorer.   I have been using this for searching the web using Bing!  I have just uploaded the Search Connector for Bing! to my Sample Code page. To...

Tech Ed Australia 2009 is on next week on the Gold Coast.  This year we have some exciting things planned which all start with every attendee receiving a free HP Mini 2140 Netbook – pre loaded with Windows 7 RTM, Office 2010 and a host of other goodies...

Have you registered to attend the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas coming up in October? SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first time Microsoft will publically share all of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer. There are almost 250 sessions planned...

Today the SharePoint team announced that SharePoint 2010 has reached the Technical Preview engineering milestone.   What is SharePoint 2010? SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you...

Joel Oleson (ex SharePoint product team) is coming to Australia in July.  He has organised two morning sessions with local SharePoint experts, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne.   I will be sitting in on Joel’s session in Melbourne and...

How cold is it at the moment....brrrr!  Luckily Tech Ed Australia 2009 will be on the Gold Coast this year bring on the sunshine baby.                                                          ...

The SharePoint product team has posted an article on an issue found after installing SharePoint Server 2007 SP2. We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our customers. Unfortunately, we...

Tech Ed North America 2009 kicked off today, where Microsoft extended its first invitations into the Office 2010 Technical Preview and demoed Office 2010 onstage at the first major event since PDC. Registrations began for the Office 2010 Technical Preview...

MS Learning is taking up to 80 per cent off the exam price for Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) who have not attained a new Microsoft Certification Credential since 1 July, 2007. Until 30 June, MCPs are eligible for a Microsoft Certification exam...

During a recent chat with Andy Neumann and Elaine van Bergen at OBS, they told me about a National SharePoint Survey that OBS, Nintex and i5 are sponsoring.  Below are the details of how to respond and enter the draw to win an Acer notebook computer...

Overnight the product team released SP2 for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007.  After installing this service pack, SharePoint customers can benefit from performance, stability and availability improvements. IE8 is also put into level 1 support. In addition,...

Microsoft’s immediate strategy around accessibility from a SharePoint platform perspective revolves around a joint venture with HiSoftware, a specialist accessibility partner. On Monday, March 9, 2009, HiSoftware announced the release of the Accessibility...

Canberra SharePoint User Group Wednesday 18th March 2009 at 17:30 – 19:30 – Microsoft Level 2, 44 Sydney Avenue, Barton InfoPath vs Lists The user group will discuss the pros and cons of both data entry methods supported natively by SharePoint and compare...