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How To Setup SharePoint 2010 Public Beta User Profile Synchronization with Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 R2

BobGerman — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:35:00 GMT

by Ron Bokleman, Boston MTC

This document is designed to help someone new to SharePoint 2010 Beta setup and test SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization on Windows Server 2008 R2. The official information on the TechNet site (link) and the SharePoint team blog (link) were used to develop this guidance.

The lab environment is based upon two Hyper-V servers (affords you the ability to take snapshots along the way and roll back if necessary), a Domain Controller (contoso.com) and a member server to host SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint 2010 Pubic Beta software. On both servers, the Windows Firewall and IE ESC were set to off and the servers were given access to the Internet in order to download updates and software required by the SharePoint 2010 Pre-requisite installer. Please keep in mind that your domain and machine names will vary and you should substitute accordingly.

If there are any updates or feedback, then please add them to the comments.

Lab Environment

Here are the machine names and network settings used; please substitute your own as needed.

Domain Controller

Hostname: DC
Memory: 1GB
IP Settings, Virtual Network #1: 172.16.1.100 / 255.240.0.0, DNS 127.0.0.1
IP Settings, Virtual Network #2: DHCP
Operating System: Windows Server 2008 R2 + All critical updates from Windows Update
Server Role(s): Active Directory Domain Services, DNS
Forest Root Domain: contoso.com
Forest Functional Level: Windows Server 2008 R2
Hyper-V Configuration: Single CPU, 127GB Disk,
Virtual Network #1 Private, Virtual Network #2 Internet

Member Server

Hostname: Sharepoint
Memory: 4096MB
IP Settings, Virtual Network #1: 172.16.1.101/255.240.0.0, DNS 172.16.1.100
IP Settings, Virtual Network #2: DHCP
Operating System: Windows Server 2008 R2 + all critical updates from Windows Update
+ WCF hotfix
Server Software: SQL Server 2008 SP1 + CumU

Hyper-V Configuration:

Two CPU's, 127GB Disk, Virtual Network #1 Private, Virtual Network #2 Internet

Configuration Steps

Create a SharePoint farm admin account named ‘spadmin'.

a. Use Active Directory Users and Groups to create contoso\spadmin the account name should be ‘SharePoint Admin'.

b. Setup a Contoso OU and add user accounts into the OU as required for your own testing.

3. Run Delegation Control wizard to add contoso\spadmin account to "Replication Directory Changes" permissions.

a. Right click domain and click "Delegate Control..."

b. Click Next.

c. Add contoso\spadmin and click Next.

d. Select "Create a custom task to delegate" and then click Next.

e. Click Next.

f. Check the "Replicating Directory Changes" in the Permissions window and then click Next.

g. Click Finish to complete the Delegation of Control Wizard.

4. Add the contoso\spadmin account as a local machine administrator to the SharePoint WFE (sharepoint).

5. Login to sharepoint.contoso.com as contoso\spadmin to install software.

[NOTE: This is critical! You MUST do this or likely your ‘Forefront Identity Manager Service' (although set to Automatic) will fail to start automatically after starting the SharePoint ‘User Profile Synchronization Service' successfully.]

6. Run Windows Update to install all critical updates.

7. Install SQL Server 2008 SP1 + CU2.

a. Full install with default instance.
b. Used contoso\spadmin as the service account for all services.

[NOTE: If you already have SQL Server 2008 SP1 installed under another identity, simply add the contoso\spadmin login to SQL Server Logins, and then grant that account SysAdmin role on the server and continue with SP1 + CU2.]

c. Installed report server but do not configure.

d. Install CU2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315 .

8. Restart.

9. Install WCF hotfix (KB976462)for Windows Server 2008 R2: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=166231

10. Restart.

11. Check that server can access internet websites like http://www.bing.com/.

12. Install ‘en_sharepoint_server_2010_beta_x64_x16-19249.exe' from MSDN, the Public Beta using the product key provided.

13. Click Install software prerequisites.

14. Click Next.

15. Accept terms and click Next.

16. When the preparation tool completes, click Finish. If not, then please look at the log file and correct internet access problem or manually download and install packages.

[NOTE: You can run prerequisite tool more than once.]

17. Click Install SharePoint Server.

18. Enter your product key (from MSDN) and press Continue.

19. Accept terms and click Continue.

20. Click Server Farm.

21. Select Complete and then click Install Now.

22. After installation completes, click Close to run the SharePoint Products and leave the checkbox checked to run Technologies Configuration Wizard.

[NOTE: If you want to test the Office Web Applications, then uncheck running the wizard, click close and install the Office Web Applications installer en_office_web_applications_beta_x64_456141.exe from MSDN obtaining your product key. Then run the configuration wizard after the Office Web Applications install. The Wizard can be run more than once and you can always add the OWA installation later if desired.]

23. Click Next to start the configuration wizard.

24. Click Yes.

25. Select Create a new server farm and click Next.

26. Enter the database server, username and password. Click Next.

27. Enter your passphrase and then click Next.

28. Click Next.

29. Apply your configuration settings by clicking Next.

30. After configuration completes, click Finish.

31. Central administration will start in a browser and then click Ok.

32. Click Next.

33. Select contoso\spadmin for the Service Account and then click Next.

34. Enter a Title and then click Ok to create a site collection.

35. Farm configuration wizard completes and then click Finish.

Setting up User Profile Synchronization with Active Directory

1. On the Central Administration page, click Manage Service Applications.

2. Highlight the User Profile Service Application by clicking the empty white-space to the right of the application title. Click Manage. Then, click Administrators. Give the farm admin account ‘SharePoint Admin' Full Control and then click Ok. [Optional: Repeat for all service applications.]

[NOTE: Type the account name ‘SharePoint Admin' and click the check name command button, don't use ‘contoso\spadmin'.]

3. Manage User Profile Service Application (by clicking the title or highlighting it and then click Manage).

4. Check that statistics appear on the far right column on the User Profile Service Application page.

5. Go back to Central Administration home page by clicking Central Administration.

6. Click ‘Manage services on server'.

7. Click start on ‘Microsoft SharePoint Foundation User Code Service'. (Sandbox Solutions)

8. Click Start on ‘User Profile Synchronization Service'.

9. Click Ok to select the User Profile Application.

10. It will take several minutes for the User Profile Synchronization Service to change from Starting to Started.

11. When the service is started (in my lab environment took 7-8 minutes), you can refresh the services page and eventually you'll notice that the ‘User Profile Synchronization Service' status will be Started. Plus, you can start services.msc to see that the Forefront Identity Manager services are configured and started.
View of services page:

View of services.msc:

12. Click Central Administration.

13. Click Manage service applications.

14. Click User Profile Service Application.

15. Click Configure Synchronization Connections.

16. Refresh browser or return to User Profile Service Application, click Configure Synchronization Connections and then click Create New Connection.

17. Enter your Active Directory information and then click Populate Container.

18. Select OU containing your test users (Contoso) and then click Ok.

19. Your Active Directory connection will be listed.

[NOTE: If not, you didn't install the SharePoint 2010 software logged on as the contoso\spadmin account. Go back and try again. You did take snapshots, right?]

[NOTE: You'll notice that once the Connection has been created, that you can't ‘Edit' the connection due to a scripting error on the page. This is a known issue. To work around this, hit F12, then in the debugger choose IE 7 mode, then click ‘Edit' again. You'll be able to edit the connection.]

20. Navigate back to Manage Profile Service: User Profile Service Application page.

21. Click Start a Profile Synchronization, select Start a Full Synchronization and then click Ok.

22. Depending upon how many objects you are syncing, it may take a long time. With only 10 users, the user profile sync only took a few minutes. Refreshing the page shows that 10 User Profiles were imported.

23. On the Manage User Profiles page, I can successfully search for "test" and the query returns all the test users.

Yes it works!

You'll now want to start the SharePoint Foundation Search service and configure it along with installing the Office Web Applications if you already haven't done so.

D&D on Microsoft Surface …

kkaragan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:28:31 GMT

SurfaceScapes is a proof-of-concept platform being developed by students at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) for playing tabletop role-playing games. Heir prototype was developed around playing D&D. Watch the video and notice how well tuned the user experience is to the tabletop format and to the gameplay. Players can use the elements of the physical game they love while leveraging technology to change the more labor intensive aspects (like creating the environments using paper and pencil). Gameplay also takes on a more visual role as actions are played out on the tabletop interactively. Well done!

Via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/29/dd-on-multi-touch-ta.html

SurfaceScapes: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/surfacescapes/index.html

Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

Announcing PowerPivot for Excel 2010 (fka Project Gemini)

Dean Suzuki — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:26:48 GMT

Introducing PowerPivot for Excel 2010

PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love—Microsoft Excel. Leveraging familiar Excel features, users can transform enormous quantities of data from virtually any source with incredible speed into meaningful information to get the answers they need in seconds.

Using SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010 (delivered thru SQL Server 2008 R2 in SharePoint 2010), end users can effortlessly and securely share their finding with others and work seamlessly in the browser with the same performance and features as the Excel client. PowerPivot for SharePoint even helps IT departments improve their operational efficiencies through SharePoint-based management tool called PowerPivot Management Dashboard. IT administrators can track usage patterns over time, drill down to obtain more details, discover mission-critical solutions, and ensure performance by making sure users have the appropriate resources.

Learn more about PowerPiviot for Excel 2010 by clicking here

If you are a IT Pro or Administrator of BI learn more by clicking here

Cross posted from the Irvine MTC Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcirv

Operating System Deployment in the Irvine MTC in 26.5 minutes using ZTI

Dean Suzuki — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:12:08 GMT

With the number of requests for Windows7 and Server2008R2 going through the roof by the end of July, I had to make sure we could automate the deployment of both ASAP when I returned from vacation. The System Center Configuration Manager SP2 Beta and now RC was very welcomed as well as the latest version of the Microsoft Deployment toolkit 2010.

Apart from the minor issue with Hash Values that I’ve been getting with deployments when the SCCM server and the Distribution Point get out of sync, I can now reimage in both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows7 in roughly 26.5 minutes :-)

Cross posted from the Irvine MTC Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcirv

TechNet: 77 Windows 7 Tips

kkaragan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:01:44 GMT

On TechNet, Keith Ward has posted 77 Windows 7 Tips.

A few cool ones that are new to me:

Shift to and from Explorer and CommandPrompt. The classic Windows power toy Open Command Prompt Here is now an integral part of Windows 7 Explorer. Hold down the shift key then right-click a folder to add this option to the property menu. While you're in a command prompt, if you want to open an Explorer window with the focus of the window on the current directory, enter start.
RoboCopyCopyCopy. The always-useful Robocopy.exe can now run multi-threaded; run Robocopy /? to review its new parameters (like /MT for multithreading) and make your copies go faster
Drag-and-Drop Notification Icons. The redesigned notification area displays only a minimum number of icons; all other notification icons are moved to a side window. Rather than using the Customize option to select icons for the main display, you can drag-and-drop icons from the side window to the notification area.
Trigger Actions. Event Viewer is closely tied into Task Scheduler. You have the ability to take an event (select it in Event Viewer) and then from the Actions pane, select the option "Attach a Task" to have that event, when it appears, trigger an action. That action can be: launch a program; send an e-mail; or display a message. This feature may be very helpful in troubleshooting a problem.

Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

NewsGator Releases Social Sites 3.0

kkaragan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:56:45 GMT

NewsGator's Social Sites 3.0 was released on September 29^th, this release includes:

From their Press Release:

Microblogging
Microblogging expands social computing's role as the new operating system for business – a system that supplants email, folders and siloed applications enabling the default enterprise architecture for the way people really work. Nonetheless, Twitter, the wildly popular consumer microblogging service, is probably the wrong approach for the enterprise.
Socialpedia
A self-assembling, Wikipedia-style knowledge base pulls from wikis across SharePoint. Socialpedia enhances Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007's wiki experience, with AJAX editing, tagging, rating, automated table of contents creation, custom wiki tags, and more, creating a single knowledge repository with distributed ownership.
Knowledge Explorer
Visualize internal experts clustered around concepts with this graphical expertise map. When users click on a topic in a tag cloud, the map appears with experts arranged according to their automatically calculated expertise ratings. Knowledge Explorer takes advantage of the rich media features in Microsoft Silverlight, the software for rich web experiences

"Social Sites 3.0 extends the capabilities of the Office SharePoint Server content management and collaboration platform … by providing a Facebook-like social computing experience."

Find out more ….

NewsGator is a Microsoft Technology Center Alliance Program member.

Web Application Toolkits Available

kkaragan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:39:52 GMT

Seven Web Application Toolkits are available for download at the MSDN Code Gallery. These toolkits are aim to provide web developers with resources (such as project templates, controls, code samples, and documentation) in a consistent packaged format that can be consumed and put to use in a very short time so that they can evaluate the technology and determine if it's the right solution for their problem. An introduction to the toolkits is available on Channel 9, and the kits are available for download HERE.

The current kits are:

Web Application Toolkit for Internet Explorer 8 Extensibility [screencast]
Today users can access rich information and services while they are browsing a site; it's not a trivial task to expose this content to the same users when they are not on that site. The goal of this Web Application Toolkit is to leverage the new features in Internet Explorer 8 (Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search Providers) to extend the reach of your web site and services also to those users that are not on your site. The Web Application Toolkit includes a set of ASP.NET Web Controls that you can use to take advantage of these IE new features in your own Web application.
Web Application Toolkit for Bing Search
Bing is a powerful new Decision Engine designed to help consumers accomplish tasks and make faster, more informed decisions. The Bing Application Programming Interface (API) provides developers programmatic access to Bing, offering flexible options for building or enhancing your site or applications. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to take advantage of the Bing API to add search capabilities to your Web site by leveraging the various search results that the Bing API provides, including Web content, images, news and videos, among others. Through this Web Application Toolkit you will also discover how to use ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to provide an enhanced and more interactive end user experience when using the Bing API.
Web Application Toolkit for REST Services [screencast]
Many Web applications today are starting to expose data as REST service interfaces, so it can be accessed through APIs by other tiers of the application or even by other applications. A RESTful web service is a simple Web service implemented using HTTP and the principles of REST. REST Services focus on resources; each one is represented by a unique URI, and users interact with them via their URI using the HTTP uniform interface. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to easily add REST service interfaces for an existing Web application. The Web Application Toolkit includes a sample REST service, two sample client applications that access the REST services, one using simple ASP.NET Web Forms and a second Web application using AJAX to asynchronously invoke the REST service and finally a custom project template for Visual Studio to make it very easy to build new REST Services.
Web Application Toolkit for Mobile Web Applications [screencast]
This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to extend an existing ASP.NET MVC Web application to provide access from mobile devices. To enable mobile access, the Web application should have views targeting each of the mobile devices to be supported. The MVC pattern helps you create applications that separate the different aspects of the application (input logic, business logic, and UI logic), while providing a loose coupling between these elements. This Web Application Toolkit provides a component called MobileCapableViewEngine that enables the Web application to show the appropriate view depending on the device's browser that is performing the request. It also includes a sample site that provides different views for Windows Mobile, IPhone, and Blackberry devices.
Web Application Toolkit for Template-Driven Email [screencast]
This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to generate and send dynamic, template-based emails from a web application. There are many common scenarios where notification emails need to be sent to end users. Examples of these common scenarios may involve notifying a user of their newly created account, sending a new password in respond to a forgotten password request, or emailing an alert under specific business circumstances, such as the creation of a order. Typically the E-mails sent from a Web application scenario are formatted as HTML, include CSS stylesheets, and images and need to be generated dynamically with custom or user-specific data. This Web Application Toolkit includes samples that show how to use templates to generate these dynamic email bodies.
Web Application Toolkit for making Your Web Site Social [screencast]
Adding social capabilities to your Web site allows you to attract new users, keep them on your Web site for longer and get them to come back more often. This Web Application Toolkit shows how, using a few lines of code with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, it is possible to add social capabilities to a Web site with instant messaging from a website to various client endpoints like Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox 360 and Mac. Behind the scenes is a powerful set of UI Controls and a JavaScript library that connect your website to the Messenger Service which is used by 330 million users around the world.
Web Application Toolkit for FAQs [screencast]
The majority of web sites have the need to display a list of frequently asked questions to their users. Although it's not difficult to create a simple set of FAQ pages, creating a great user experience that supports searching for FAQs, filtering, and paging, can become more difficult. Furthermore, this is often common functionality that has to be implemented repeatedly in multiple Web sites. This Web Application Toolkit is designed to provide a starting set of code including ASP.NET pages, data access logic, and database schemas, for integrating Frequently Asked Questions into your own ASP.NET MVC Web application.

These samples are designed to up and running in no time (seriously!), you can use these with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Give them a try … and if you're a professional web developer, designer, or startup, check out Microsoft WebSpark for opportunities to get visibility, support, and software at no upfront costs!

Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

MTC Related Posts Around the Web - September 25, 2009

kkaragan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:20:35 GMT

Application Lifecycle Management Roundtable at Reston MTC 10/28/2009 – Dr. Z's Blog
"… Microsoft and CEI are pleased to invite you to join us for a lunch event where we will discuss how you can gain cost savings and efficiency with Microsoft's ALM (application lifecycle management) strategy and toolset of Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. We expect to hear the challenges you are facing as well as any innovative solutions you might have implemented …"
A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM – Mike Ormond's Blog
"I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in the Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) with a company called dezineforce who offer a unique capability – a cloud-based engineering design service. Coming from an engineering background myself, I found both the problem domain and their application fascinating. It's all about helping engineers build better components more quickly (where "better" might be stronger, lighter, less material, cheaper material etc)…"

Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, September 25, 2009

kkaragan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:56:00 GMT

Ed Hild - Reston
- Resolved error setting up IRM for SharePoint 2007
  
  "Was working on a proof of concept today and ran across an interesting error when trying to get the MOSS server to talk to RMS. Since this is just in a lab, the MOSS central administration web app pool was running as Network Service. When I chose to specify the RMS server, the error was that it was found, but that the local machine account did not have access. Turns out, you need to set a few permissions on one of the asmx web service files…"

New Office Communicator, OCS Server, and LiveMeeting Patches

Dean Suzuki — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:39:00 GMT

Hi,

I was experiencing a couple issues in our OCS R2 environment. These issues were:

When one OCS Enterprise Eoice (EV) user called another OCS user and that user re-directed the call to Voice Mail, the call got re-directed back to the caller. This action only happened when I re-directed using Office Communicator. When I re-directed the call on my Tanjay to voicemail, the call went correctly to the recipient voicemail. We also tested calling another user's voicemail directly from Communicator and that option worked. So, it appeared that when a user re-directs an incoming call using Office Communicator, then OC was re-directing the call back to the sender's SIP address.
The second issue that I experience occured when I selected Change Greeting from Office Communicator, an error message was thrown. I could call my voice mail fine from Office Communicator.
My environment is running OCS R2 and Office Communicator V3.5.6907.0

I noticed that a new Office Communicator patch was released in July 2009. It can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=515D6DBA-4C6A-48BB-A06A-D99C5742676D&displaylang=en.

After downloading and installing the patch, both of the above issues were resolved!!

Along with this patch, patches for Live Meeting and the OCS server were also released:

Live Meeting Patch: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969696/
OCS Server Patch: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969821/

So, if you're encountering some weird Office Communicator behavior and it looks like your configuration looks good, download the patches to see if they resolve the issue.

Cross posted from the Irvine MTC Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcirv

Slides from Jason Beres Silverlight talk

kkaragan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:16:00 GMT

Jason Beres has posted his slides from a talk he gave at the NY MYC: http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/jason_beres/archive/2009/09/16/silverlight-slides-and-code.aspx Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

Thrive Community offers new Technical Skills as Well as Career Skills

kkaragan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:49:37 GMT

Microsoft's new Thrive Community offers a place to learn new skills, look for new job opportunities, and connect with your peers. The web development track of the site has comprehensive list of resources in some of the newest and hottest Microsoft technologies. The Community area has a selected set of blogs, podcasts, and a user group finder. The Job finder uses SimplyHired to find available positions in your area.

"Introducing Thrive for Developers - We've heard from lots of developers that times are tough. You're doing more with less, applying your skills more broadly, and maybe even learning new tools. That's why we created Thrive – a one-stop community hub that offers job postings, technical content, and community resources. So whether you're seeking new ways to differentiate yourself on the job, or you need to re-tool your skills for that next big role, Thrive has the resources to help you get there faster …"

Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

ASP.Net MVC Firestarter Event in NYC Oct. 3, 2009

kkaragan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:49 GMT

From the site:

In March 2009, Microsoft added a new option for developing web applications on the .NET platform: the ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0. You've probably heard quite a bit of buzz in the Microsoft web development community about it. But perhaps you haven't had a chance to take a deeper look at it yet. Then we have an event for you! We will be hosting a full-day ASP.NET MVC Firestarter event live from New York and online to take you from 0-300 level in a day.

At the ASP.NET MVC Firestarter, we'll give you a quick tour of the framework, then peel back the layers and dive deeper into how it works. As part of that, we'll spend time discussing the design and development practices that lead to the creation of the MVC framework. By the time you leave, you'll have enough knowledge to get fired up and start building web applications on the .NET platform.

Seating for the live event is limited, so register today. If you can't join us for the in-person event, register for the online event experience.

Where: Grand Hyatt New York Hotel/ Ballroom B - 109 East 42nd Street, NY, NY 10017 [register] OR Live Webcast [register]

When: Oct. 3, 2009 – 8:30 AM – 5:15 PM (That's a Saturday)

Price: FREE

Other events in the series will be:

Seattle, 9/17/2009 – Silverlight (Developer Focused)
Seattle, 9/18/2009 – Windows 7 & Server R2 (IT Pro Focused)
Alpharetta, 10/17/2009 – Windows 7 (IT Pro Focused)

Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

MSR Doloto download available

kkaragan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:29:25 GMT

Doloto is a Microsoft Research project that has the goal of making Web 2.0 apps faster.

"The goal of the project is to make Web 2.0 applications run faster," Livshits says. "This is a whole new area, as far as software development and how to optimize these applications. The reason why people move to the Web 2.0 model of development is because code is running on the user's machine, which means responsiveness is increased. You don't have to go to the server every time you need something done. But as you move this code to the client to make the application more responsive, the application cannot run before all the code arrives at the client. To make the current generation of applications run faster, or to enable the next generation of these applications, you need to deal with this problem of code delivery. How do you do that? That's the question that Doloto tries toaddress." – Ben Livshits

"A consequence of Doloto … is that developers can now add a new feature into their Web applications without worrying about its effect on the application's download time.

Before, the usefulness of a new feature would be weighed against its performance impact. Very useful features would be cut because the added code made the application load too slowly. Now, with Doloto, developers can continue to build richer and richer Web-application experiences and be assured that the extra code will not be a burden for users starting the application." – Emre Kiciman

Find out more and give it a try …

Cross Posted from the NY MTC Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mtcny

Last Call: Incubation Week for Windows 7 at the Boston MTC, week of October 5, 2009

BobGerman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:57:00 GMT

Sanjay Jain is back and working on another incubation week to help ISV's tool up on the latest Microsoft technology. This time the focus is on Windows 7.

Do you have an application that could benefit from the cool new features in Windows 7, such as

Windows Touch, ink, gesture support, plus handwriting recognition enabling new input capabilities

Rich Animation Framework

Sensor and Location Framework (GPS, light, motion)

New taskbar, destinations, and shell integration enhancing discoverability and usability

New extensible Ribbon adding Office 2007-style controls, menus, and galleries to your application

Would you like to build a working proof of concept in our lab with our assistance?

If so, please submit a nomination for this incubation week! Details are on Sanjay's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/sanjayjain/archive/2009/09/15/last-call-for-microsoft-bizspark-incubation-week-for-windows-7-boston-during-week-of-5th-oct-2009.aspx.

Thanks, and hope to see you at the MTC!

Microsoft Technology Centers blog

How To Setup SharePoint 2010 Public Beta User Profile Synchronization with Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 R2

D&amp;D on Microsoft Surface …

Announcing PowerPivot for Excel 2010 (fka Project Gemini)

Operating System Deployment in the Irvine MTC in 26.5 minutes using ZTI

TechNet: 77 Windows 7 Tips

NewsGator Releases Social Sites 3.0

Web Application Toolkits Available

MTC Related Posts Around the Web - September 25, 2009

Recent Blog Posts by MTC Folks, September 25, 2009

New Office Communicator, OCS Server, and LiveMeeting Patches

Slides from Jason Beres Silverlight talk

Thrive Community offers new Technical Skills as Well as Career Skills

ASP.Net MVC Firestarter Event in NYC Oct. 3, 2009

MSR Doloto download available

Last Call: Incubation Week for Windows 7 at the Boston MTC, week of October 5, 2009

D&D on Microsoft Surface …