Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft

For any people out there who know of students who will be entering the workforce soon, or really just people who may want some hints in the job hunt; Microsoft have released a free e-book that may help.

The link page is available here; http://www.microsoft.com/learning/student-career/en/us/career-e-book.aspx 

The book is filled with tips on training, certifications, career opportunities, and how to market yourself.  Tips for anyone interested in a career or job change in IT or generally tech.

Steve

My New Blog – BI Sharepoint

I have been integrating BI project with SharePoint and have found quite an increase in interest on the subject.  Rather than include SharePoint related articles in this blog, I have created another site to house those discussions.

If you are interested in SharePoint or using SharePoint as your presentation layer for your BI projects this site should appeal to you.

The web address is http://BISharePoint.com and I also have a twitter account,  @bisharepoint which I will use to pass along news and information.

Thanks for following,

Steve

Free Sharepoint 2010, office 2010 vm IW trial Demo VM

2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)

How to get your hands on the latest Microsoft Information Worker tool set demo could not be easier.  The links and downloads below will start a download manager which will allow you to stop and start the MEGA 20 GB download.  

What this provides is a great way to learn and test out the environment while using a 180 day trial version of the images.  These images require Hyper-V. 

Download the companion SharePoint 2010 Walkthrough Guide.

The source download is located here: Download details: 2010 IW Demo VM (RTM)

The Virtual Machines contained in this package are 180 day evaluations.  Additionally they will require activation, or re-arming, after a 10 day period after which they will shut down after 2 hours of continuous operation.  To "re-arm" the Virtual Machines use the shortcut provided under Start > All Programs > re-arm > Re-arm Windows (restart required).  This will reset the grace period for 10 days.  This can be done twice.  In order to activate Windows you must add a second network card to each VM in Hyper-V and connect it to the Internet.  Once connected you can activate Windows within the Virtual Machine and the VM will run for 180 days.

Contents

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
3. Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
4. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
5. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition
6. Microsoft Office Web Applications
7. Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
8. Microsoft Project Server 2010
9. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
10. Microsoft Visio 2010
11. Microsoft Project 2010
12. Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Virtual machine “b” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, joined to the “CONTOSO.COM” domain
2. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Active directory has been preconfigured over 200 “demo” users with metadata in an organizational structure. All of these user profiles have been imported and indexed for search within SharePoint Server 2010.
SharePoint Server 2010 has been configured in a “Complete” farm using the default SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. A default site has been created using the Team Site template at http://intranet.contoso.com/ and a FAST Search Center at http://intranet.contoso.com/search/.

As shipped virtual machine “a” requires image “b” for email. Running image "b" is optional. 

Download links available at :  Download details: 2010 IW Demo VM (RTM)

Let me know how you like the packages,  feel free to leave your comments below.

Steve,

Free Sharepoint 2010 video training

Hot of the presses, new video training for both the ITPRO and the Advanced Developer for SharePoint 2010.  Links are listed below to the sites and each individual training session.  You can select what you want to watch.   The sites also have additional training and demos.   Start Fresh!!!

Here is the Advanced Developer training (a.k.a. “Ignite”) on MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff420377.aspx

Presentations Available in the DEV track:

Developer Roadmap and Tools
Core Development
User Interfaces and Lists
Data Access in Technologies
Composite Solutions
Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Search
Business Intelligence
Communities
Development Life Cycle

The Advanced IT Pro training can be found on TechNet:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff420396.aspx

Presentations available
Core Architecture of SharePoint 2010
Security in SharePoint 2010
IT Pro Management in SharePoint 2010
Upgrading to SharePoint 2010
Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010
Content Management in SharePoint 2010
Composite Solutions in SharePoint 2010
Communities in SharePoint 2010
Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Online Overview

Let me know what you think, leave comments below.

Thanks….

Steve Young