Sunday, March 28, 2010

SharePoint 2010 exams

Exam 70-573:

TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

Exam 70-576:

PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

Hands On Lab: What’s New for IT Professionals in Microsoft SharePoint 2010

This Hands-on Lab provides students with the knowledge and skills to become familiar with what is new for IT professionals in SharePoint 2010.
HYG

Saturday, March 06, 2010

launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST.

Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST. The live keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers:

End user productivity across the PC, phone and browser
IT choice and flexibility
A platform for developers to build innovative solutions

Join the virtual launch event with Microsoft executives, product developers, partners and customers to:

Find out how peers and partners are already seeing benefits to their business by leveraging the next wave of productivity.
Submit your questions through live Q&A.
Participate via blogs, tweets, social media networks, commenting, and more.

SharePoint 2010 Configuration Error “Failed to register SharePoint services”

I was installing SharePoint 2010 on a new farm and after installation I started the configuration wizard and failed in step 5 , I got this error

Failed to register SharePoint services.

An exception of type System.TypeLoadException was thrown. Additional exception information: Could not load type 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchWebServiceManagerService' from assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71E9BCE111E9429C'.

What is the hell is that? I tried to search and found many people are talking in the same issue but no answer, finally I found the answer in few posts, the solution for this problem is very weird, you have to delete to key from windows registry to be able to complete the configuration, what is that? I did it and it works with me but honestly I don’t like this solution and wish not to find such error in the final product

So now what are these 2 keys?

1. Open the run and type regedit

2. Remove the following 2 keys

3. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\Services\Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchWebServiceManagerService]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\ServiceProxies\Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchWebServiceManagerServiceProxy]

4. Enjoy

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Best SharePoint Designs in USA - Top 20

As you probably expected, the majority of SharePoint sites featured on this showcase are based in USA (approx. 40 percent). This article covers the Top 20 Best Rated US SharePoint sites. This cream of the crop list of US SharePoint sites is updated automatically, based on your votes. So, if you discovered an interesting site not on the list, go ahead and vote for it; eventually it will make it to the top. Hopefully these beautiful sites will give you a bit of inspiration on what you want your SharePoint sites to look like.