SDPS-SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Deep Dive with Jon Quist - Live meeting

Today I joined a live meeting presented by Jon Quist, Technical Lead for SDPS about (SharePoint 2010 Upgrade "Deep Dive") , the meeting was targeting any partner who wants to prepare early for leveraging SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) to upgrade their customers from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

Also Deb Bannon, Senior Product Manager & John Devaney, ContentMaster were part of the meeting and they describe more about benefits of SharePoint 2010.

The session took partners on a Deep Dive into the NEW SDPS 2010 Upgrade Planning Service, the latest offering from SharePoint Deployment Planning Services. Partners will learn how to navigate the SDPS partner site for the latest in upgrade best practices, tools, and methodology; and how to leverage the virtual machines for the offering. In addition, Jon dived into the deliverables for the Strategy Briefing Session, ADS session, and suggested POC activities.

It was helpful meeting and you can download the presentation from here

SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs

Brief Description
The SharePoint 2010 developer evaluation guide describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers.

Overview
This evaluation guide is designed to give you an overview of the feature set and extensibility points for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and an understanding of how the professional developer can use these features and extensibility points to create comprehensive solutions. This guide begins with an overview of the types of solutions that you can build by developing on SharePoint. It then addresses the developer tools for SharePoint 2010, the new platform features, and the solution deployment enhancements. The guide concludes with six walkthroughs that show example developer customizations in SharePoint 2010. The goal of this guide is to provide a framework for an effective evaluation of SharePoint 2010 as a solution creation platform. This guide is intended for the professional developer, development lead, and software architect. An evaluation guide focused on the SharePoint 2010 product and an evaluation guide for the IT Professional are also available.

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