Windows 7 Vs Windows Server 2008 for SharePoint Development

Microsoft made some great improvements with SharePoint 2010 and one of significant one is that now you can run SharePoint 2010 on client Operating Systems like Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Vista with SP2.
Now the question arises if one should use Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 for development? I would suggest Windows Server 2008 [...]

How to upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010?

Microsoft team has created some posters to help companies upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The posters covers planning, different approach, validation and deployment required for upgrade.

What is SharePoint? When to use it?

Microsoft SharePoint team has released an excellent video that explains in simple terms what SharePoint is, and why/how people use it.
If you’re dealing with people who are new to SharePoint and finding it hard to explain what it is, this video might be a savior. It also great to include in a client pitch [...]

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek

Today,  Microsoft announced that SharePoint 2010 has reached the technical preview engineering milestone and sneak peek videos are available on Microsoft official site. Microsoft didn’t shared the completely details about SharePoint 2010 at this point but promises to go much deeper & broader at the SharePoint Conference in October. With whatever initial information that is [...]

System requirements for SharePoint Server 2010

Today Microsoft announced the system requirements for upcoming SharePoint Server 2010. Here are some key points:

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.

SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.

SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

SharePoint Team also shared more information about [...]