Don’t want to spend time downloading the installation package, installing it, configuring it etc. Well here’s the solution, you can download a virtual harddisk image and you don’t have to go through the above described hassle. Easy, just download it and import it in Virtual PC 2007
You can download the image here: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (November 2007) VHD
Today Microsoft published a training package for SharePoint 2007 on their download site. All together it’s about 145MB.
Official info from download site:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers a rich set of features to help you manage workflow, maintain document version control, connect to business intelligence applications, track key performance indicators for your business, add blogs and wikis to improve knowledge transfer and enhance collaboration, and more.
The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training Standalone Edition is designed to help you learn how to use the features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The Training topics lead you step-by-step through beginning to advanced features, including Collaboration, Business Processes and Forms, Portals and Personalization, Search, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management.
The Training includes videos, interactive tutorials, and articles. The Standalone Edition is accessed through your browser after you install the application on your personal computer.
If you are a server administrator and want to install the Portal Edition to your Office SharePoint Server site, click here. The Portal Edition allows you to add content to help your users learn about the rich features of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Download the content here: SharePoint 2007 Training (Standalone Edition)
The non standalone Edition can be found here.
Dell decided to bring out a special edition of it’s XPS range. Aimed specially at the World of Warcraft players. Now, I’m not allowed to play WOW anymore (clean for 1,5 year now) but still I think it’s a very nice laptop.
Check it out here: Dell XPS World of Warcraft laptop
Microsoft is making a lot of effort to promote it’s home variant of Windows server, Windows Home Server, to the public. Which is a good thing because Windows Home Server is something really handy. I hope to test this server in the near future. Don’t have the money for a HP MediaSmart Server (bundled with Windows Home Server) so i’ll have to run it virtually for the time being. If anyone wants to sponsor me however, feel free to send me an email 
Back to the topic now. So Microsoft has published this site with funny video’s about Windows Home Server. They are funny but they do however give you a good idea what Windows Home Server’s capabilities are. Check it out here: www.stayathomeserver.com
In the previous post I talked about the VPC image that had about all the latest released of Microsoft and an awsome training kit to start programming in the new .NET 3.5 framework. Well if you are only interested in the training kit, you can grab it here.
The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.
If you are fairly new to Vista , Office 2007 Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite then this is your change to test drive it for 90 days. Everything comes in a complete Virtual PC image with everything included. When you download the VPC image you get the following:
- Windows Vista Business edition
- Office 2007 Enterprise
- Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite
On top of this you get a lot of training material. The training kit includes 20 hands-on-labs, 28 presentations, and 20 scripted demos for technologies such as LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET Ajax, VSTO, the .NET Compact Framework, and more. Isn’t that awesome !!
Be quick and download the image hereÂÂ
You see, this technology is moving like a train. Microsoft released this link to the public. It’s the Microsoft download centre in Silverlight. Still in beta though, but already looks very well done.
As you may have noticed, the last post I did was in English. So is this one..
Why am I suddenly posting topics in English ? Well here’s the answer. Because most of my post are very IT related, IT related people know Enlgish very well. I want to reach a bit more people then only the Belgium people. That’s why I am posting in English.
I am planning in the near future to start back with the video training. There will however be some video’s that are in Dutch. Probably the beginners video’s. The more advanced topics will be in English.
I was browsing the downloads on Microsoft.com and I came across this link. So what this basicly does.. It provides the functionality to save and open files from Office Live Workspace directly from your offline office package. Very handy.
You have to know however that Office Live workspace still hasn’t been realeased to the public. This plugin is currently only for the beta testers out there.
But once the Beta hits public, we can all enjoy this handy plugin.
