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With the official launch of SharePoint 2010 last week, we thought now would be a perfect time for us to share some resources to help you to get started evaluating and learning about the new release.  This post contains links to download evaluation software, guides, demo virtual machines and lots more, for both Developers and IT Professionals. 1. Check out the Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Launch  Keynote and on-demand sessions , and the  SharePoint 2010 Product Site  on Microsoft.com 2. Download the  SharePoint 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide , the  SharePoint 2010 Professional Developer Evaluation Guide  and the  SharePoint 2010 IT Professionals Evaluation Guide  to quickly ramp up on platform updates and additions. 3. Check out the learning plans for  IT Professionals ,  Developers  and  End Users  and get started on your SharePoint 2010 learning plan. 4. Download the pre-configured Hyper-V  SharePoint 2010 Evaluation and Demo Virtual Machine (~1.8GB) along with the  SharePoint

One of my customer send me a lot of data in excel 2010 and wanted me to upload it onto a sharepoint list and it wasn't that bad to do that. I refered this post and it made my life easier.

If you get this message, The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: - A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not installed. - Your Web browser does not support ActiveX controls. - A component is not properly configured for 32-bit or 64-bit support. when you try to open the Sharepoint 2010 List in the DataSheet view, do the following : install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components after you install Office 2010 64-bit on the machine. Hope this helps

My earlier post of installing Sharepoint 2010 is for the Beta 2 release. We got the release version last month. A trial download which is valid for 180 days is published on May 12th. A link for that is here . Don't forget to install the  WCF fix for R2 and Win7 is  here  prior to installing sharepoint . Release version is so smooth and I had everything done without any error. I configured the search and created a new user profile synchronization connection to import all the users from AD. It went so smooth and took me couple of hours today-sunday :(  to complete the entire installation. Am excited with the release version. They fixed a lot of issues (including the crazy user profile import issue) Good Luck

I find this link as the best resource for installing Sharepoint 2010 Beta on Win Server 2003. http://mosshowto.blogspot.com/2009/11/installing-sharepoint-2010-windows-2008.html I followed everything as it is but I encountered this error : "An error has occurred while validating the configuration settings.  An exception of type System.ArgumentNullException was thrown.  Additional exception information: The errorData argument cannot be null or zero length.  Parameter name: errorData" I browsed the net for nearly 4-5 hours to see different solutions but eneded up here. http://linium.us/ism/microsoft-solutions/sharepoint-2010-beta-here-we-go/ It didn't solve the problem yet until  I turned-off the firewall. I thought it's something to do with the Sql Server Firewall, but it's both the firewall's (Sharepoint + Sql) that has to be turned-off.   My prev post defines the Issues encountered in Sharepoint 2010 Beta installed on Win 7