Atalay Aktaş works on Microsoft Turkey Office as Business Productivity Solutions Specialist. He shares a presentation that contains general information about Sharepoint and Office 2010 product family. Presentation language is Turkish, includes 50 slide and totaly 14.8 MB on SkyDrive.

You can download it via this link

Consider the following scenario. You create a survey, and then you add a workflow to the survey in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Then, you connect to the survey and respond to it. Finally, you view the response that you submitted, and then you try to start a workflow from the response. To do this, you click the arrow next to the response, click Workflows, click the workflow that you added, type your user name in the Reviewers box, and then click Start. However, the workflow does not start. Instead, the status of the workflow appears as Failed to Start.

This issue occurs because starting a workflow from a survey response is not supported in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Although the Workflows option appears when you click the arrow next to a survey response, you cannot start a workflow from a survey response.

Based on customer requests for more robust compliance features, Microsoft has improved the validation capabilities of lists and libraries. Validation is now supported at both list and item levels.

For instance, a list owner can configure a validation to disallow the start date of an event item (stored in one column) to be after the end date of the event (stored in another column). If a user enters a start date that is later than the specified end date they will be presented with an error message when he or she attempts to save the item.

In another example, people can specify a column in a list as unique so that a contact list may not contain two entries with the same email address.

Sites – The basic capabilities required to use SharePoint sites to engage employees, partners and customers in en effective manner, both inside and outside the firewall.

Communities – The ability to easily access expertise and interact with other people in new and creative ways across the enterprise through both formal and informal networks.

Content – The facilities for the creation, review, publication and disposal of content while conforming to defined compliance rules, whether the content exists as traditional documents or as Web pages. SharePoint 2010’s content-management capabilities include document management, records management, and Web-content management.

Search – With more content existing online and involving the collaboration of multiple participants, it is critical that people can quickly and easily locate relevant content across SharePoint lists, sites and external systems and data sources, such as file shares, Web sites or line-of-business applications.

Insights – Information workers need the ability to not only rapidly deliver and share information that is critical to the success of the business but also to turn raw data into actionable conclusions and to drive business results through sharing data-driven analysis.

Composites – Business users of all roles need the ability to quickly create customized solutions without involving corporate IT in each request. At the same time, the IT staff needs the capability to empower business users to create these applications while ensuring the environment’s stability and availability.

Access Services : Enables users to view, edit, and interact with Microsoft Access databases in a Web browser.

Application Registry Service : Enables users to search and collaborate around business data.

Business Connectivity Services : Enables structured data from line-of-business applications, such as SAP and Siebel systems, to be integrated into SharePoint Server "14".

Excel Services : Enables users to view and interact with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in a Web browser.

Lotus Notes Connector : Enables users to search data on a Lotus Notes server.

Managed Metadata Service : Enables teams or departments to manage their own taxonomy, hierarchies, keywords, and social tagging infrastructure, so that, for example, taxonomies and content types can be shared across the organization (across site collections and web applications)

People : Enables users to search for people within their organization to, for example, find skills, memberships within enterprise communities, and shared interests.

Performance Point Service : Balanced scorecard and dynamic dashboard tool that allows power users/IT to create dynamic and highly interactive dashboards that display strategy to operations. Performance Point Services allows you to combine multiple data sources, and objects providing a single view of the business.

Search Service Application : Enables user to index content, gather information, and perform search queries.

Secure Store Service : Enables users to store data securely, and associate it to a specific identity or group of identities.

State Service : Enables users to temporarily store user session data for SharePoint Server "14" components.

Usage and Health Data Collection : Collects farm-wide usage and health data, so that users can view usage and health reports.

Visio Graphics Service : Enables users to view and refresh published Visio diagrams.

Word Conversion Service Application : Enables users to perform automated bulk document conversions.

References : http://sharepoint-sandbox.com

In Sharepoint 2010 two new features for creating view added. In create or modify view screen you can see "Inline Editing" and "Tabular View" sections.

You can't install SharePoint 2010 on Microsoft Virtual PC as it needs 64 bit Platform. As of now, Microsoft Virtual PC don’t support 64 bit operating system guest.

ASP.NET sites after a long period of inactivity, the site comes up very slowly during the first access. However, subsequent accesses, by same or other users, are fast. More than people know that is an IIS setting issue (goes to sleep!). However, the slowness is not IIS.

The first request to an ASP.NET application is slow. The reason you see this repeatedly is because IIS (which I assume you are using) will idle timeout when the configured time is reached If you don't want this behavior, and you do not need IIS to shut down the application pool, you can disable this.
But there is nothing in IIS you can do to solve the actual problem that First request to an ASP.NET application is slow. SpSiteWakeUp is an opensource tool allow wake up your SharePoint sites and sub site. You can use Windows Service version to automate this progress.

For more information click here to access Code Plex Project Page or Kemal Karadag's personal blog

The SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit provides developers with deep guidance on how to develop for SharePoint 2010. Through PowerPoint decks, Hands-On Labs, Source Code, and Instructor-Led Videos, the developer kit walks you through an array of important developer topics--including Developer Roadmap, Visual Studio tooling, Workflow, Business Connectivity Services, and much, much more.

You can watch videos at Channel9 and you can download training kit via this link.

The server-packages of JuneCumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and WindowsSharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. KB articles are also avaliable.

Download Information

Windows SharePoint Services3.0 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971538

Office SharePoint Server2007 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971537

Detail Description

Description of the WindowsSharePoint Services 3.0 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971538

Description of the OfficeSharePoint Server 2007 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971537