Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

Early this week (Monday), I had tweeted that SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 Download was available for Microsoft Partners – SDPS. If you are following me on http://twitter.com/alpesh you know about it! This download has now been made available for everyone.

To quote from the download page:

Overview

This download contains a two Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS  Read more... (624 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

This how to is enable IIS in Windows7, either using GUI or CLI. This is one of the pre-requisites for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows7 for development purposes.  Read more... (144 words, 13 images, estimated 35 secs reading time)

This is the list of official Microsoft twitter accounts that I have found on on10.net

Thank you Sarah.  Read more... (348 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Bing home with a background

Bing home without a background

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

Have you checked out the Bing Ultimate Resource Page?

Microsoft have released a limited beta of their new antivirus application – Microsoft Security Essentials Beta.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

I am based in Australia and have just finished downloading this using my U.S based Live ID.

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect web site.

Download

As can be  seen, there are 3 separate downloads for you, depending on your version of the operation system  Read more... (173 words, 1 image, estimated 42 secs reading time)