I finally got round to creating a web site to store all the resources I give out to students and clients.

It's at http://sharepoint-resources.co.uk and I'll be filling the content out over the next few weeks and maintaining it thereafter.

Hopefully it will become a useful resource for anyone working with SharePoint

Excellent news, Sapien have updated their PowerShell courses to cover the new features in v2. Instead of 3 separate courses there will now only be one 5 day course that can be delivered over 3 to 5 days according to need.

Streamline will be able to deliver the new course starting on March 1^st 2010 (subject to courseware printing).

PowerShell v2 is now available for all versions of Windows and is the default scripting environment for SharePoint 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

Please get in touch if you are interested.

PowerShell v2 Course Outline.pdf (15.67 kb)

I just got a place on the SharePoint 2010 Developer Ignite training next week

Microsoft are planning to release two 5 day SP2010 developer focussed courses in June that haven't been released to MCTs yet so this should be a good indication of what will be covered.

Highlight from today

- service applications

this is huge change, No more SSPs, lots of new farm architecture choices. This is going to be fun to teach. Microsoft really need to produce a Sharepoint Architects course for 2010.

I'm sitting on Microsoft's SharePoint Ignite training this week. It's a great opportunity to round out my knowledge of SharePoint 2010 before Microsoft release their new training courses.

There's already been a huge amount written about the new stuff in SharePoint 2010 so I'm not going to repeat what has already been said.

The training is being delivered via Live Meeting and it uses virtual labs. So far the lab experience is painfully slow. This is going to be so much better running on local machines and I'm really looking forward to running the new courses on real hardware

In amongst the flood of new SharePoint 2010 content appearing on MSDN today there are a bunch of Hands on Labs at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm

With beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 being released today as well we just need the the public beta of SharePoint to get goiing...

As I noted in a earlier post I have switched to using Server 2008 as my main OS and configured it so that I can boot with or without the Hypervisor enabled.

Today I got round to installing SP2 and after the machine came back up it felt sluggish, as though the Hypervisor was enabled which is odd as my default boot configuration has it disabled.

A quick check of my boot config showed that the service pack had reset 'hypervisorlaunchtype' to 'Auto' for all entries

Very annoying but easliy fixed...

The other issue I've had is that the SP install removed 'Windows Mail' from my quick launch bar. Also annoying but easliy fixed.

In my post about repairing a Saab SID I mentioned the Seattle Car Club. As their web site seems to have gone forever I have put up my own walkthrough of the SID repair process.

The page is here.

 Enjoy!

Like a bunch of folks I have moved over to running 64-bit Windows Server 2008 as the primary OS on my laptop, a Dell D830.

The only problems I've had so far are that when the hypervisor is active sound playback is very poor and graphics performance becomes very poor - resizing a window is very jerky and takes ages. VM performance is great but the host seems to suffer. If you use Virtual PC/Server you'll notice that their performance is awful when the hypervisor is active.

I recently found the solution in this blog post http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/04/14/creating-a-no-hypervisor-boot-entry.aspx.

You need to create an alternate boot configuration woth the hypervisor loaded. It's a simple fix -

1. Start an administrative command prompt
2. bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - no hypervisor"
3. bcdedit /set {identifier for the new boot entry (copy from the output of a plain 'bcdedit' command)} hypervisorlaunchtype off

and next time you boot you can choose to have the hypervisor on or off.

As an MCT I end up taking a bunch of Microsoft exams every year. One of the really frustrating things about the Prometric booknig system is that there is no easy way to find your nearest testing centre. This is especially annoying as I travel a lot and often want to fit an exam in at a nearby testing center.

This as now irritated me to the point of doing something about it and I've put all of the UK centers on a Google map so that I can always find the nearest one.

The map is here http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104220127815935886384.00046502a6b697dac55b5&z=6

or

http://tinyurl.com/by444z

Hopefully other UK test takers will find this useful :-)