Today’s highlights from the sessions I attended: One of the new features of SharePoint 2010 is Access Services – we at Black Marble have been doing some work using Access Services (see Richard’s blog post for more details, along with the Access 2010 demo on Channel9), which Robert and I presented during the first …

A few more highlights from the sessions I saw: The new taxonomy services in SharePoint 2010 look superb. The ability to be able to centrally define terms for use by the end users, along with allowing both open (i.e. read-write to the end user) and closed (i.e. read-only to the end user) term stores looks very promising …

A few highlights from today’s talks: With SharePoint 2010, we no longer have a Shared Service Provider (SSP), instead we now have service application instead. All of the applications benefit from an internal load balancing scheme (fault tolerant round robin load balancing), meaning that as long as you start a service …

I’m attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas – it’s been an interesting first day with some notable announcements: A public beta of SharePoint 2010 will be available in November, with RTM in H1 2010. The new version of SharePoint Designer for SharePoint 2010 will be a free download. Microsoft …

I’ve been a bit delayed writing this final blog post from Tech Ed EMEA 2008, so I’m back in the UK. The final day at Tech Ed 2008 EMEA IT was not quite as session filled as previous days, mainly because Rik and I had to be heading off to the airport shortly before 3pm to catch our flight home. The first presentation of …

Today has been interesting. Rik and I started the day doing the sightseeing we had time for. The Gaudi cathedral had been particularly recommended, so with limited time at our disposal, that’s what we decided to see. We arrived at the gate just as it opened, and were in within a few minutes. The cathedral is very, very …