SharePoint 2009: Massive Hands-On Labs

22 Oct 2009 @ 2:41 PM

An amazing illustration of the scope & scale of the SharePoint 2009 Conference is the hands-on labs that Microsoft made available during the conference, so that one could get one’s hands dirty with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 in between sessions.

I just (finally) took enough of a break between the sessions to spend some time on SharePoint 2010. Here’s a video of the massive hands-on lab they made available:

Microsoft really didn’t mess around. Loaded on each one of the pretty-decent HP Xeon-based workstations was a set of SharePoint 2010 virtual machines, and on the opposite monitor was the display area for the lab manual for whichever of appx 25 different labs they had available for you to work on.

In addition to being able to put the pieces together from the various conferences and let some of it sink in as I got my hands dirty, there was another epiphany I had while getting to work with SharePoint 2010 beta, as well as the new Office 2010 and web-based Office 2010 beta:

I had always assumed that the entire reason why Microsoft was creating a web-based Office was to directly compete with Google Docs and provide people with a low-cost, cloud based solution for Office. Whoa – not the case at all. Now that full display & editing for all office document types is available right from the browser window, there is so much end-user document management that has been dramatically streamlined. Even the most simplistic of tasks – where you’re trying to just pop open a document to see if it has the correct title and description and is tagged correctly. Now that one can just directly open a PowerPoint document in-browser, it’s just a seamless set of clicks which allows you to complete the whole task without opening any other windows or tabs, or even leaving your SharePoint navigation. It really allows (finally) Office documents to participate in the web UX in a totally seamless way – just how we’ve always wanted them to. And with SharePoint as your workspace for dealing with all forms of Office communication, it makes it so much more compelling to just standardize on.

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Last Edit: 22 Oct 2009 @ 02:41 PM

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