From Eli Robillard’s World of Blog a very important post to get you started on developing or preparing to star developing on Sharepoint Server 2010.

http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2009/10/29/how-to-build-a-sharepoint-2010-development-machine-part-i.aspx

From the istartedsomething blog a post on the our productivity and enterprise future.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/

Recently I had to find out more about FAST for a project, and it is a great solution fo real enterprise search. Now with the new version of Sharepoint 2010 the FAST solution can be a part of it, find out how and what it can offer your business or your clients business.

http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2009/10/28/fast-meets-sharepoint-what-s-coming-in-search-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx

It has been a while since I worked on a Intranet Project, something I really like. Specially this one were I am able to telive my days of Sharepoint Portal Server 2003, because I will have to migrate the existing Intranet to a MOSS environment.
So to change a bit of my last contexts, this time is an Intranet, with a migration from SPS 2003.

I haven’t posted in a long time, mostly due to two reasons, holidays and my latest project.

Yesterday has been launched my latest project: www.culturaonline.pt.

It is a Sharepoint 2007 website, with so many integrations and the functionality of mobile channel.

It was a very demanding project, but it is a great joy to see him go live.

Let me just thank to all of our team for the effort and dedication on this project, you are the best!

The migration process usually is done from WSS to MOSS, but once in a while there is the need to do the opposite, so what should you do?

First of all you need to be careful with the features of MOSS that don’t exist in WSS, so a good option is to deactivate them before trying to do a Backup or Export.

This can result in problems with your site, so the best thing is to insure that everything works with the MOSS features deactivated, before migrating to WSS.

Follow Nanddeep Nachan post on this.

Microsoft has announced the prices, availability and business models for the Azure platform.

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14/confirming-commercial-availability-and-announcing-business-model.aspx

Portugal is one of the first countries to have it available

Microsoft has released a new web site about Sharepoint 2010, this new site is intended to provide a sneak peek on the product.

The videos can be check on :

Overview

IT Professional

Developer

A Get Ready section on the steps to prepare for the arrival of the new version.

And the FAQ’s section to answer the most common doubts.

You can check this new site here.

The final version of the Silverlight 3 is already available for download.

You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx

Mary Jo Foley’s article on this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3289

A friend on mine asked me if I had any ideia how can a Sharepoint site be in one language (Portuguese) and the correspondant My sites be in another (English).

The reason was that the Sharepoint was in English and had the Portuguese language pack installed, the result of this is that when a user creates his My Site it will be done in English and not Portuguese. Why?

Well, in the Shared Services, User Profiles and My Sites there is an option My Sites Settings. There you have a check box to enable the user to choose the language for their personal site, it should be unchecked . . .

So to sum up, to solve the problem you can check that option, and the users will be asked, on the creation of the personnal sites, in which language they choose.

It isn´t rocket science, but it solves problems.