BangaloreITPros UG Meet - SharePoint 2010 & Windows 7 ACT 5.5 Overview

I had been for BangaloreITPros’ (BITPro) monthly User Group meet over the weekend (Nov 28th 2009). Glad that the 3 hours I spent over there was useful.

There were two sessions - SharePoint 2010 Beta Technical Overview & Windows 7 Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 Overview

SharePoint 2010 - by RaviKanth from M/s Dell India Pvt. Ltd.,, spoke about new features and System requirement too

• Granular backups using central admin sit, helps to recover small units of data.
• Windows Powershell support
• Ability to restore from unattached databases.
• Improved upgrade process
• To be released in first half of 2010

SharePoint 2010 supports only x64 OS with 64bit SQL Server (2005 or 2008), so the x64 system requirement could be a bad news for those who use SharePoint 2007 and planning to upgrade to 2010.

The Slide Deck for the SharePoint 2010 Technical Overview can be found here and Joel’s blog on SharePoint has lot more for us.

Windows 7 ACT 5.5 Overview – by Vijay Raj from Texas Instrument
Vijay gave an overview of Windows 7 Core OS changes and a detailed explanation of how the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.5 can be used to mitigate the AppCombat issues, like how the compatibility issues can be detected and fixed using ACT either during development or deployment phase, in a corporate environment for supporting new versions of Microsoft Windows Operating System.

The Slide Deck for the same is available here.

Bangalore .Net (BDOTNET) user group has some events in pipeline for the developers.