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Energize IT Action Plan Your #1 online training source http://channel9.msdn.com http://edge.technet.com ALM Action Plan Visit the Visual Studio 2010 Product Site http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio ... Or Bing it! The first step towards Visual Studio 2010 and ALM enlightenment, with: • An overview of Visual Studio versions • Videos covering Visual Studio and TFS features and benefits that matter to: • Developers • IT Pros • End users/decision-makers • Partners • Downloads of trial versions of Visual Studio 2010 ALM Action Plan Visit the Visual Studio Developer Centers http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/teamsystem ... Or Bing it! Dive deeper into development with: • Training: From “getting started” video tutorials and advanced virtual labs to courses offered by Microsoft Learning • Knowledge: In the form of documentation, articles and webcasts • Community links: Find who’s talking about VSTS on blogs, forums, and social networking sites • Code: See other people’s code and learn by example ALM Action Plan Get Guidance and Training Content These are a good start, and remember: Bing is your friend! • Team Development with Team System http://www.codeplex.com/tfsguide • ALM Assessment http://www.microsoft.com/almassessment • Team System Rocks http://www.teamsystemrocks.net • Upgrade Guidance http://vs2010upgradeguide.codeplex.com/ • Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com Azure Action Plan Visit the Azure Product Site http://azure.net ... Or Bing it! The first step towards a cloud experience on Azure: • An overview of Azure, SQL Azure, App fabric, Dallas and more • Resources : • Case Study • Whitepapers • TCO Calculator • Creation of an account • Downloads of SDK and tools Azure Action Plan Visit the Azure Developer Centers http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/azure/default.aspx... Or Bing it! Dive deeper into development with: • Training: From “getting started” video tutorials and advanced virtual labs to courses offered by Microsoft Learning • Knowledge: In the form of documentation, articles and webcasts • Community links: Find who’s talking about VSTS on blogs, forums, and social networking sites • Code: See other people’s code and learn by example Virtualization Action Plan Visit the Virtualization Product Site http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization... Or Bing it! The first step towards a virtualized infrastructure • An overview of Microsoft’s virtualization offerings • News covering virtualization scenarios features and benefits that matter to: • • • • Developers IT Pros End users/decision-makers Partners Virtualization Action Plan Visit the System Center TechNet Library http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc507089.aspx or Bing It! Dive deeper into development with: • Training: From “getting started” video tutorials and advanced virtual labs to courses offered by Microsoft Learning • Knowledge: In the form of documentation, articles and webcasts • Community links: Find who’s talking about SharePoint on blogs, forums, and social networking sites SharePoint 2010 Action Plan Visit the SharePoint 2010 Product Site http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com... Or Bing it! The first step towards SharePoint 2010 enlightenment, with: • An overview of SharePoint 2010’s features and capabilities • Videos covering SharePoint features and benefits that matter to: • • • • Developers IT Pros End users/decision-makers Partners • Downloads of trial versions of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 SharePoint 2010 Action Plan Visit the SharePoint Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/sharepoint ... Or Bing it! Dive deeper into development with: • Training: From “getting started” video tutorials and advanced virtual labs to courses offered by Microsoft Learning • Knowledge: In the form of documentation, articles and webcasts • Community links: Find who’s talking about SharePoint on blogs, forums, and social networking sites • Code: See other people’s SharePoint code and learn by SharePoint 2010 Action Plan Visit Other SharePoint Sites These are a good start, and remember: Bing is your friend! • SharePoint Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint • Alltop’s list of SharePoint blogs http://sharepoint.alltop.com/ • CMS Wire’s Sharepoint news feed http://www.cmswire.com/news/topic/sharepoint • Get the Point http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/ • SharePointDevWiki http://sharepointdevwiki.com/ • SharePoint MVP blog feed http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/mvps/default.as px • SharePoint videos on YouTube http://youtube.com/profile?user=GetStartedSharePoint Action Plan Read Some Books In paper or ebook format These publishers produce books on SharePoint: • Addison-Wesley Professional http://awprofessional.com • Apress http://apress.com/ (@Apress on Twitter) • Manning Publications http://manning.com (@ManningBooks on Twitter) • Microsoft Press http://mspress.microsoft.com • Sams Publishing http://samspublishing.com/ • Wrox Press http://wrox.com Action Plan Update to Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-ca/products/2010/default.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-ca/products/msdn/default.mspx ... Or Bing it! Visual Studio 2010: • The all-in-one work environment for coding, modelling, testing, debugging and deploying • Ready to build and debug SharePoint 2010 applications with a click of “New Project…” MSDN: • The ultimate developer resource with downloads and documentation, software and support, and Azure compute time too! Action Plan Join a User Group Learn, share your knowledge, make friends and business contacts http://msdn.microsoft.ca/community http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/bb428818.aspx No user group in your area? We can help you start one! Action Plan Take a Course Remember that Bing is your friend! Microsoft Certified Partners that offer SharePoint training in Canada include: • • • • • • • Compulite http://www.compulite.ca/ CMS Consulting http://cmsconsultinginc.com/ CTC Computer Training Centres http://www.traincanada.com/ CTE Solutions http://www.ctesolutions.com/ Dell Canada http://dell.ca/ HiTech Institute http://hitechnetwork.com/ LearnQuest http://learnquest.com/ Action Plan Take a Course, continued Yes, a lot of places offer SharePoint courses! Microsoft Certified Partners that offer SharePoint training in Canada include: • • • Metafore http://www.metafore.ca/ New Horizons http://www.newhorizons.com/ Nexient Learning / Global Knowledge http://www.nexientlearning.com/NexientLearning/enCA • • • • ObjectSharp http://www.objectsharp.com/ SharePointHQ http://www.sharepointhq.com/ Strophe http://www.strophe.com/ Web Age Solutions http://www.webagesolutions.com/ Action Plan Go to TechDays http://techdays.ca/ • It’s our big cross-Canada training conference held in the fall (covering 8 cities this year) • Big conference content, but with local speakers and a down-home price of admission (especially if you register early!) • Deep dives into Microsoft tools and technology, including SharePoint • Access to content from the TechDays and TechEd North America conferences • Great giveaways • An excellent networking opportunity Action Plan Go to Other Conferences To find them, remember that Bing is your friend! • Dedicated SharePoint Conferences • • • • Microsoft SharePoint Conference SharePoint Summit (Montreal) Best Practices Conference SharePoint Saturdays • Microsoft Developer Conferences • • • DevTeach PDC MIX • Code Camps • Local developer conferences held by user groups and local heroes Action Plan Get to Know the Tech Evangelism Team http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/ and http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/ • • • A crack team of Developer and IT Pro evangelists who support you We organize events like EnergizeIT, TechDays and more Our blogs: • • • • • Our webcasts: • • • • Canadian Developer Connection Canadian IT Pro Connection Canadian IT Manager Connection Canadian IT Architecture Connection Ignite Your Coding Ignite Your Career Ignite Your Venture We’re here for you!