SPC09 is go! Conference Keynote
The build up to this event has been growing, it sold out with over 7400 people attending, making this probably the biggest Microsoft Conference ever!
This is probably the best social networking conference, with the biggest beach party in Mandalay Bay hotel on Tuesday night.. with room for dancing (or to quote Tom Rizzo) to sway!
7.5 miles of network cabling to support the Wireless network 
Steve Balmer takes to the stage in his usual enthusiastic style, finally getting to take on the last thing from Bill Gates and present at a SharePoint conference.
Everything Microsoft are doing, SharePoint is at the Center!
When can you get it?
Public beta will be shipped in November! Releasing in the first half of next year.
SharePoint Evolution
Big talk on the successor to Groove with the use of SharePoint Workspace, and looking forward at bringing SharePoint to the consumer market.
A push for Rapidly Responding to Business needs, with talk of end user ‘programming’ – the empowerment of the power users through tools like SharePoint Designer.
SharePoint Designer = ‘Learn It, Live It, Live It’
Using the new Business Connectivity Services and SharePoint designer you can now link backend systems to SharePoint an on into Office with no code. Great example of using SharePoint external connector in Outlook so users see contacts as contacts and can edit in Outlook.
Visual Studio tooling for SharePoint development has provided a ‘lot’ of feedback to Microsoft, there is a ton of great enhancements to the tooling to make this much better with SharePoint tools in VS2010 out of the box.
SharePoint development supported on Windows 7 and Vista!
Great out of the box integration with SharePoint explorer in Visual Studio.
Now with VS2010 you can deploy directly with F5 debugging.
Demo of the Developer Dashboard showing the code that is running, what SQL server queries have been run << this is sweet.
Sandboxed Solutions
The ability to do solution deployments through the UI, with full control for usage on the database, processor and memory usage throttling.
SharePoint Online
Moving the services into the cloud, with the Sandbox solution support means it will have the capability to do most things. A real alternative to needing to do things on premise.
SharePoint for Internet Sites
Options to do internet facing site either on premise, with partners or in the cloud.
Product skus for internet facing
- SharePoint for Internet Sites Standard and Enterprise Editions
- FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet Business
Some great additions to the WCM capabilities with 1-click page layouts changing on the fly, with the chrome shown in the editor. Nice copy and paste office content from Office applications directly into the page. Spell checking in the box and in the editor.
Rich Search experience using Fast navigators, I can see Fast search being a big thing in 2010.
