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Energize IT Action Plan

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:

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Energize IT Action Plan

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  1. Energize IT Action Plan

  2. Your #1 online training source http://channel9.msdn.com http://edge.technet.com

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. ALM Action Plan Get Guidance and Training Content These are a good start, and remember: Bing is your friend! • Team Development with Team Systemhttp://www.codeplex.com/tfsguide • ALM Assessmenthttp://www.microsoft.com/almassessment • Team System Rockshttp://www.teamsystemrocks.net • Upgrade Guidancehttp://vs2010upgradeguide.codeplex.com/ • Channel 9http://channel9.msdn.com

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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 example

  12. SharePoint 2010 Action Plan Visit Other SharePoint Sites These are a good start, and remember: Bing is your friend! • SharePoint Team Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint • Alltop’s list of SharePoint blogshttp://sharepoint.alltop.com/ • CMS Wire’s Sharepoint news feedhttp://www.cmswire.com/news/topic/sharepoint • Get the Pointhttp://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/ • SharePointDevWikihttp://sharepointdevwiki.com/ • SharePoint MVP blog feedhttp://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/mvps/default.aspx • SharePoint videos on YouTubehttp://youtube.com/profile?user=GetStartedSharePoint

  13. Action Plan Read Some Books In paper or ebook format • These publishers produce books on SharePoint: • Addison-Wesley Professionalhttp://awprofessional.com • Apresshttp://apress.com/ (@Apress on Twitter) • Manning Publicationshttp://manning.com(@ManningBooks on Twitter) • Microsoft Presshttp://mspress.microsoft.com • Sams Publishinghttp://samspublishing.com/ • Wrox Presshttp://wrox.com

  14. 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!

  15. 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!

  16. Action Plan Take a Course Remember that Bing is your friend! • Microsoft Certified Partners that offer SharePoint training in Canada include: • Compulitehttp://www.compulite.ca/ • CMS Consultinghttp://cmsconsultinginc.com/ • CTC Computer Training Centreshttp://www.traincanada.com/ • CTE Solutionshttp://www.ctesolutions.com/ • Dell Canadahttp://dell.ca/ • HiTech Institutehttp://hitechnetwork.com/ • LearnQuesthttp://learnquest.com/

  17. Action Plan Take a Course, continued Yes, a lot of places offer SharePoint courses! • Microsoft Certified Partners that offer SharePoint training in Canada include: • Metaforehttp://www.metafore.ca/ • New Horizonshttp://www.newhorizons.com/ • Nexient Learning / Global Knowledgehttp://www.nexientlearning.com/NexientLearning/en-CA • ObjectSharphttp://www.objectsharp.com/ • SharePointHQhttp://www.sharepointhq.com/ • Strophehttp://www.strophe.com/ • Web Age Solutionshttp://www.webagesolutions.com/

  18. 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 anda 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

  19. 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

  20. 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: • Canadian Developer Connection • Canadian IT Pro Connection • Canadian IT Manager Connection • Canadian IT Architecture Connection • Our webcasts: • Ignite Your Coding • Ignite Your Career • Ignite Your Venture • We’re here for you!

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