Great article below on how to enable\Install WebDav on Windows 2008

http://blog.coretech.dk/confmgr07/site-systems/configuring-webdav-on-windows-server-2008-for-configuration-manager-2007/

Information Below is subject to change once SharePoint 2010 has been released to manufacture (RTM), estimated delivery date is mid 2010.

Overview SharePoint 2010 Beta

SharePoint 2010 can be summed up as “The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web”. The Below pie chart shows the 8 main feature of SharePoint;

Each slice is detailed at a high-level below

Sites

Place where people can collaborate and build web sites.

• Departmental Portals and Collaboration
• Departmental Content Management
• SharePoint Online

Communities

People working together and ease of discovering people with the right skill set in your organization.

Information

• I like it = saved to tagging in my site
• Tagged = assign keyword to other content, improvement on search  and tags are shown in my site
• Tags and notes = specific to you as a user where you can make notes on the content not just SharePoint content
• Taxominy
• Runs as a timer job so might be delayed before it appears in My site

My Site

• Status update *like face book* and hooks into communicator and outlook status’s
• Organization = Silverlight org chart reading for AD profile import, AD and collogues is used for Social Distance.
• Content
• Colleagues
• Membership
• Personal information such as interested and bio

Content

The data stored in SharePoint and the means of accessing the content.

One Click Page creation, site actions, new page, enter name, click create – you are then sent to the page and utilize ribbon for changing page layout and adding content, you can add web parts with in content editor so not restricted to page layout

Digital Asset

Video streaming – streamed from SharePoint to client using Silverlight (OOB), other options available

Ability to create Learning and training Sites

Improved Asset performance using the following technology:

• IIS 7 bit rate throttling module
• BLOB cache (for SQL Performance)
• Silverlight 2.0
• Video sent in chunks (streaming is not supported)

Search

Ability to find the right  information quickly and precisely

• Refine Search results (people and content search)
• People Search, will find Nick Names and phonetically incorrectly spell names  
• Standard search Hit highlighting in search results
• Refine content results by using tagging (people tagging)
• Full failover for Index, crawl, query servers and databases
  • Index Server can have a query even when multiple query roles have been deployed
  • Improved support for virtualization and 64bit
  • Built in monitoring using SharePoint Health Analyzer and SCOM
  • FAST Search – custom refine using content types 

Insights

Business Intelligence and modeling

• Performance Point
• Excel Services
• Power Pivot

Composites

Means of connecting LOB systems and safe development sites

• BDC now BCS *Business Connectivity Service”- connect to LOB systems (SQL, SAP, CRM, .NET, WCM) can read and write to data  source  – using SharePoint designer to create:
• External Content types – New content type – Select Database Source – SQL Server – Select DB – Select Table to build CRUD – Build external list by entering list name.
• click save and then you can see it in SharePoint web UI
• External Lists;
  • cannot have alerts or workflow,
  • Can be used as part of a work flow.
  • Can be used in forms.
  • Permission trimming not in SharePoint, pulled from LOB system.
  • Access Services – can publish access DB into SharePoint and access the tables (restrictions around custom code)
  • Sandbox Solutions – throttle code, quota code, and shutdown code once quota is hit. Smaller API set.

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Microsoft has announced that the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 is now available for download.

The public beta for SharePoint 2010 is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=77c30c6c-47fc-416d-88e7-8122534b3f37&displaylang=en   (please make note of the system requirements and perquisites within this article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee391660.aspx)

The public beta for Office 2010 is available here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx