SharePoint 2010 Installation instructions and a warning

Jie Li posted some good installation instructions here that describe how to get the new bits installed. Note the warning saying that this version is not supported and that you cannot upgrade to RTM from this version.

At this point it is not clear to me what this exactly means. During the CTP phase the question about a supported upgrade path was discussed, but as far as I remember (I haven’t checked for a new status in a while) the intention/hope was that it would be the same as was the case for MOSS: that content database migration would be supported from Beta 2 and forward. Now, I have my doubts but I am sure we will get more enlightened in the coming days.

Update:

According to Jie Li’s comments upgrading from this beta to RTM is indeed not supported, not even a content database migration. Bad news, indeed!

From the comments:
@NigelPrice
If you are exporting/importing content that means you are “migrating”. It would be fine. However attach a beta content database to RTM will not work.

There’s no public RC plan that I’m aware of.

@arichards
In past experience with 2007 beta – rtm upgrade, a lot of issues were caused by the beta content. there’s garbage remaining even after SP2. It is still a good time to trial your code and deployment, just don’t use beta in production envoriment.

Office 2010 client and server bits available on TechNet!

This is it, guys! The bits are available on TechNet:

• Office SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 Beta (formerly WSS)
• Office SharePoint Server 2010 Beta
• Office Business Contant Manager 2010 Beta
• FAST Search Server SharePoint 2010 Beta
• Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta
• Office Project Server 2010 Beta
• Office Project Professional 2010 Beta
• Office Search Server Express 2010
• Office SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta
• Office Web Applications 2010 Beta
• Office Visio Premium 2010 Beta

I can’t wait to see what improvements that are implemented compared to Beta 1/CTP!

SharePoint 2010 NDA lifted!

Let the bragging blogging begin

I have had access to the SharePoint 2010 Beta 1 bits since July through our partner agreement at work. I will not start listing all the new things that are coming. Joel has a great summary that you might want to check out. However, I must admit I am impressed with the overall quality of the product, and even though a lot of stuff still doesn’t work, what does work is fan-%”¤%(%”-tastic!

ProActive is already implementing our first SharePoint 2010 solution. We are planning to go live 2-3 weeks after Beta 2 is available depending on the changes. Our solution is a Intranet/Document Management system and I will share our findings in the coming days, more specifically

• the term store and shared metadata and content types
• unique document IDs
• document sets
• etc

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek videos

Three sneak peak videos are available at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx. Some very cool new features are included in the SharePoint 2010 and some of them are being show cased now

According to the IT-Pro video a public beta will be available later this year and SharePoint 2010 is expected to RTM 1st half of 2010.