After my Wifi access problem, earlier in the day, I faced another little problem when I wanted to save a document from Office Word 2010 into a SharePoint 2010 document library :

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Apparently, this is not an error displayed only in this situation and it seems occuring independantly from the Office version or even the SharePoint version. In fact, it is also related to the way Windows Server 2008 R2 works locally. Remember, I am using my server as a workstation.

The only thing that has to be done is to add the "Desktop Experience" feature and it will work well.

Notice also that before installing this feature, I was also unable to create a "New Document" from a document library, the template was simply not downloaded to the Office client. This also has been fixed by the "Desktop Experience" feature

When I started, few days ago, to prepare a demo about SharePoint 2010 metadata management, I would not have thought it would be that difficult to setup just the machine.

To be able to take the demo with me, I installed a laptop with Windows Server 2008 R2 and the necessary stuff and problems occured when I came nomad with it, using the wireless. Something that is not really rocket science, after all. The problem was that it was completely unable to connect any wireless network

What has to be known, nevertheless, is that on a Windows Server 2008 server box freshly installed, almost nothing is installed. Therefore, to enable to discovery and then to connect on an available WiFi, you have to add the "Wireless LAN Service" feature as it is showed in the picture below :

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So, after few minutes of installation, I was finally able to connect on the net.

4 new certifications about SharePoint 2010 will come in June this year, completing the Microsoft offer and to align the cursus and certification path with the release of SP 2010.

Two of them will be for IT Professionals and related to the configuration and administration of the solution :

TS - Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring

PRO - SharePoint 2010, Administrator

The two others will be for the developers :

TS - Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

PRO - Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

An introduction training is available on the Office Beta web site about the new SharePoint 2010 user interface. During the course, you will go have an look at the ribbon, how to work with lists and document libraries and also how to edit and create pages and sites.

The course is free and available here : http://officebeta.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/overview-RZ101806469.aspx?lc=en-us&section=1