SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap Lab

Version: 2.0

Description

In this lab you will begin your work with SharePoint 2010 and become familiar with the Virtual Machine (VM) that you will be using in this week’s SharePoint 2010 Developer Workshop. You will get experience working with the SharePoint Central Administration site as well as working with a standard team site. This will allow you to experience the new user interface concepts introduced in SharePoint 2010 such as the server-side ribbon and in-place item editing. You will also get a chance to write and test C# code using the WSS ‘14’ object model. Note that we are purposefully delaying any work with the new VS10 Tools for SharePoint 2010 until the next lab because this new tool set is the focus of the next lecture. At the end of this lab you will also get some hands-on experience working with PowerShell and the new SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Snap-in.

Overview

Lab Time: 45 minutes

Lab Folder: C:\Student\Labs\01_Roadmap

Lab Overview: In this lab you will begin your work with SharePoint 2010 and become familiar with the Virtual Machine (VM) that you will be using. You will get experience working with the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration site as well as working with a standard team site. This will allow you to experience the new user interface concepts introduced in SharePoint 2010 such as the server-side ribbon and in-place item editing. You will also get a chance to write and test C#/VB.Net code using the SharePoint Foundation 2010 object model. Note that we are purposefully delaying any work with the new Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint 2010 until the next lab because this new tool set is the focus of the next lecture. At the end of this lab you will also get some hands-on experience working with PowerShell and the new SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Snap-in.

Note:
Note about Using Beta Software: The VM for this SharePoint 2010 Developer workshop has been built using a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 and the Beta2 version of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Beta 2 version of Visual Studio 2010 with the new SharePoint 2010 developer tools and the Beta1 version of Microsoft Office client application including SharePoint Designer 2010 are also installed on the VM. While working with beta software gives you a great opportunity to get an early look at the product, you must also understand that many aspects of the user interface are not complete and you will likely encounter bugs and areas of various products where functionality has not yet been enabled.

Lab Setup Requirements

Before you begin this lab, you must run the batch file named SetupLab01.bat. When you run this batch file, it executes a PowerShell script that creates a new SharePoint site collection at the location https://intranet.contoso.com/sites/Lab01.