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One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 (news, site) was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.

You can imagine the cheers that went up through the crowd of over 7,000 at the SharePoint conference last week when they were told they can run SharePoint 2010 environments on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP1.

The install works for both SharePoint Foundation -- formerly WSS -- and SharePoint Server.

SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7

Now keep in mind this is just a standalone environment for developers, it's not meant for production at all. And, it does still require that you have a 64 bit operating system.

There are some prerequisites for running an install on Windows Vista and be sure to check out the RAM and space requirements for both Foundation and SharePoint Server. 

We know you don't have the beta yet, at least most of us don't, but here's the MSDN article explaining the installation process.

The Microsoft Project 2009 Conference kicked off yesterday officially, but today the big news around what will come in 2010 was announced and we have the details for you. Of course, we won't be talking about MS Project 2010 without talking about SharePoint -- that's just how it will be from now on.

SharePointBoost is a supplier of SharePoint Web Parts and Add-ons, in addition to consulting services. Their products range from list, administration, portal, alert to lookup web parts, in addition to a couple of free tools.

Probably one of the most interesting is the SharePoint Password Change web part. With a new version recently released, this web part offers some nice capabilities to help administrators manage the password security policies for their implementation.

Remember SurfRay? They acquired search provider Mondosoft back in 2007 and at the same time made Ontonlica Search a separate product.

Ontolica is a search solution for SharePoint and Surfray has just announced the latest version.

So it was available -- the fourth and final version of the SharePoint Administrators Toolkit for SharePoint 2007 (news, site) -- for a little while. The toolkit, which offers administrative services for both MOSS and WSS3.0 has been released, but is not available due to a file issue in the download package.

Now some of you might ask why Alterian (news, site) would have two SharePoint connectors in their inventory content management connectors. If you knew the history of Alterian, you would know. It's because they have two web content management systems: Morello and Immediacy. And each one connects to SharePoint a little bit different.

Microsoft SharePoint is very much an application development platform. It enables the design and development of solutions that both leverage and extend its functionality. And a lot of vendors offer solutions that run on SharePoint.

CorasWorks is one of these vendors, offering a number of solutions for SharePoint, including its Modular Application Development System. Their development system provides an easier way to development custom solutions for SharePoint -- without the need to write a lot of code.

Now they make it even easier to install custom solutions on SharePoint with the release of the AppEngine for SharePoint. The AppEngine enables you to download and install plug and play custom applications into the SharePoint environment.

Ah, we knew it wouldn't be long until we heard about another new SharePoint connector. This latest one comes from Kentico (news, site) and is called the Kentico CMS Connector for SharePoint. What's different about this one? It's free.

Adjusting your pricing model to bring more customers to your door has become a common theme lately. Vorsite (news, site), a provider of enterprise content connectors, has offered up their new pricing model designed to not only help them, but SharePoint as well.

There are a few different solutions available to backup and restore your SharePoint content, but not all of them enable the restoration of a single document, Metalogix's Selective Restore Manager Pro for SharePoint however, does.

When we first looked at the new MetaVis Technologies (news, site) tools for SharePoint, we knew there would be a lot of interest from enterprise struggling to manage and control their SharePoint implementations.

These tools which include taxonomy support and metadata management for SharePoint -- both MOSS and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 -- are any SharePoint architect's dream, helping with the creation, deployment and management of SharePoint sites.

Today they are generally available to the public and CMSWire caught up with Steve Pogrebivsky, MetaVis CEO and Co-Founder, to check on how the products are being received.

Just like they said, Microsoft released the Office Service Pack 2 on April 28. In that service pack are a number of improvements and bug fixes for both SharePoint Server 2007 (news, site) and WSS. We offered the hightlights earlier, now we look a little deeper.

There are any number of SharePoint add-ons and web parts available today. We can't cover them all. But sometimes one crosses our path that we find interesting enough to pass on. That's how it was Friday when we told you about SharePoint Solutions's new Data Zoom Web Part.

And that's how it is today as we tell you about a new offer from Bamboo Solutions (news, site) called SharePoint Navigators -- a new tool that lets you customize and personalize the navigation for your users in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS3.0) or MOSS.

Microsoft has stated that Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be available on April 28 with complete documentation. They have, however, provided us with highlights of what we can expect. We share these with you.

A new version of the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 has recently been released as a CTP (community technology preview). What's new in this release that will make SharePoint developers happy?