Sharepoint Server 2010 technical diagrams

1. Services in SharePoint 2010 Products--Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design
2. Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products--Illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services.
3. Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010--Describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies, including planning which servers to start services on.
4. Hosting Environments in SharePoint 2010 Products--Summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures.
5. Business Connectivity Services Model--Microsoft Business Connectivity Services are a set of services and features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 that support integrating data from external systems into solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. This model poster describes the architecture of Microsoft Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Server 2010 and provides information about how to create solutions that are based on the service.
   Use this model with the following article: Business Connectivity Services overview (SharePoint Server 2010)
6. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning--This model covers planning for an upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010. It includes information about the following:
   Upgrade requirements: Hardware, operating system, and database
   Upgrade process: specific steps to follow before, during, and after the upgrade
   Use this model with the following article: Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010
7. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Approaches--This model helps you understand the in-place, database attach, and hybrid approaches to upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.
   See the farm topologies before, during, and after upgrade
   Compare the advantages of each type of upgrade approach
   Use this model with the following articles:
   Determine upgrade approach (SharePoint Server 2010)
   Upgrade process overview (SharePoint Server 2010)
8. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Test Your Upgrade Process--This model explains the methodology for testing the upgrade process before upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.
   Understand the goals for testing your upgrade process: customizations, hardware, timing, planning
   See specific steps to follow for testing your upgrade process
   Use this model with the following article: Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues (SharePoint Server 2010)
9. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Services Upgrade--This model covers upgrading services from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.
   Considerations for specific services: Personalization, Search, InfoPath Forms, Excel, Business Data Catalog, Single Sign-on
   In-place upgrade with services
   Database attach upgrade with services
10. Choose a tool for business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010--Discusses the tools available for business intelligence

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010

Here you can find the webcast for Getting Started with SharePoint 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide is published today by MSThis evaluation guide is designed to give the IT professional an introduction and overview of the SharePoint Server 2010 features that are most pertinent to installing, managing, and configuring the SharePoint farm.
You can download the guide here

SharePoint Products and Technologies (2010) in MSDN

This documentation includes the following topics about the new features in SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 and updates to the object model to help you get started:

*What’s New in SharePoint Foundation 2010
*What’s New in SharePoint Server 2010
*Getting Started with Development for SharePoint Foundation
*Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server

SharePoint 2010 Hand-On-Labs

Today MS publishes 10 hands-on lab manuals for SharePoint 2010.

Use these 10 hands-on lab manuals for SharePoint 2010 to get started learning SharePoint 2010 development. Each lab is available in C# and Visual Basic.

HOL01 - Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab introduces the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint development environment. It shows how to build a Visual Web Part using LINQ to SharePoint, and how to connect one Web Part to another Web Part on the page.

HOL02 - Developing a List Definition and Event Receiver in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building a list definition for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010. It also shows how to build an event receiver for the list in Visual Studio 2010 and deploy it to SharePoint. After the list and event receiver are deployed, you can use the developer dashboard to evaluate the performance of the event receiver.

HOL03 - Developing Advanced Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab shows how to build a Web Part using several SharePoint-specific controls in Visual Studio 2010. Investigate advanced built-in Web Parts, including the Data View Web Part.

HOL04 - Developing with LINQ to SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab explores a variety of LINQ queries on SharePoint 2010, going into more depth than the introductory hands-on lab. It also walks you through an exercise of creating a custom content type in Visual Studio 2010.

HOL05 - Developing for SharePoint 2010 with the Client OM and REST in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab introduces the Client object model for use in calling SharePoint 2010 APIs from a client machine. It also shows the use of ADO.NET Data Services to call REST services in SharePoint 2010.

HOL06 - Developing a BCS External Content Type with Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building an external content type for Business Connectivity Services using Visual Studio 2010. It also builds a form for Microsoft Outlook and shows the data being edited offline in Outlook.

HOL07 - Developing a SharePoint 2010 Workflow with Initiation Form in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building a workflow in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010. You add an initiation form to the workflow and use an external data exchange activity in the workflow.

HOL08 - Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface with Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building Microsoft Silverlight applications for use in SharePoint 2010. You will access SharePoint 2010 data in Silverlight using the Client object model.

HOL09 - Developing SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions in Visual Studio 2010
This hands-on lab walks you through building a Sandboxed Solution Web Part for SharePoint 2010. It will also add code to the Web Part that overloads the limits placed by the sandboxed solution, and you will review how the solution is shut down.

HOL10 - Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface Ribbon and Dialog Customizations
This hands-on lab walks you through adding a custom action to the SharePoint 2010 ribbon, and creating a Web Part that uses the Dialog Framework.

You can download the documents here