At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, I had the distinct pleasure to present the Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 session. The early estimates are that over 1000 people attended that session. I personally had a real good time talking about SharePoint Designer since, aside from the facts that it’s my favorite tool to customize SharePoint and that I co-authored the book on SharePoint Designer 2007, so many enhancements have been made to this product that I didn’t have to use the “maybe this feature will be included in the next version” answer even once in the session Q&A! Awesome! . …

It is now official. I have joined Critical Path Training as an instructor. Critical Path Training (formerly known as Ted Pattison Group) is a widely renowned leader in the SharePoint training space. I’m honored to be part of the team and looking forward to working together and bringing world class SharePoint 2010 training to the market. I’m currently working on the course Creating No-Code SharePoint Designer Solutions for SharePoint 2010 which will cover SharePoint Designer, InfoPath and SharePoint Workspace. We’ll start offering this class in early 2010 in both the instructor led and hands on format and online.

Asif Rehmani presented this session at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 during the week of Oct 19, 2009. SharePoint Designer 2010, a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. You will also learn about the new ribbon interface of SharePoint Designer 2010 and shows how best …

With so much new information on the SharePoint 2010 Products and Technologies, it’s hard to talk about all of it using just words or screenshots. To that end, I have produced several videos showing demonstrations of the new functionality, which I covered at my sessions at SPC, on the following page: http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/free-sharepoint-sharepoint-designer-and-infopath-2010-videos/ More videos soon! Enjoy!