www.SharePoint247.com

If you are looking for a list comparing the features of the different Sharepoint 2010 Editions you can find one at Microsoft http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx

This list comparse the features of Sharepoint 2010 Foundation and Sharepoint 2010 Standard and Enterprise Editions and gives a brief descriptions of each.

If you are looking at branding you Sharepoint 2010 site there’s a lot of good stuff over at

Randy Drisgill’s blog.

There you can find a starter Master Page for Sharepoint 2010, a good starting point for creating your own Sharepoint 2010 branding.

I also found lots of useful branding tips there.

Microsoft have made available language packs for both Sharepoint 2010 and Sharepoint Foundation 2010.

Tha language packs enables you to run sites with different languages on the same server

You can download the Language packs here.

2010 Server Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010

Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010

Install Sharepoint 2010 language packs on Windows 7

To install the language packs for your development machine on Windows 7 you need to performe a couple of manual steps.

• Open a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) window on your computer
• Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the language packs
• Extract the Language Pack with “SharePointLanguagePack.exe /extract:C:\MyTempFolder”
• Open the config.xml file in C:\MyTempFolder\Files\Setup
• Add <Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/> to the <Configurations> section
• Save and close the file
• Now run setup.exe from C:\MyTempFolder

This is basically the same procedure thats used to install Sharepoint 2010 on a Windows 7 machine. See the following article on MSDN.

Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008

Microsoft announces the Microsoft Sharepoint Conference 2011, October 3-6 2011 in Anaheim, California.

Should give us all plenty of time for planning the trip

SharePoint Conference 2011

If you are doing capacity planning for Sharepoint 2010 Microsoft has several whitepapers that will help you in planning your environement.

Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint Server 2010

This white paper describes the concepts you need to understand to successfully determine the appropriate capacity for your Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment. This white paper provides you with the information that helps you:

• Understand the concepts behind effective capacity management.
• Define performance and capacity targets for your environment.
• Select the appropriate data architecture.
• Choose hardware to support the number of users and the features you intend to deploy.
• Test, validate, and adjust your environment to achieve your performance and capacity targets.
• Monitor and adjust your environment to match demand.

SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity technical case studies

Technical case studies that describe specific deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Compare the scenarios in these documents to your planned workload and usage characteristics.

SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: software boundaries and limits

This white paper provides information to help you understand the tested performance and capacity limits of SharePoint Server 2010, and offers guidelines for how limits relate to acceptable performance. Use the information in this white paper to determine whether your planned deployment falls within acceptable performance and capacity limits, and to properly configure limits in your environment. This white paper addresses the following capacity elements: boundaries, thresholds, and supported limits.

Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010

This model describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies by using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, including planning which servers to start services on.

SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity test results and recommendations

These white papers describe the performance and capacity impact of specific feature sets included in SharePoint Server 2010. These white papers include information about the performance and capacity characteristics of the feature and how it was tested by Microsoft, including:

• Test farm characteristics
• Test results
• Recommendations
• Troubleshooting performance and scalability

There’s an announcement on the Microsoft Sharepoint Team blog with links to two Live chat events where you can ask 28 Sharepoint MVP’s about Sharepoint.

The events will  held On Tuesday May 25th tune in between 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific time, and on Wednesday May 26 tune in between 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific time.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint