SharePoint 2010 Administrator Training

I recently passed both of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration exams (70-667 & 70-668) and I’ve been asked what I used to study for them. In order to help answer this question in the future, I put this post together.

First, here are some free resources that I used:

Up to this point, I’ve been focusing on the infrastructure track. I personally prefer instructor led (or video) training, combined with hands on experience. So as I’ve been watching the videos, I’ll stop and jump on my server (a server I have running Win 2008 and Hyper-V) to try things out.

Through Sogeti (my employer), I also have access to Books 24x7 (www.books24x7.com) – there are currently six 2010 books there and I’m working my way through two so far:

Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration – I met one of the authors and have seen the others speak – all of them very good.
Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2010 – I’ve just covered some overview chapters in this one, since it was available before the others. It seems to be good so far.

I also want to look into these:

Professional SharePoint 2010 Development – I saw Tom Rizzo (an author) speak at a conference a few years ago and I read Scot Hillier’s 2007 Dev book
Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide: Learning Microsoft’s Business Collaboration Platform – to get ideas for end user training topics

I’m sure I’m just scratching the surface when it comes to 2010 books. The authors have done a great job in getting books published quickly after SP2010’s RTM. (SharePoint 2007 was a much different story – very few books were available the first six months of its release.)