Hosting Environments for SharePoint 2010 Products
Summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures.

Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
Illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services.

Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.

Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products
Compares and contrasts search technologies in SharePoint 2010 Products

Microsoft Business Connectivity Services Model
Microsoft Business Connectivity Services enable users to interact with external data by using SharePoint lists and Microsoft Office 2010.

Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
This model describes the physical and logical architecture components of the search system.

Design Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
This model describes the steps to determine a basic design for a SharePoint Server 2010 search architecture.

Search Environment Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
This model describes primary architecture design decisions for search environments.

Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010
Discusses the business intelligence tools available in SharePoint Server 2010.

Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010
Describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies, including planning which servers to start services on.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide
Introduction and overview of SharePoint Server 2010 for IT pros.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Approaches
This model describes the three basic approaches to upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010: in-place, database attach, or a hybrid of the two.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Test Your Upgrade Process
To help ensure a smooth transition to SharePoint Server 2010, perform a trial upgrade to find issues likely to surface during the actual process.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Services Upgrade
You need to give special consideration to the issues involved when you upgrade services from the previous version of SharePoint Server.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning
Describes requirements and considerations for planning to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010.

SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper
An Introduction for ASP.NET Solution Architects by David Chapell
This white paper provides an overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform for ASP.NET developers.

SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs
The SharePoint 2010 developer evaluation guide describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers.

SharePoint 2010: Developer and IT Professional Learning Plan
A guide to learning about SharePoint 2010 for Developers and IT Pros
This document provides information to help developers and IT professionals learn Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Developer Platform Wall Poster
The SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform wall poster (PDF format) shows a view of the SharePoint 2010 developer tools, community ecosystem, execution environment, Sharepoint Server 2010 workloads, and target application types. The poster is intended to be printed at 24 inches x 36 inches (61 centimeters x 91 centimeters).

SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic
Use these 10 hands-on lab manuals for SharePoint 2010 to get started learning SharePoint 2010 development.