Finding Office Web Apps 2010 for SharePoint 2010

We've been searching everywhere for Microsoft's Office Web Apps 2010 for SharePoint 2010.  After asking a sales rep, we were given the link to Microsoft's VLSC site.  Your organization has to have a volume license agreement before you can enter the site.  Once in the site, go to the Office Professional Plus 2010 with SP1 site, click on the downloads link, then you'll see "Office Web Apps 2010 64-bit English (for SharePoint 2010)."  Also be aware that it uses its own software key, not that of Office 2010 or SharePoint.  Good luck.

SharePoint Designer editing for SharePoint Server 2010

If your organization decides to edit/create SharePoint 2010 content via SharePoint Designer, ensure you use the correct version of the designer.  I spent three hours trying to figure out why I kept getting "This web site has been configured to disallow editing with SharePoint Designer."  I created a brand new SharePoint site, ensured the check-boxes were checked and still received that message.  No where in Microsoft's website could I explicitly find a solution.  Finally someone blogged a solution to the problem, mentioning that they installed SharePoint Designer version 2010 and the problem was solved.  Luckily, SharePoint Designer 2010 is a free downloadable application.  Click here to visit the Microsoft site.

Fixing SharePoint 2010 Navigation Crumbs

I found a navigation crumb whose link was broken.  The library was working correctly when the user clicked the Library link in the "Quick aunch" left section but the crumb at the top wasn't pointing to the "Forms/AllItems.aspx" page but rather to nowhere. This problem occurs when there's no default view selected for the Library or list.  Perform the following to fix the problem:

1. Click Site Actions
2. Click Site Settings
3. Click Site libraries and lists from the Site Administration section
4. Click "Customize..." on the library or list that's not working
5. Scroll down the page until you see Views
6. You should notice that there is no view checked as Default View
7. If there are existing views to choose from, make one of them the default
8. If there are no views, click Create view, and pick "All Documents" at the bottom
9. Use the defaults and click OK
10. This will return you to the library/list page where you should see the views section updated
11. Use your crumb or Quick Launch link to return to the problemed library
12. Click on the updated crumb at the top of the page, it should be working now