I wanted to use the new REST services in SharePoint 2010. But when I navigated to the ListData.svc service. I got the following error: “Could not load type 'System.Data.Services.Providers.IDataServiceUpdateProvider' from assembly 'System.Data.Services, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.”

I’m running Linux in Hyper-V VMs since the launch of the Windows Server 2008 RTM. It was quite complex to get performance and support for the network drivers. Recently with the launch of Windows Server 2008 R2 there are also new Linux Integration Components which also work for 2008 RTM. Here is the list of steps to install CentOS with these components.

As announced yesterday by Microsoft the Office 2010 products will be 64bit only. Well no surprise there, we already knew that. But they went even further: Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server on 64bit is a must for ensuring the best performance possible.