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The Productivity Hub is a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 site collection that offers training materials for end-users. Note: there is a new version of the Hub available for SharePoint 2010 SP1 environments.

• Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts.
  
  The Hub is a SharePoint Server site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft also provides ongoing and updated content packs.
  
  The Hub uses SharePoint Server’s social networking capabilities, such as blogs and discussion groups. In addition, it offers the Coach program, a change management feature to help you train end users to self-help, reducing the burden on your training and IT staff. The Coach program impacts productivity in a collaborative and positive way.
  
  The 2010 version of the Productivity Hub includes a quiz feature, a section called ‘Get it Done’ that offers training for tasks such as email management and collaboration, and also features Silverlight. However, instructions are also provided to use non-Silverlight web parts, if needed.
  
  What the Productivity Hub is:
  
  • Format: Pre-loaded SharePoint site collection, optimized for Web 2.0 functionality and easily deployed within SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint 2010 environment, depending on version
  • Content: Convenient end user productivity training in a variety of formats (documents, videos, podcasts, etc.). Receive free quarterly updates of content that you will learn about through the Productivity blog.
  • Blog: The Productivity blog offers tips and tricks for end user productivity. Use it as is, or your training staff can use the posts as their own to help them get started in running an internal blog.
  • Train the trainer: Includes IT/Manager section to aid with deployment of the site collection, and guidance to develop the Coach program
  • Products: Office (2007 & 2010), SharePoint (2007 & 2010), Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Project (2007 & 2010), Visio (2007 & 2010), Publisher (2007 & 2010), Live Meeting 2007, Communicator 2007, Groove 2007 and Lync 2010
  
  You can also download additional content packages that expand the training materials you can make available through the Hub.

Files

Status: Live This download is still available on microsoft.com. The downloads below will come directly from the Microsoft Download Center.

File	Size
ContentPack-1.exe SHA1: e16c4604b4e08414d667c3ab9a9fa79ab83b6b41	498.02 MB
ContentPack-2.exe SHA1: 724c16176216776612708213c6fd7a8619b0a434	497.20 MB
Microsoft_ProductivityHub_Customization_Guide2010a.docx SHA1: 95893c5a244235b42e5d440fb38f9791bdc88661	76 KB
Microsoft_Productivity_Hub_Installation_Guide.docx SHA1: 4fb3ac8827f0fca64de91b32fa0728998857a402	73 KB
ProductivityHub2010CoreInstall.exe SHA1: 45f35df3a7ba33129a14648dc16ae282c9a04ba7	10.90 MB
ProductivityHub_Content_IE9_May2011.EXE SHA1: 86f236290e39ce801267c025772b32f38d1922d3	5.07 MB
ProductivityHub_Content_Lync_May2011.EXE SHA1: 4d12b757197ed1d86d393b9975f354112355b608	45.28 MB
ProductivityHub_Content_Oct10_v2.zip SHA1: caaff520d4c8514119972f90f8769f41e98e29e6	569.39 MB
ProductivityHub_Content_SharePoint_Mar2011.EXE SHA1: 9c4c9c658db3905f8925e539d9fe238237ab6239	52.26 MB
ProductivityHub_Content_Windows_March2011_v3.exe SHA1: 3479a875402ad814ed602835b1997f382cf1d342	415.29 MB
ProductivityHub_Content_Windows_May2011.EXE SHA1: 677b06a20ffaf0fdb8e8e0457c77cf9f1df12ac1	14.62 MB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• Windows XP or later
  2007 Office System
  SharePoint Server 2010
  You will also need Silverlight for the 2010 version of the Hub. Check the installation guide for the correct version.
  Note: SharePoint 2010 SP1 requires a different version of the Hub that can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28178.

• SharePoint Server 2010 Installed
  The Microsoft Productivity Hub 2010 solution is packaged as a set of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 features with related content. To install the Productivity Hub solution, you must have Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 Standard edition or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise edition already installed and configured.
  
  This download offers you the benefits of registering with Microsoft. Click the Continue button near the top of this page to register. After you have gone through the registration process, you will be returned to this page to begin the download.
  
  Add-on Content Packages
  Periodically, content packages are added to this download page. These content packages will keep you up to date with the latest help files for Microsoft desktop applications. For example, the 1st content package contains more than 200 additional training materials that you can add to the Microsoft Productivity Hub. The package also includes materials for five new products -- Live Meeting, OneNote, Project, Publisher, and Visio -- as well as additional content for Access, Communicator, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word. Make sure to install the Hub and the default content before installing these content packs.
  
  Search
  To enable the search capabilities within the Productivity Hub, a Shared Services Provider must be associated with the Productivity Hub site collection and configured to search the Productivity Hub site collection.
  
  Disk Space
  Once installed, the solution consumes roughly 750 megabytes of disk space. The majority of this is content (e.g. large video files and Office System documents) which SharePoint manages via its content database.