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Free SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath 2010 Videos
- Creating a Workflow on a List using SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint Designer can be used to create powerful workflows on your site. You can create workflows on a list or library, create reusable workflows or create site based workflows. This video focuses on creating list workflows. While showing you how to create a list workflow, the various capabilities of the workflow designer environment (such as steps, conditions, actions, parallel branching, moving actions around etc) are explained so you can take full advantage of this robust environment.
- Webinar - Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Team Sites - Best Practices
So you got your SharePoint 2010 Team Site… now what? How should you proceed to set it up? What should be the things to look out for and to not do? This session explores best practices on how to start up with your team site. Setting up your quick launch, top link bar, company/department logo, creating and setting up lists and libraries and more are discussed here. In addition, the last 20 minutes cover Q&A from attendees.
- Versioning settings in Document Libraries
Document libraries provide the ability to have documents with both major and minor versions. A major version is usually a document that has been published while a minor version is still in draft state and being worked upon. The draft items can be set to be invisible to readers of the site. You will see in this video how to configure versioning settings and the best methods to utilize them.
- Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010 is the premier tool to configure and customize SharePoint 2010. It has evolved from SharePoint Designer 2007 with a totally new look and feel to it. This video shows how you can navigate around the SPD 2010 environment.
- Use the Chart Web Part to visualize data from Excel spreadsheet
The Chart web part is shipped with SharePoint Server 2010 - Enterprise. It can be used to visualize your data with a variety of types of charts (bar graphs, pie charts, etc). This video shows how you can use this web part to visualize data in an excel spreadsheet through Excel Services.
- Utilize Content Types to define and organize your content
Organizations create multiple types of content. For example, in any business, you have expense reports and status reports that need to be filled out by employees. In other organizations, you might have legal contracts, marketing proposals and more. You can get a handle on all this type of content and organize and manage it throughout your organization, utilizing content types in SharePoint.
- Creating a SharePoint 2010 Site
There are several site templates available that let you create a new SharePoint 2010 site. This video shows a couple of different ways of how you can create a site, within a site collection, using those templates.
- Getting Started with a SharePoint Site
Get maximum benefit out of your SharePoint site by learning how you can administer it. This video shows where you change the permissions for the site, modify its Theme, change the site icon and setup the quick launch menu. After doing all of that, you will want to change the content of the page which is also demonstrated in this video.
Free SharePoint 2007, SharePoint Designer 2007 and InfoPath 2007 Videos
- Backup and Restore Sites using SharePoint Designer
This video shows how entire SharePoint Sites can be backed up from one location and then restored at another location using SharePoint Designer 2007.
- Create Custom Lists
Create Custom Lists in SharePoint if you want to create a list from scratch. Define your own custom columns and the type of data that you wish to store in each column
- Control Content Approval and Publishing on a Library with Approval Workflow
Learn how to route a document through the Approval Workflow process. Configure the workflow so that once it is completed successfully, the Content Approval column is automatically marked as Approved.
- Convert Excel Documents to InfoPath
This video shows how you can use out of the box conversion tools to convert Excel Workbooks to InfoPath forms
- Using the Recycle Bin
The first layer of protection for you list and library items in a site is the built in recycle bin. Watch this video to learn how the two tier recycle bin works in SharePoint.
- Copying Lists between sites
Copying/Moving/Backing up lists. With or without data
- Subscribing to List or Library RSS feeds
RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is very prevalant throughout SharePoint. Learn how to use RSS in SharePoint lists and libraries
- Using the Disposition Approval Workflow
This Video demos the Expiration Policy feature of the Records Management functionality in SharePoint Server 2007. In particular, the Disposition Approval Workflow is implemented as part of the Information Management Policy to properly dispose of the document once its specified retention period has been reached.
- Move an Access 2007 Table to a SharePoint List
Access 2007 is a very robust client application. However, at times it is better to move your data from Access to SharePoint so anyone can browse to it easily using just a web browser. This video shows how you can make that happen by transferring an Access 2007 table directly as a SharePoint List.
Recommended Vendor Solutions
- RepliWeb Operations Suite for SharePoint
When using SharePoint as a Development Platform for intranet, extranet, and internet sites, organizations are encouraged to stand up a multi-stage topology (example: Development, Staging, Production). This multi-stage architecture can present challenges when managing updates within the Content & Application Lifecycle. This video reviews a 3rd party solution called ‘ROSS’ by RepliWeb which is built to streamline the deployment/replication of content, solutions, and other functional artifacts across SharePoint Farms. For more info - http://www.repliweb.com.


