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SharePoint 2010 Products and Technologies
- Installing SharePoint Server 2010
This video shows the procedure to install and configure SharePoint Server 2010 all the way to creating your first Site Collection.
- Introduction to SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 and Report Builder 3.0
In this video, you will get an overview of SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 and the various Report Authoring tools that are available. You will learn how SharePoint 2010 can be integrated with Reporting Services. Also, you will be introduced to Report Builder 3.0, which is a free authoring tool, to create powerful no-code solutions, all managed and rendered using SharePoint 2010.
- 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.
- Navigating Office 365
This video serves as an introduction to getting into and around in Office 365. We get into the basic components that make up Office 365 and introduce you to the basic functions to administering the components. This video also includes introducing you to valuable resources available to you as a new Office 365 administrator, as well as introduction to the admin portal and even some adding and administration of users.
- Enable Anonymous access to SharePoint 2010 site
This video shows how you can enable anonymous access to a SharePoint 2010 site. Anonymous access is usually turned on when you wish your site to be accessible through the internet without anyone having to enter login credentials to enter. Keep in mind that before doing steps in this video, your IT department needs to turn on anonymous access at the IIS level and also need to open up the appropriate communication ports for exposing your portal on the internet.
- Customize Search Results using XSLT
The plain vanilla search results that SharePoint returns can be customized using XSLT. This video shows you how easy it is to make it happen.
- 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.
- Introducing External Content Types
External Content Types are the backbone of all Business Connectivity Service solutions. In this video we explore the various components that make up an External Content Type and how they are represented inside of SharePoint Designer.
- Modifying the look and feel of site pages
Main content of your SharePoint 2010 site pages makes up for 80% of what your users are interacting with. Making that content fit in with the rest of the site branding is easier than you think. In this module, learn how you can apply branding to list views and generic page content by using SharePoint Designer 2010.
- Setting up Site Collection Administrators
A site collection is administered by site collection administrators. You pick a primary and secondary site collection administrator when a site collection is first created. You can add more administrators afterwards if you like and this video shows you how to can do that. Keep in mind that site collection administrators can administer any site within the site collection even they have not been explicity given permissions to a site.
- Using the built-in Approval Workflow template
There are 5 workflow templates that ship out of the box with SharePoint Server 2010. You can use these templates to start creating workflows using the browser immediately. The template that's used the most among these is the Approval workflow template. This video demonstrates how you can make use of this workflow template to approve documents.
- Introduction to InfoPath 2010
This video introduces Microsoft InfoPath 2010 and demonstrates the features to start creating your first form. The features highlighted in the video are: page layout templates, layout tables, branding the form using themes, and placing labels and controls on the page to accept user input.
- 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.
- Publish InfoPath form to Form Library in SharePoint
A fully functional InfoPath form with pre-built logic is published to a new form library in SharePoint. Each step of the publishing process is explained in this video.
- Introduction to Reporting Services
In this video, you will get an overview of SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 and the various Report Authoring tools that are available. You will learn how SharePoint 2010 can be integrated with Reporting Services.
- Business Data Web Parts
SharePoint Server Enterprise ships with a number of built in Web Parts that surface External Content Types. In this video we show how to add and configure several Business Data Web Parts.
- Import Spreadsheet to Create a New List
Data from a spreadsheet can be imported directly in SharePoint to create a new List. SharePoint can automatically create the list columns for you and populate all of the spreadsheet data into the list. You can use this functionality with range of cells in the spreadsheet or with pre-defined named ranges or tables.
- Exploring a SharePoint Site
This video explores the makeup of a SharePoint site. The Quick Launch, Ribbon and Content Area of the site pages are discussed. Also, the navigation scheme of the sites is explored.
- Working with SharePoint Calendars
The Calendar list in SharePoint Team Site is a great way for a team, department or a company as a whole to list and manage their events. You can create as many calendar lists as you want on a site and use them for a variety of purposes. This video shows all different aspects of a calendar list - creating the list, events, managing list views, moving events, deploying to a page and more are all covered.
- Publishing Web Applications to SharePoint Access Services
Publishing a Web Application to an Access Services SharePoint site is a one click step. Or is it? Learn about the process of publishing and some hints on what to do if things don't happen as expected.
- Hide Quick Launch on a page
The left navigation pane on a team site shows the Quick Launch which display links to many lists and libraries on the site. If you need to, you can hide the Quick Launch completely by embedding some style tags on the page. This is accomplished using the Content Editor web part. Furthermore, you can export this web part and utilize them on other pages as needed.
- Changing the Theme of a Site
A Site's Theme provides the look and feel of a site. The colors, fonts, images can all be changed by applying a new Theme to a site. Themes are packages of styles and images that can be applied to a site. Keep in mind that Theme is specific to a site and is not inherited by its subsite. This video shows how you can customize a Theme using the browser and then apply it to a site.
SharePoint 2007 Products and Technologies
- Introduction to InfoPath 2007
InfoPath 2007 is a great way to create powerful electronic forms. No code is required to make these forms and configure logic within these forms. This video introduces you to the InfoPath 2007 environment.
- Publishing InfoPath forms to the Forms Server
Publish a form created using InfoPath 2007 to a Document Library in SharePoint server running InfoPath Forms Services.
- SharePoint Designer Overview
SharePoint Designer can be used in a WSS or MOSS environment to perform robust customizations to look and feel, and content for the site. This video provides an overview to Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
- Report on SharePoint List data using Data View Web Part
SharePoint Designer comes with a powerful web part called Data View. Use Data View to show list data from a SharePoint site. Also shown is how to connect multiple lists to create a data management solution.
- What is SharePoint?
SharePoint 2007 is a platform that you can use for collaboration, publishing, searching, analyzing data and much much more. This video walks you through some of the benefits of this wonderful product.
- SharePoint Architecture Planning
This video presents and talks through the architecture, pre-requisites and preparation required to plan for a WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 installation. It shows the supporting services required for the installation and also how to plan for the OS, IIS, and other requirements that serve as the necessity for planning a successful SharePoint deployment.
- Creating a SharePoint Site
SharePoint comes with multiple site templates. This video shows how to create a SharePoint site using those templates
- Introducing Document Management
Document Management is a robust feature in SharePoint. Learn the various capabilities that are offered out of the box by the document mangement features.
- What’s new in Windows SharePoint Services v3
An overview of what is new in Windows SharePoint Services v3 as compared to v2
- Customizing Current Navigation in WSS
Learn how to customize the Quick Launch navigation in Windows SharePoint Services
- Copying Lists between sites
Copying/Moving/Backing up lists. With or without data
- What’s new in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
An overview of what is new in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as opposed to the older version SharePoint Portal Server 2003
- Sync SharePoint Lists and Libraries with Outlook
Microsoft Office Outlook is the application of choice for many people to manage their mail, contacts, tasks, calendars and more. You can connect your SharePoint lists and libraries with Outlook and work directly from that environment. All of your data is synced back into SharePoint as you make changes to it in Outlook (and vice versa). You can also use Outlook to take your documents offline, and synchronize them back as needed.
Webinar Recordings
We conduct webinars every few weeks on a variety of SharePoint and InfoPath topics. The recordings of these webinars are available below to be watched free of charge. Enjoy!
| Webinar / Video Title | Abstract | Presenter |
| Webinar-Manage Projects with Project Server 2010 | In today’s project-centric work environment, the ability to coordinate multiple projects with distributed teams, and making high-level strategic decisions based upon consolidated project progress, risk and resource usage information is critical. Microsoft Project Server 2010 is an enterprise-wide project management platform designed to meet these challenges. In this session, you learn to optimize Project Server to manage enterprise projects | Dux Raymond Sy |
| Webinar-Using SharePoint Designer 2010 in the Real World | This session provides real world use cases and guidance that covers when it is safe to let your site administrators use SharePoint Designer 2010 (and also when it’s not safe). In addition, we will discuss the different level of privileges that should be granted to different groups of people in your organization. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – User Interfaces of SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2010 ships with a variety of functionality waiting to be discovered. You can easily build your collaboration based solutions directly on top of this platform without the need for any programming. You need just the browser to create your robust solutions with lists, libraries and other site components. But how do you know where to get started? This session shows the user interfaces of SharePoint 2010 and explains how easy it is to get started. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Make the Best Use of SharePoint Designer 2010 | Webinar originally conducted on 5/13/2010. Presenter: Asif Rehmani. This webinar starts with an explanation of why you would want to use SharePoint Designer 2010 instead of the browser to create your site components. Then the presentation digs deeper into showing how you can create powerful workflows. Subsequently, the last thing demonstrated is how easy it is to fetch data from a database and show on a SharePoint page. Along the way, there were many good questions that attendees asked and the attempt was made to answer as many as possible in the allotted time. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Leveraging Business Connectivity Services | Business Connectivity Services allows you to both read from and write data back to your external systems! BCS allows you to surface your external data in SharePoint AND inside of Office applications, meaning your data is that much more accessible! * One of the big stumbling blocks in getting started with the BDC was the lack of tooling support from Microsoft. With BCS, both SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 have first-class support for building solutions with the BCS. What’s even better, many common scenarios can be handled with just SharePoint Designer 2010, without needing a developer or Visual Studio | Raymond Mitchell |
| Webinar – Augmenting SharePoint Designer Workflows with Visual Studio 2010 | Generally the best story for creating custom workflows in SharePoint 2010 is to stick with the declarative and most productive option: use SharePoint Designer 2010. However there are situations when SharePoint Designer cannot achieve some business requirements. One common example is when you need to implement some sort of a loop. In this session, you’ll see what’s involved in creating a custom activity (action) in Visual Studio 2010 and deploy it to SharePoint so it can be used in SharePoint Designer based workflows. | Andrew Connell |
| 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. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, Visio 2010 and InfoPath 2010 | Forms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Companies usually rely on programmers to create the forms and workflows using code. Not anymore! With InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create powerful data driven form composite solutions on your SharePoint sites. InfoPath gives you the ability to pull data from databases and lists, and create forms with data validation and conditional formatting. SharePoint Designer’s workflows let you then design powerful multi-step workflows centered around the form collected data, building upon the out-of-the-box reusable workflows and even import workflow designs from Visio! In this presentation, you will see how these tools come together to design workflows and route forms across your organization for task assignment and approval. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 | SharePoint Designer 2010, which is a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this video, you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. You will also learn about the new user experience components such as the Ribbon and Summary Pages in SharePoint Designer 2010. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Effectively Leveraging Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success | Microsoft Project is a project management tool widely used by project managers today. Its’ ability to support project managers to define a schedule, assign resources to tasks and track project status has been instrumental in contributing to project success. However, it can be a challenge for a project manager to share project information and collaborate with the project team with Microsoft Project alone. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can complement Microsoft Project 2010 and address this gap. | Dux Raymond Sy |
| Webinar – How and where to deploy InfoPath 2010 forms | Webinar originally conducted on 6/3/2010. Presenter: Asif Rehmani Microsoft InfoPath 2010 and Forms Server 2010 come together to provide a powerful platform for electronic form generation. It’s crucial to your business to know how to use InfoPath most effectively. InfoPath forms can exist independently or they can be hosted on a server platform – like SharePoint. This session focuses on the various deployment options for the forms and provides guidance to help decide on the best deployment option for Your need! | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Best Practices and Limitations of creating Workflows using Visio and SharePoint Designer | SharePoint 2010 comes with the ability for creating workflows without programming using Visio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. This is a Giant step towards being able to easily visualize and work with your workflows using these products. So what can and can’t you do using these products? What are the best practices when working with them? This session covers these questions. Also, what if you need to be able to do more with workflows without programming and these products are not enough? We look at additional products in the market as well and how they all stack up. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Modifying SharePoint List Forms using SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath 2010 | To display, edit and insert data into SharePoint lists, you need to interact with the SharePoint list forms. The out-of-the-box SharePoint list forms are not always sufficient. Sometimes you need to modify the existing ones or better yet, create new ones. SharePoint Designer has been a great tool to customize SharePoint list forms for a long time. Now in SharePoint 2010, you can use InfoPath 2010 to customize the forms as well. What’s the difference? Why should you use one tool over the other for this purpose? This webinar shows you how each functionality works and explore the pros and cons of using each method to customize your SharePoint list forms. | Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Office 365: What you need to know! | Office 365 is the way to provide messaging, collaboration, web conferencing, document sharing and more to your organization – large and small. Simply put, it’s SharePoint 2010 in the cloud. Office 365 went Live on June 28th, 2011. This webinar focused on providing information you need to be successful making decisions regarding Office 365 . The functionality and administrative capabilities of Office 365 were demonstrated. | Mark Kashman |
| Webinar-SharePoint Branding and User Interface Design | Compelling and user friendly interface of your SharePoint solution is one of the key factors in successful adoption of your intranet or internet site. This webinar gives you a solid understanding of how you can improve user interface and brand your site with visual elements you have seen online or have been provided by a professional design team. | Yaroslav Pentsarskyy |
| Webinar-Q&A Panel with SharePoint Experts | Panel of SharePoint Experts: Richard Wixom Russell Wright Eric Eaton Asif Rehmani In this webinar, demonstrations and discussions were conducted by the panelists. Some of the topics talked about in the panel: SharePoint Calendar sharing SharePoint Designer in Production Data View web part Using PowerShell to list all SharePoint sites and subsites Printing of SharePoint list data Downloading more than one file at a time without a 3rd party add-on Checking permissions for a user InfoPath 2010 resources And more… | Richard Wixom, Russell Wright, Eric Eaton, Asif Rehmani |
| Webinar – Smart Storage for SharePoint | Webinar originally conducted on 9/18 /2009. Presenter: Wendy Henry (Author of Storage Considerations for Microsoft SharePoint) Host: Asif Rehmani Today’s business users demand better, faster collaboration networks and Microsoft SharePoint is poised to fit their needs. But many SharePoint implementations disappoint over time due to inefficient storage and insufficient data availability. Don’t let this happen! This webinar shows you the secrets of choosing and growing an appropriate storage platform for your SharePoint environment to gain the most return on your investment. We examine SharePoint’s unique storage requirements and discuss how to scale your disk hardware to reduce contention, throttle bandwidth usage, improve data availability and establish redundant data for archiving or disaster recovery. | Wendy Henry |
| Webinar – SharePoint Designer Data Views | Webinar originally conducted on 10/1/2009. Presenter: Asif Rehmani SharePoint Designer 2007 can be used to integrate data from a variety of sources into a single integrated solution. This session demonstrates how the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer can be used for the task of retrieving data from SharePoint Lists. Also shown is how data in multiple lists can be connected to produce a unified view of related information. That’s not all, also demonstrated is how you can make this view editable to commit any data changes back to the data source… All without a single line of code! | Asif Rehmani |
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.
