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 and please help spread the word about this free resource. Thanks!

2010 Products and Technologies

• 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.

• 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.

• Webinar - Leveraging Business Connectivity Services

  Most of you have probably heard of the Business Data Catalog (BDC) that shipped with SharePoint 2007; it is a component that allows you to use external data inside of SharePoint. What you may not know is that in SharePoint 2010, the BDC got a new name: Business Connectivity Services (BCS). Microsoft changed more than just the name in 2010 though: * While the BDC was only available to customers with the Enterprise license of SharePoint 2007, the BCS is available to all versions of SharePoint 2010, including SharePoint Foundation! * The BDC only let you read data from your external systems but the BCS allows you to both read from and write data back to your external systems! * The BDC allowed you to surface your external data in SharePoint but the 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 the 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

2007 Products and Technologies

• 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.

• 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!