SharePoint Videos for Developers
Here is a heap of free webcast tutorials on SharePoint for Developers.
You must click on the following website to look at a library of webcasts:SharePoint Videos
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Is another name for SharePoint. SharePoint is a cluster of products that include the following:
- Process management modules
- Search modules and a document-management platform
- Web browser based collaboration functions
SharePoint may be used to host web sites that access:
- Shared workspaces
- Host defined applications such as wikis and blogs
- Information stores
- Documents
All users can manipulate or interact with:
- Lists
- Document libraries
- Web parts
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SharePoint refers to a base platform and a variety of services. The platform is Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), which is included with Windows Server and available as a free download for those with Windows Server licenses. (If you have Vista, but do not have Windows Server, you can use a free download from Bamboo nation to allow you to run SharePoint.) Services such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provide additional functionality and features and are licensed accordingly.
SharePoint Products:
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Here are the current SharePoint products and technologies:
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
- Search Server 2008 Express
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Standard
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Enterprise
- Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
- Search Server 2008
- Forms Server 2007
SharePoint, as a collection of technologies, is not intended to simply replace a full file server or to be a single use solution. Too the contrary, SharePoint delivers many solutions and each person is free to choose which ones to implement. These several solutions that SharePoint provides fall under three different heads: Collaboration, Processes, and People.
The SharePoint user interface is a web interface accessed through a browser. While all browsers are supported, only Internet Explorer is fully integrated and able to utilize the full functionality of a SharePoint Solution.
SharePoint sites are functionally ASP.NET 2.0 web applications, which are served using IIS and use a SQL Server database as a data storage back end. All site content data, such as items in document libraries and lists, are stored within an SQL database named by default as “WSS_Content_ID”.
Microsoft Search Server:
Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft. It builds on the search capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. MSS is based on the Windows Search platform, and they both use the same querying engine and indexer. MOSS search allows one to search metadata attached to documents.
Microsoft has made Microsoft Search Server available as Search Server 2008, published March 2008. There is a free variation available. It is called Search Server 2008. The exprss edition is limited to a stand-alone installation and cannot be scaled out to a cluster.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer is a free WYSIWYG HTML Editor that administrators can use to customize the design of the SharePoint site and that end users can use in designing workflows. SharePoint Designers is the successor to Microsoft FrontPage and replaces it.
More Resources:
- Windows SharePoint Services
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- SharePoint Server Role in Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Momentum: Midsize Business Center Newsletter
- White Paper describes how different versions of Office work with Sharepoint
- SharePoint Designer Home Page
- Sharepoint Community Portal