Here is a cluster of free video tutorials on SharePoint for Developers.

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Is another name for SharePoint. SharePoint is genuinely a name for a grouping of products that includes:

  • Process management modules
  • Search modules and a document-management platform
  • Web browser based collaboration functions

SharePoint can be used to host web sites that access:

  • Information stores
  • Documents
  • Host defined applications such as wikis and blogs
  • Shared workspaces

All users can manipulate or interact with:

  • Lists
  • Document libraries
  • Web parts

Background:

The term “SharePoint” can collectively refer to a number of products ranging from the base platform to various 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 do not have Windows Server and you are a Vista user, you can use a Bamboo Nation free product to run SharePoint.) Services such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provide additional functionality and features and are licensed accordingly.

SharePoint Collection of Products:

SharePoint includes these components:

  • 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 is not just a single use solution that replaces a full file server. Instead, it is geared and positioned to play several roles in the business and enterprise environment. Microsoft markets these vectors as Collaboration, Processes, and People.

Users access SharePoint through a web browser. All browsers are supported, but only Internet Explorer provides you with full functionality.

SharePoints sites are really ASP.NET 2.0 web sites that use a SQL Server database and that server by IIS. 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 shares its architectural underpinnings with the Windows Search platform for both the querying engine as well as the indexer. MOSS search provides the ability to search metadata attached to documents.

Microsoft has made Microsoft Search Server available as Search Server 2008, published March 2008. A free variation, Search Server 2008 Express, is also available. The exprss edition is limited to a stand-alone installation and cannot be scaled out to a cluster.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer:

Administrators can customize SharePoint sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. It is a free WYSIWYG HTML Editor that replaces Microsoft FrontPage.

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