Here is a agglomeration of free webcast tutorials on SharePoint for Developers.

You need to click on the following link to view a list of videos:SharePoint Videos

Is also called . SharePoint is not a single product – truly it is a cluster of products that include these:

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

SharePoint can 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:

  • Document libraries
  • Web parts
  • Lists

History:

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. (Vista users can use a helper application from Bamboo Nation to allow them to run SharePoint without having to have Windows Server installed.) Services such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provide additional functionality and features and are licensed accordingly.

SharePoint Suite of Products:

SharePoint includes these components:

  • Search Server 2008
  • Forms Server 2007
  • 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
  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
  • Search Server 2008 Express

SharePoint is not just a single use solution that replaces a full file server. Instead, it is geared and positioned to play many and various roles in the business and enterprise environment. These assorted solutions that SharePoint provides fall under three different heads: Collaboration, Processes, and People.

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

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 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:

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:

Tagged with: • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Filed under: Letter Buzz

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!