Here is a heap of free webcasts on SharePoint for Developers.

You must click on the following site to look at a list of videos:SharePoint Videos

Also goes by the name of . SharePoint encompasses the following products and services:

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

SharePoint may 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:

  • Document libraries
  • Web parts
  • Lists

Background:

SharePoint is a collection of products that range from the base platform to 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.

Products Included in the SharePoint Family:

SharePoint subsists of these parts:

  • 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 meant to be a single use solution that replaces a full file server. Rather, SharePoint provides a variety of solutions to numerous problems in the business world. 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.

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 express edition features the same feature set as the commercial edition, including no limitation on the number of files indexed. However, it 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 offspring to Microsoft FrontPage and replaces it.

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