Here is a cluster of free online videos on SharePoint for Developers.
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Here is a collection of free webcast tutorials on SharePoint for Developers.
Please click on the following link to look at a catalog of webcasts:SharePoint Videos
SharePoint Also goes by the name of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. SharePoint 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 is not just one product. Rather it is a variety of products that range from a base platform to a wide 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:
SharePoint consists of these divisions:
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
- Search Server 2008 Express
- Forms Server 2007
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Standard
- Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
- Search Server 2008
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Enterprise
SharePoint is not meant to be a single use solution that replaces a full file server. Too the contrary, SharePoint delivers many solutions and each person is free to choose which ones to implement. 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 version, 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 heir to Microsoft FrontPage and replaces it.