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

Be sure to click on the following site to view a list of webcasts:SharePoint Videos

Is another name for SharePoint. SharePoint encompasses the following products and services:

  • 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:

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

All users can manipulate or interact with:

  • Web parts
  • Document libraries
  • 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.

SharePoint Collection 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, as a collection of technologies, is not intended to simply replace a full file server or to be a single use solution. Instead, it is geared and positioned to play many 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.

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 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 heir apparent to Microsoft FrontPage and replaces it.

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