We have spent some time, recently, building the content type, and workflow demonstrated by Eric Eaton in our Project Task Tracking video tutorial. This video tutorial can be viewed by anyone with a subscription to SharePoint-Videos.com. This video is also available as part of our SharePoint 2010 Project Management videos tutorial DVD. This DVD can […]
Understanding Search Architecture for SharePoint Server 2010
Search is a very popular user feature of any SharePoint computing platform. SharePoint Server 2010 is no exception. SharePoint administrators need to understand the unique architecture for SharePoint search to properly scale infrastructure to support it. In a video tutorial titled SharePoint search architecture and scaling, Robert Piddocke, an acknowledged subject matter expert and published […]
Outfit SharePoint Central Administration with an Encrypted Web Page
It’s possible to expose Central Administration features for SharePoint Server 2010 to no more than a select group of authorized users with an encrypted web page. A number of companies offer SSL certificates, which, for a price, can be used to add the encryption method. But for testing purposes why not build a certificate at […]
Building Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010
For enterprise business users who are determined to reduce the development costs usually associated with building automated systems, a computing platform that includes SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 should be carefully considered for implementation. The workflow feature of SharePoint Designer 2010 can be used to build many applications at a fraction of the […]
Inserting Web Part Pages into SharePoint 2010 Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010
In August, 2005 the Microsoft Technet site added the following note to its library: About Web Parts (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0). This note includes the following definition of a web part: “[a] Web Part is a Microsoft ASP.NET server control that serves a particular purpose, such as displaying data from a spreadsheet or streaming stock […]
Managing SharePoint Server 2010 Includes Many Procedures Specific to Information Lists
SharePoint Server 2010 is all about information, typically data stored in document repositories within sub sites of the larger SharePoint 2010 farm. Lists provide an important tool for categorizing information and serving it to SharePoint users. Further, lists of information for SharePoint 2010 provide users with genuine opportunities to collaborate. In order to create lists […]
SharePoint Designer 2010 Provides an Effective Method of Attractively Branding SharePoint Sites
Early versions of Microsoft SharePoint Designer took on the reputation of a web design wrecking ball. Internet discussions about the versions of SharePoint Designer that predated SharePoint Designer 2010 are rich with mentions of broken SharePoint sites as the result of using SharePoint Designer (aka for those older versions as Microsoft FrontPage) to build site […]
SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator Training is Easily Provisioned with Instructional Videos
Our unlimited subscription offer for training SharePoint Server 2010 Administrators can be a highly valuable investment when compared to in-class training alternatives, etc. At a per user cost of $39.50 per year for each of 100 users, the cost of our subscription is less than the cost of providing each of these 100 SharePoint Server […]