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SharePoint Project Management guru Dux Raymond Sy to deliver a webinar on Nov 11th

Nov 03

Asif RehmaniEvents Project 2010 No Comments

Leveraging Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 is a win-win situation. However, I have seen many people struggle to understand how to get started. If you are one of them, join us at this webinar to find out how and get your questions answered. Dux Raymond Sy is The Guru on this stuff.

Dux will be presenting a webinar (sponsored by SharePoint-Videos.com) on Nov 11th 2 – 3:15pm Eastern. Here is a direct link to register for the webinar:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/817015209

Hope you can join us!

The SharePoint Designer 2010 Book with all the answers

Nov 03

Asif RehmaniSharePoint Designer SharePoint Designer 2010 No Comments

Well… hopefully all the answers . Our SharePoint Designer 2010 book went on sale a couple of days ago. It’s been awesome to work with Woody, Bryan and Marcy to write this book.

Only time will tell how good it does in the market. However, in my humble opinion, I think everyone who is using or planning to use SharePoint Designer 2010 should pick up a copy (and I’m honestly not saying this because 0.0001% of the book proceeds will come my way ).

Anyway, the chapters that I contributed to the book dealt with the following subjects:

• Workflows (fundamentals and advanced functionality – 2 chapters)
• XSLT List and Data Views
• InfoPath

Even though the book is called ‘Beginning’ SharePoint Designer 2010, it honestly is not only for beginners. If you are looking to start from scratch or you already have been using SPD 2007 or SPD 2010 for a while, either way it will help for sure! There is a lot of good content that we have all tried to put in this book. Some of it is not available anywhere else on the web (that I was able to find at least).

If you do happen to pick up a copy, I would like to request that if you get a chance, please write a review of it on Amazon. Appreciate it! Happy reading!

Free SharePoint Designer 2010 videos at Office.com

Oct 20

Asif RehmaniSharePoint Designer SharePoint Designer 2010, Videos 1 Comment

SharePoint-Videos.com has contributed 5 videos to the SharePoint Designer 2010 section at Office.com. You can watch them for free by clicking on the ‘Videos’ link at the SharePoint Designer help page here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/

There are 10 free videos on this page. The first 5 have been created by the SharePoint Designer team at Microsoft. The last 5 are contributed by SharePoint-Videos.com. Here are the topics for the last 5:

• Create Web Part connections using SharePoint Designer 2010
• Get to data using Web Services in SharePoint Designer 2010
• Configure site security using SharePoint Designer 2010
• Customize workflow forms using InfoPath 2010
• Publish globally reusable workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010

SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users

Sep 29

Asif RehmaniGeneral SharePoint 2010 No Comments

The lack of end user adoption is one of the main reasons that most SharePoint projects fail. That is a fact! If the end user working with SharePoint has a ‘cheat sheet’ that they can look through for the common tasks that they need to accomplish in SharePoint, it would increase their comfort level tremendously.

This is exactly what the SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users, written by SharePoint MVP Robert Bogue, offers. A quick and easy reference for the most common end user tasks within SharePoint. It’s definitely worth checking out to see how this can help your organization.

Free Webinar Recordings and Guest Videos

Sep 23

Asif RehmaniGeneral Videos No Comments

At SharePoint-Videos.com, we have always maintained a page which shows about a dozen of our videos for free. Now, in addition to that, we have also opened up recordings of all our previous webinars on the same page as well. Also, we have a couple of guest videos posted there. The first one is from Raymond Mitchell – a prominent SharePoint guru and a speaker at SharePoint conferences. Raymond presents how you can customize search results using XSLT. The second one is from Lee Reed – a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturdays around the country, Lee is focused on assisting companies to leverage their technology investments. Lee presents how you can enable anonymous access on your SharePoint sites. You’ll find both of these under the ‘free videos’ tab on the site.

Free Webinar on creating Workflows using Visio and SharePoint Designer

Sep 14

Asif RehmaniEvents Webinar No Comments

Skill level: 200 (Intermediate)
Audience: Business Analysts, Site Administrators, Developers

SharePoint 2010 comes with the ability for creating workflows without programming using Visio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. This is a Giant step towards being able to easily visualize and work with your workflows using these products. So what can and can’t you do using these products? What are the best practices when working with them? This session will cover these questions. Also, what if you need to be able to do more with workflows without programming and these products are not enough? We’ll look at additional options in the market as well.

In addition, we will set aside the last 15 minutes to answer your questions.

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/423175096

Video on using Developer Dashboard to analyze SharePoint page performance

Sep 02

Asif RehmaniSharePoint Videos No Comments

A feature in SharePoint 2010 called Developer Dashboard lets you analyze performance of your SharePoint pages. It is not only useful for developers, as the name suggests, but can also be used by IT professionals and site administrators to monitor how their site is performing and analyze for bottlenecks.

*Applies to SharePoint 2010

Watch the video on Developer Dashboard that explains this functionality.

This video is available for free until 9/6/2010 then it will be returned to subscribers only area.

Video on Setting up Site Collection Administrators

Aug 30

Asif RehmaniSharePoint Videos No Comments

A site collection is administered by site collection administrators. You pick a primary and secondary site collection administrator when a site collection is first created. You can add more administrators afterwards if you like and this video shows you how to can do that. Keep in mind that site collection administrators can administer any site within the site collection even they have not been explicitly given permissions to a site.

*Applies to SharePoint 2010

Watch the video on Setting up Site Collection Admins that explains this functionality.

This video is available for free until 9/2/2010 then it will be returned to subscribers only area.

My Slide Decks from Best Practices Conference #BPC2010

Aug 25

Asif RehmaniEvents Conferences No Comments

I’m all done with my two sessions at the Best Practices Conference. Here are the slide decks for them if you are interested:

Making the Best use of SharePoint Designer 2010

Creating SharePoint List Forms – When to use InfoPath 2010 or SharePoint Designer 2010

Passing out Free Videos DVD at #BPC2010 Best Practices Conference

Aug 23

Asif RehmaniEvents, SharePoint Conferences No Comments

At my two sessions here at the Best Practices Conference in DC, I’ll be passing out free copies of the SharePoint Videos Demo DVD.

My Conference sessions:

• Make the Best use of SharePoint Designer 2010
• Creating SharePoint List Forms – When to use InfoPath 2010 or SharePoint Designer 2010

If you get a chance, come get a copy.