The Chart web part is shipped with SharePoint Server 2010 – Enterprise. It can be used to visualize your data with a variety of types of charts (bar graphs, pie charts, etc). This video shows how you can use this web part to visualize data in an excel spreadsheet through Excel Services.

Watch the video on Chart Web Part that explains this functionality.

This video is available for free until 7/30/2010.

These videos were posted on July 26, 2010. More videos coming later this week. Check out the list of all new videos on the site.

Working with SharePoint Security Groups

The built in SharePoint security groups are explored in this video – Owners, Members, Visitors and Viewers. It is shown how the user experience changes when you add them to one or more of these groups. Also, some best practice guidance is provided to help you get started with these groups.

Edit List and Library content in Datasheet view

The datasheet view provides an Excel/Access type of spreadsheet view which you can use to modify list or library data. You can use this view to quickly modify items or copy and paste items in the list/library. Also, you can modify this view as you need by resizing or moving around the columns as you would do in Excel/Access.

Modifying the Top Link Bar

The top link bar of a site can be customized to your needs. By default, it shows any subsites that the site has, but you can also customize it to show other SharePoint content or even external content. Watch this video to see a demonstration of all the available options.

Change Links in Quick Launch navigation

The links on the left hand navigation (also referred to as the Quick Launch bar) can be changed in a few different ways. You can link to items internal and external to your site from the Quick Launch bar. This video goes in detail to discuss the different options that you have. Also, the option of seeing your site items in a Tree View control is demonstrated as well.

A major new capability in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to create Document Sets. A document set is just what it sounds like – a set or package of documents defined as one entity. For example, a loan mortgage application packet could be considered a document set within which you would have individual documents such as personal information, existing properties you own, loan rate declaration etc. Each of these documents could be of any type, but together they make up the document set. This video shows the process of creating a new document set from scratch.

Watch the video on Creating Document Sets that explains this functionality.

This video is available for free until 7/28/2010.

These videos have been posted today on the SharePoint-Videos.com site.

• Utilize Content Types to define and organize your content

  Organizations create multiple types of content. For example, in any business, you have expense reports and status reports that need to be filled out by employees. In other organizations, you might have legal contracts, marketing proposals and more. You can get a handle on all this type of content and organize and manage it throughout your organization, utilizing content types in SharePoint.

• Utilizing Site Columns

  Site columns are reusable column definitions. They are template of columns which are defined at the site level as opposed to list columns which are created one at a time to be used in a list or library. Watch this video to learn why you would want to use site columns and how exactly to utilize them.

• Enforce Column Relationship in Lookup Columns

  Lookup columns offer the capability to enforce column relationships and referential integrity. Two types of relationship behavior can be set: Restrict Delete or Cascade Delete. Both of these settings and their impacts are demonstrated in this video.

• Configuring Lookup Columns

  Lookup column is a very powerful type of column that can be used in any list or library to get information from another list or library on the site. This functionality can be used to centralize and protect your information (for example list of your Customers) and then do a lookup to it from various lists and libraries. This video goes more in depth to show how you can allow multiple values to be selected or enforce unique values in the lookup column.

• Working with List and Library Columns

  When working with a list or library, you want to first make sure that you have the columns configured properly. There are many types of columns that you can create. This video shows how you can create new list/library columns and use that information to filter the data in a list or library.

This webinar will be held on July 15, 2010 at 2 – 3pm Eastern.

Applies to SharePoint Foundation 2010

So you got your SharePoint 2010 Team Site… now what? How should you proceed to set it up? What should be the things to look out for and to not do? Join us in this session to learn some best practices on how to start up with your team site. You will learn the best practices about setting up your quick launch, top link bar, company/department logo, creating and setting up lists and libraries and more (as the time allows).

In addition, we will set aside the last 20 minutes to answer your questions.

If you would like to join us, register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/404190368

The SharePoint 2010 Fundamentals DVD was released today. It’s packed with the core knowledge needed to start out successfully with SharePoint 2010.

The target audience for this DVD: Site Administrators Site Designers Site Members

SharePoint topics covered include:

• Creating SharePoint sites
• Customizing site structure
• Customizing navigation components
• Setting up site security
• Making use of the built in Lists
• Creating custom lists
• Understanding the document management options
• Understanding Site Columns and Content Types
• and more..

There is also now a complete DVD bundle available for SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath 2010.

A couple of months ago, some of our videos were contributed to the TechNet site. One of them is currently highlighted on TechNet’s home page:

The remaining can be found when you go to the SharePoint Server 2010 section of the TechNet library:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262880.aspx

These are all free of course so check them out!

Have you checked out our videos presenting no-code solutions on SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath at YouTube? If not, here is the URL to it. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/user/asifrehmani.

I had the pleasure of meeting the folks from RepliWeb early this year. They gave me a tour of their application (RepliWeb Operations Suites for SharePoint – ROSS) and I thought it was Fantastic! So I decided to create a video explaining its functionality briefly and how it can help You in your business! Hope you love it as much as I did.

Here’s the story about ROSS – When using SharePoint as a Development Platform for intranet, extranet, and internet sites, organizations are encouraged to stand up a multi-stage topology (example: Development, Staging, Production). This multi-stage architecture can present challenges when managing updates within the Content & Application Lifecycle. This video reviews a 3rd party solution called ‘ROSS’ by RepliWeb which is built to streamline the deployment/replication of content, solutions, and other functional artifacts across SharePoint Farms. Check out the short video demonstration of the product here: http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/repliweb-operations-suite-for-sharepoint/.

If you need to get connected to the RepliWeb folks, let me know and I can make the introductions.

Our next webinar is on Thursday, June 24th from 2 to 3 pm Eastern. Here’s more detail about the webinar:

User Interfaces of SharePoint 2010

Skill Level – 100 (Beginner)

SharePoint 2010 ships with a variety of functionality waiting to be discovered. You can easily build your collaboration based solutions directly on top of this platform without the need for any programming. You need just the browser to create your robust solutions with lists, libraries and other site components. But how do you know where to get started? This session will dive into the user interfaces of SharePoint 2010 to show you how easy it is to get started.

This is an interactive webinar so bring your questions with you. I will try to answer your questions to the best of my ability. If you would like to join me, here is the link to sign up:
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/850656289