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Free Chapter from Real World SharePoint 2010 book

Nov 15

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Our Real World SharePoint 2010 book is finally available now. One chapter each from 22 MVPs. That’s a lot of ‘expert’ content and hopefully will be beneficial for folks looking to get deep into SharePoint 2010 (this book is also available on the Kindle).

The chapter that I wrote in the book focused on ‘Automating Business Processes using InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010’. Wrox publishing has decided to make this chapter available to download for free here. Enjoy!

SharePoint Designer 2010 ebook on the Kindle

Nov 15

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Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 book now available on the Kindle:

Also available on the Nook and as an electronic eBook to read on other devices.

Electronic books – SharePoint Designer 2010 and Real World SharePoint 2010

Nov 11

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Since I have gotten my Kindle, I have become a huge fan of it! I wish I could read Everything on it. Bunch of folks have asked me at the past SharePoint Connections conference if SharePoint Designer 2010 is available on the Kindle. Answer: not yet… BUT… it is available on the Nook already and it’s available as a PDF download. Here are the links to it:

PDF – Adobe Digital Edition

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Beginning-SharePoint-Designer-2010.productCd-1118014936.html

Nook

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beginning-SharePoint-Designer-2010/Woodrow-W-Windischman/e/9781118013892/?itm=1&USRI=Beginning+SharePoint+Designer+2010

I also contributed one chapter to Real World SharePoint 2010 book. That book is also now available in Adobe format here:

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Real-World-SharePoint-2010-Indispensable-Experiences-from-23-SharePoint-MVPs.productCd-1118013239.html

Free Video Recordings from SharePoint Connections held at The Hague – Netherlands

Nov 10

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Lots of good free videos can be found on Channel 9. All have been recorded at the conference in The Hague – Netherlands.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/spc10

Videos from Andrew Connell, Ted Pattison, Scot Hillier, Steve Fox, Spence Harbar and many more. A couple of my presentations are available as well (one on Workflows and the other on Data Views). Enjoy!

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

Nov 03

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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