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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

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.

Video on using Developer Dashboard to analyze SharePoint page performance

Sep 02

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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

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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.

Download the Video Article Package on Introduction to SharePoint 2010

Aug 16

Asif RehmaniSharePoint SharePoint 2010, Videos 2 Comments

We have created and made available for download a video article package on Introduction to SharePoint 2010. This article has a total of 5 videos, each about 10 minutes long. This package is available at no cost to you. So what’s the catch you ask…? Well, the only thing we request is that you help us spread the word about it. So go ahead and feel free to forward this email to others or download the video article package and share it on your intranet or file share.

Here’s the location of the download:
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/free-video-article/

Video on Chart web part to visualize your data

Jul 29

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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.