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How to make the most of your business by using Sharepoint. MP3 file (9MB).

Online Sharepoint training courses from Microsoft.

Online Sharepoint documentation from Microsoft.

Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.

Use this document to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 side-by-side with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, so you can use the exciting new features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 without breaking the integration between Windows SBS and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0.

This document provides answers to commonly asked questions and includes useful tips and tricks for using blogs in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Before you can upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must run the Prescan.exe utility against your existing Web sites. This pre-upgrade scan tool scans your sites and reports issues, allowing you to fix any errors before you perform an upgrade.

Application templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They also provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to build deeper SharePoint-based solutions. The templates make use of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 capabilities and are compatible with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to help make customization easier.

Watch this demo for an introduction on how to use a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site to store, track, and share information with your team.

Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Windows SharePoint Services.

Office Online has provided a test environment which also includes Sharepoint. It says test drive the 2007 Microsoft Office release, but SharePoint is included in the test drive. The Test Drive environment will open in a new browser window after you click the Launch Test Drive button.

The purpose of this template is to enable information office workers to self-restore documents that are incidentally deleted from a protected document library using the document library interface in the browser where the deletion occurred. Users can delete items and subsequently restore them without requiring a recent database backup or the restoration of the entire content database. This functionality is packaged in an all encompassing STP file that can be imported into a list template gallery so Web Designers+ within a site collection can immediately begin creating protected document libraries.

Stream or Download any of the the SharePoint screencasts to your computer. Click to play or right click and select Save Target As to download the screencast to your machine.  Each one is relatively short in length and demonstrates a particular task within SharePoint.

Get involved with others working on and with Sharepoint. Here's you'll find a huge number of resources from people actually working with Sharepoint.

See Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in action. This demo provides an overview of the technology and shows how Windows SharePoint Services enables people to share information and stay connected with innovative tools for collaboration. Find out how SharePoint sites and workspaces can help streamline business processes and increase team productivity.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes the Stsadm tool for command-line administration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 servers and sites. Stsadm is located at the following path on the drive where SharePoint Products and Technologies is installed: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin. You must be an administrator on the local computer to use Stsadm.

This book provides basic information about capabilities of and requirements for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The audiences for this book include application specialists, line-of-business application specialists, information architects, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are just starting to learn about Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and want a quick introduction plus installation steps.

This guide describes the planning activities that are necessary to successfully deploy Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to a server computer or server farm. The audiences for this guide include information architects, IT generalists, and program managers who are planning to host Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites.

This guide provides planning recommendations for deploying Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in an extranet environment. It discusses the extranet topologies that are supported and details the hardening requirements for servers within an extranet environment. The audiences for this guide include information architects, IT generalists, and program managers who are planning to make Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites accessible from the Internet.

From Joel Olsen's Sharepoint land blog.

The Product and Marketing Requirements Planning application template enables teams to manage the process of collecting and documenting requirements for new products. The site provides several Microsoft Office 2007 templates providing useful techniques for Marketing, Product and Steering committee actions as well as a template for meeting notes and financial information.

This white paper describes how different versions of Microsoft Office programs work together with the 2003 and 2007 versions of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

SharePoint is Microsoft's collaboration platform and is the technology used by the Microsoft Dynamics portal products. This session will introduce you to the basics of SharePoint and how the SharePoint product family can help improve collaboration, search, productivity and document management. We'll explain the differences between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and SharePoint for Search. What You Will Learn: High level overview of Office SharePoint Server 2007 core capabilities: ECM, collaboration, portals, search, BI, BPM/workflow; description of composite applications, based on Office SharePoint Sever 2007 as a business platform; examples of organizations deploying and benefiting from Office SharePoint Server 2007.

This is the x86 version of SharePoint Server 2007 Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions. The downloads on this page include the original release of SharePoint Server 2007 Trial (OfficeServer.exe) and the original release of SharePoint Server 2007 Trial with Service Pack 1 included (OfficeServerwithSP1.exe).

Microsoft Technet Sharepoint library

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services is a free, easy-to use version of SQL Server Express that includes more features and makes it easier than ever to start developing powerful data-driven applications for web or local desktop development.

Video uploaded from Office user community to Microsoft Office Labs based on Sharepoint.

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains two new functions - the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and a Stsadm operation to update alert emails after a Web application has changed URLs.

Multiple calendars giving you multiple headaches? Stop juggling back and forth and start seeing your calendars all together — in Outlook 2007. When you link your calendar from a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site to Outlook 2007, you can view and work with the SharePoint calendar right alongside your Outlook calendar. When you make changes in one calendar, the two calendars are synchronized automatically. You can overlay the calendars to make viewing your complete schedule even easier. You can download the demo here any time you like.

With Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can build sophisticated no-code solutions such as Data Views, reports, and workflow tracking quickly and easily by using menus, task panes, and templates.
This six-part training demo series provides information on how power users can get the most from Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Understand from other IT resellers how to sell Windows Sharepoint.

This datasheet provides a quick overview of the key benefits of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Included in This Document

Collaborate Easily and Effectively
Get Started Quickly
Deploy a Manageable Infrastructure
Provide a Foundation for Web-Based Applications

Reference site for information about getting started with Sharepoint v3.0. Many good articles to assist getting up and running with Windows Sharepoint v3.0

You can use a blog to improve communication in your workplace. The blog authors can post information such as updates on benefits changes, promotions of seminars, and detailed information on policies. Employees can post their questions or comments and see the responses from the blog author.

A dashboard is a special Web Part Page that displays business data from a variety of different sources in high-level visuals like reports, charts, and key performance indicators (KPIs). The data displayed in dashboards can be filtered automatically or filtered by properties selected by users, enabling comparative data analysis across an organization. Because they pull together important business intelligence data from different sources in an easy-to-understand visual format, dashboards are useful tools that enable managers or decision makers to quickly assess the status of their business. This demo shows you how to create a dashboard page on a Report Center site and how to add a KPI Web Part to the dashboard page to display KPIs. You will also see how to add a KPI Details Web Part to a dashboard to display detailed information about a specific individual indicator.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides powerful Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features for creating, managing, and storing content across an enterprise. In this demo, you'll learn how a fictitious company called Adventure Works uses SharePoint Server to publish Web pages, archive and audit records, and manage documents. The demo shows how the Technical Documentation team uses a Document Center site as a centralized repository to create, organize, edit, and review all customer-facing external publications, such as user manuals and product specification sheets.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides organizations with a platform for sharing information and working together in teams. A SharePoint site offers specific kinds of tools and workspaces that you can use to communicate with team members, track projects, coordinate deadlines, and collaboratively create and edit documents. In this demo, you'll see how employees at a fictitious company called Adventure Works use features on a team site such as lists, document libraries, calendars, slide libraries, and blogs to collaborate on documents, track projects, and share information.