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SharePoint Server Help - Training Courses

This helps you know the SharePoint features from a user perspective.

• Make the switch to the new SharePoint 2010 user interface - shows you what to expect in terms of what's changed from previous versions, and how to quickly get up to speed doing the tasks you're used to doing
• Share information in a central place - shows you how you can use SharePoint sites as a central place to store and share information with team members
• Manage documents and content in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - provides an overview of the new and updated document management features
• Collaborate on documents and projects more efficiently - learn how to make the most out of SharePoint calendars, how to allow multiple people to author a document simultaneously, take your documents offline and then reconnect by using SharePoint Workspace, and how to manage a project in SharePoint and by using Project Task lists
• Quickly find the resources you need to get your job done - search has been improved to help you quickly and easily find the documents you need to get your work done faster
• SharePoint pages I: An introduction - introduction to the concept of pages on a SharePoint 2010 team site
• SharePoint Lists I: An introduction - learn the basics of Lists
• SharePoint lists II: Create and work with different lists - learn how to create your own list and how to group list items and set e-mail alerts for a list
• SharePoint lists III: Create a list based on a spreadsheet - learn how to take a spreadsheet and make it into a SharePoint list
• SharePoint Lists IV: Create a custom list - learn how to create your own custom list, a list with special columns that you define
• Introduction to Web Content Management - provides an introduction to designing and authoring structured content pages on a publishing site using an approval workflow
• My Sites: Connecting to people and information - shows you how to be more productive by using your My Site, social tagging, and related features
• Introduction to Records Management and Compliance - introduces you to some of the new and improved records management and compliance features
• Make Better Business Decisions - learn how to use a PerformancePoint dashboard to analyze potential business concerns, such as profitability, and then share information and recommendations with others in order to improve business decision making

SharePoint 2010 Best Practices

• Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 - Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 contains guidance documentation, detailed examples, and a reusable class library. These resources are designed to help solution developers and architects make the right decisions and follow proven practices when designing and developing applications for SharePoint 2010. The guidance focuses primarily on the building blocks that every developer needs to understand to become an effective SharePoint developer or architect
• SharePoint Server 2010 Usage Best Practices White Paper: In this white paper, you will learn how to manage content effectively, how to choose the best option for displaying content, and the most effective way to find your content later.
• Sharepoint Server 2010 Adoption Best Practices White Paper: In this white paper, you will learn how to plan, organize, and create a SharePoint adoption plan
• SharePoint 2010 Governance Planning (white paper): this white paper uses a fictitious company named Contoso to provide guidance for the necessary governance planning and implementation of SharePoint Server 2010
• SharePoint Server 2010 Operations Framework and Checklists (white paper): This document details the operational processes, tasks, and tools that are required to operate and maintain a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment. It explains how the management of SharePoint Server 2010 fits in with the overall Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) model

SharePoint 2010 Introduction Videos

• What's New in SharePoint 2010 - learn about all of the new developer features in the SharePoint platform including tools, team sites, UI enhancements and a brief look back to understand how the SharePoint developer story has improved
• How SharePoint 2010 Works - covers software and hardware requirements, and the basic concepts of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
• What Can SharePoint Do For You? - Hear from SharePoint 2010 customers - Global Crossing, Associated Press, and many more. From ECM and WCM, to Collaboration and Search, SharePoint 2010 is delivering real results to our customers
• What Can SharePoint 2010 Do for Me? - introduces Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities to IT professionals. Concepts covered include document sharing, lists, alerts, team sites, metadata, and more
• SharePoint 2010 for Developers - hear how professional developers at Microsoft customers and Partners take advantage of new features in SharePoint 2010. In this segment we hear from Raymond James, Nintex and Intergen. They talk about the new Visual Studio 2010SharePoint developer tools, about business connectivity services for line of business data access and about Silverlight and the Client APIs for rich user interface.
• SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals - SharePoint 2010's new features and flexible deployment help IT Professionals improve productivity. Hear how these improvements benefit Raymond James and HP
• SharePoint 2010 Communities: Allow Users to Connect, Innovate and Share - Social computing promotes sharing and openness within communities. Learn from customers how their enhanced people-centric collaboration solutions empowered their users and improved performance within the organization.
• Increasing user productivity with SharePoint 2010 Search - General Mills created a state of the art research portal designed to simplify and expedite the researching process. Taking advantage of the conversational, visual and contextual capabilities of search, General Mills employees can make better informed and effective decisions, leading to new revenue opportunities
• SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites Drives Revenue - See how Seek.com brings job seekers, employers, and advertisers together.
• Internet Digital Marketing with SharePoint 2010 - Digital Marketers today need to launch an increasing amount of websites quickly and easily. SharePoint 2010 shows marketers how to be competitive and build their business through digital marketing.

SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Guides

• SharePoint 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide: Introduction and overview of SharePoint Server 2010
• SharePoint Server 2010 Walkthrough Guide: This walkthrough guide is designed to provide a step-by-step overview of Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide : Introduction and overview of SharePoint Server 2010 for IT pros
• SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs: The SharePoint 2010 developer evaluation guide describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers
• Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products: Compares and contrasts search technologies in SharePoint 2010 Products
• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide: Describes the enterprise search features provided by Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Evaluation Guide: Describes the enterprise search features provided by Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
• Office 2010: Product Guides: The Office 2010 product guides provide an overview of what's new in your favorite Microsoft Office programs and a deeper look at benefits across all Office 2010 programs, as well as Office Web Apps and Office Mobile 2010
• Compare Office Professional Plus 2010 and the 2007 suite : Gives you an idea of how Office Professional Plus 2010 compares to Office Professional Plus 2007
• Collaboration without compromise - SharePoint and Office 2010: The scenarios outlined in this paper show examples of how the power of SharePoint 2010 and related servers can be combined with capabilities of one or more Microsoft Office 2010 applications to deliver rich, intuitive, and easy-to-use capabilities directly into the hands of information workers