Presented by Nicole Bird

Roanoke Valley Sharepoint User GroupMay 28, 2008

Building a Business Case◦ What is Sharepoint and how would we use it?

Engineering / Planning◦ Identify needs◦ Governance / Compliance◦ Design/Architecture

Visit the Microsoft Gear Up Sitehttp://sharepoint.microsoft.com/gearup/

2

Getting users to adopt and use◦ Engaging and training users

Release / Launch◦ Moving into maintenance mode

Look at the Sharepoint Buzz Look at the Sharepoint Buzz KitKitdesigned to help you generate demand for your deployed sitesharepoint.microsoft.com/gearup/Pages/General/BuzzKit.aspx

3

Administrators◦ Installation , configuration, maintenance

Programmer / Developers◦ Custom coding, design, and styling

Site Managers◦ Adding and maintaining sites, users

Business / End Users◦ Adding & editing content, using webparts

4

Sharepoint Training Downloads◦ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/ HA10

2488011033.aspx

Support Site: ◦ http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint

Portal Edition can be installed on your SP server, so it is accessible by all users. Generates reports of training taken.

Can add customized content by converting content to a SCORM compliant item.

5

6

Sharepoint Training Online ◦ http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepoin

tserver.aspx

Also has similar training for Designer◦ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/ FX1

00487631033.aspx

Designer Team Blog:◦ http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/default.aspx

Look at the references at the bottom of Gear Up

7

 Sharepoint Solutions http://sharepointsolutions.com/

◦ Classroom in Charlotte, Nashville◦ Online: http://sharepoint-screencasts.com/default.aspx

Mindsharp http://www.mindsharp.com/ ◦ Classroom in Charlotte, Knoxville◦ Sign up for Premium Content (free). ◦ Register for their Yahoo Group (free):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharepointdiscussions/

.Net University◦ http://www.dotnet-u.com/coursematerials.aspx

8

New Horizons will come on site (for $) with 5060 and 5061, which is geared to certification prep.

MS also has eLearning: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ learning/e-learning.mspx

If interested in Certification Prep, many members prefer MeasureUp over Transcender. They all suggest using this AFTER you study just to get a feel for the test.

SheltonBlog.com has some good training videos online.

9

Security◦ Setting internal security at a high level in a site; but

giving external users rights to See the high level but only items they have rights to. <need to define the ‘items’ as item level security may be different on different items.

Moving a custom list to another ?site?◦ Try exporting to excel then import to other site

Fast, but dropdown and ‘choice’ boxes are lost◦ OR Save as a template to use on other site

Takes longer but dropdown and ‘choice boxes are maintained.

Custom List using XSLT view link breaks◦ Need to reference by Name rather than GUID

10