A Manager's Guide to SharePoint

A Manager's Guide to SharePoint is a non-technical white paper explaining concepts of deploying and maintaining a SharePoint implementation. This free, thirty-six page eBook gives a broad overview, covering critical topics when planning your SharePoint implementation.

• Why SharePoint?
• Initial Business Considerations
• Technology Platform for the Non-­Technical
• Organizational Change Management
• Governance
• Roadmap

Thank you to Noble Acuff of the Acuff Group for allowing us to offer of free download.

To download A Manager's Guide to SharePoint

Pattern and Practices for SharePoint Guidance

Summary

The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scaleable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise. The two reference implementations illustrate how to solve many of the common challenges developers encounter. One reference implementation addresses basic issues such as creating lists and content types. The other addresses more advanced problems such as how to integrate line of business services, how to create collaboration sites programmatically, and how to customize aspects of publishing and navigation. A library of reusable components helps you adopt techniques used in the reference implementations. The guidance discusses approaches for testing SharePoint applications, such as how to create unit tests, and documents experiences with stress and scale testing one of the reference implementations.

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SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT)

SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT) is a windows based utility aimed at simplifying and accelerating the creation and testing of SharePoint Solutions. With a whole host of time saving capabilities and planned integration with Universal SharePoint Manager 2007, you'll never want to take on SharePoint without it again.

To download clickhere http://www.metalogix.net/SharePoint-Work-Acceleration-Toolkit/

SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation download

SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation

Now you can download the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation that is in PDF form.

This document contain a White paper on Customizing the Ribbon in Windows SharePoint Services “14”, and Technical Preview for SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010 Managed Reference SDK available.

To download visit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24#tm

SharePoint Shortcut Keys

Wow this what say when saw that SharePoint has Shortcut Keys, what cool feature. Shortcut key most of the time available for Windows Application till date most of the web application do not have this functions.

Some sample keys

View All Site Content link.   ALT+3

Site Actions menu.             ALT+/

Search link.                      ALT+S

Help link.                         ALT+6

Home link.                        ALT+1

Site Actions menu.             SHIFT+ENTER

New Document                  ALT+N

Upload Document              ALT+U

For details of more shortcut keys visit

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101733621033.aspx

SharePoint List / Document Libraries Scalability

Recently SharePoint forum user posted a query about SharePoint Document Library and List item limitation. When search technet founded that.

Each document library can store 2 million records, if you need very large document libraries by nesting folders.

Each List can store 2000 items however you can create nested folder to overcome this limitation.

Each List / Doc library can create 2000 folder. If you have beyond a thousand entries each folder Folder do not perform

For more details visit

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/07/25/scaling-large-lists.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287743.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34728/sharepoint-list-scalability

Introduction to Branding SharePoint

I am presenting "Introduction to Branding SharePoint". at SharePointPros.SG user group On 20th Aug. 2009

Location Microsoft Singapore Level 22 CF-12 @ 6:45pm, If you are  interested and  time permits please join.....

To Register for the event please email to ssofian at mvps.org

In this session you will learn about how to  change SharePoint site style and design?. We will review the topic related to branding as it relates to SharePoint as well as dive into the use of themes, master pages, page layouts and CSS to create a more good look and feel for SharePoint. We will also discuss the entire branding process from the creation of the design to the deployment.