1. Presented by Nicole Bird Roanoke Valley Sharepoint User Group May 28, 2008

2.  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 Site http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/gearup/ 2

3.  Getting users to adopt and use ◦ Engaging and training users  Release / Launch ◦ Moving into maintenance mode Look at the Sharepoint Buzz Kit Look at the Sharepoint Buzz Kit designed to help you generate demand for your deployed site sharepoint.microsoft.com/gearup/Pages/General/BuzzKit.aspx 3

4.  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

5.  Sharepoint Training Downloads ◦ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/ HA102488011033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/ HA102488011033.aspx  Support Site: ◦ http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint 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

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7.  Sharepoint Training Online ◦ http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepoin tserver.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepoin tserver.aspx  Also has similar training for Designer ◦ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/ FX100487631033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/ FX100487631033.aspx  Designer Team Blog: ◦ http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/default.aspx  Look at the references at the bottom of Gear Up 7

8.  Sharepoint Solutions http://sharepointsolutions.com/ http://sharepointsolutions.com/ ◦ Classroom in Charlotte, Nashville ◦ Online: http://sharepoint-screencasts.com/default.aspx http://sharepoint-screencasts.com/default.aspx  Mindsharp http://www.mindsharp.com/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/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharepointdiscussions/ .Net University ◦ http://www.dotnet-u.com/coursematerials.aspx http://www.dotnet-u.com/coursematerials.aspx 8

9.  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 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

10.  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