Here is an assortment of various 2007 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Documentation / Reference Materials I've found thus far. Check back often because I will be updating regularly! Please feel free to add comments or suggest links so we all can benefit.
Download SharePoint (11/16/06):
- Installation
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Download SharePoint Beta:
- Beta Known Issues
- Beta Known Issues
- Installation / Deployment
- Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Beta 2) on a single server
- Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Beta 2) in a server farm environment
- Deploying Windows SharePoint Services V3 (Beta 2) on a single server
- Deploying Windows SharePoint Services V3 (Beta 2) in a server farm environment
General Information:
Newsgroups / Community Resources
See MOSS in Action!:
Admin and Planning Guides:
SDKs / Starter Kits / Free Books:
- Book (FREE): First Look 2007 Microsoft Office System
- Books (FREE): Downloadable books for Windows SharePoint Services
Microsoft Videos / Web Casts :
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- Creating and Deploying a Feature for Windows SharePoint Services V3
Step through the process of using Visual Studio to create a custom feature and an associated assembly DLL. - Creating and Using Event Handlers in Windows SharePoint Services V3
Create a list item receiver class to handle both synchronous events as well as asynchronous events. - Creating Custom Document Information Panels
Discover the integration that exists between Document Information Panels and content types in Windows SharePoint Services V3. - Creating Custom Workflows with the SharePoint Designer 2007
Build a custom workflow using the wizard provided by SharePoint Designer 2007. - Customizing a Windows SharePoint Services V3 site with the SharePoint Designer 2007
Understand the difference between page templates and page instances and then learn how to customize your pages. - Extending the Office 2007 UI with a Custom Ribbon
Create a shared add-in with Visual Studio 2005 that extends the new user interface with a custom ribbon. - Extending the Office 2007 UI with a Custom Task Pane
Create a shared add-in with Visual Studio 2005 that extends the new user interface with a custom task pane. - Getting Up and Running with Excel Services
Step through the process of configuring Excel Services so that you can publish an Excel spreadsheet to a Windows SharePoint Services V3 site. - Generating Office Documents using the New XML Open File Formats
Generate, read and modify documents without going through the object model of the hosting Office application. - BI201 - Visio 2007: New Data Visualization Capabilities and Solutions (BI201_Morein.wmv)
- BI301 - Excel 2007: Programming Business Intelligence Features (BI301_Gupta.wmv)
- BI302 - Excel 2007: Building Business Intelligence Solutions Using Excel and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (BI302_Netz_Folting.wmv)
- BI303 - Developing User Defined Functions for Excel 2007 and Excel Services (BI303_Khen_Jones.wmv)
- BI304 - SharePoint Server 2007: Building Data-Rich BI Site Solutions (BI304_Datars.wmv)
- BI305 - Business Scorecard Manager 2005: Extensibility and Advanced Solutions (BI305_Tien_Tomai.wmv)
- BI306 - SharePoint Server 2007: Building Custom Solutions with Excel Services (BI306_Khen_Prish.wmv)
- CB301 - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services V3: Email, Directory, Tracking, and Other Collaboration Applications (CB301_Morton.wmv)
- CB302 - Microsoft Office Groove 2007: Developing Applications (CB302_Pyle.wmv)
- CB303 - Microsoft Office Groove 2007: Web Services, Data Bridge and Systems Integration (CB303_Pyle.wmv)
- CB304 - Microsoft Office Groove 2007: Building Forms-Based Workgroup Applications (CB304_Mahoney.wmv)
- CB405 - Integration and Customization with the New Real Time Collaboration (RTC) Platform (CB405_Newkerk.wmv)
- CB406 - Presence and Instant Messaging with the Real Time Collaboration (RTC) Platform and AJAX (CB406_Marsh.wmv)
- EC301 - Building and Branding Web Sites Using the Web Content Management Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007 (EC301_Perantatos.wmv)
- EC302 - SharePoint Server 2007: Extending Web Content Management Features - Page Authoring and Rendering (EC302_Masson.wmv)
- EC303 - SharePoint Server 2007: Extending Web Content Management Features - Navigation, Caching, and Operations (EC303_Quick.wmv)
- EC304 - InfoPath 2007: Development Tools for Forms Solutions (EC304_Friend.wmv)
- EC305 - InfoPath 2007: Development, Deployment, and Hosting for Rich and Browser Forms (EC305_Moore.wmv)
- EC306 - InfoPath 2007: Integrating InfoPath Forms into Workflow Solutions and Business Processes (EC306_Toncheva.wmv)
- EC401 - Extending The Document And Records Management Features of SharePoint Server 2007 (EC401_Gur-esh.wmv)
- EC402 - Customizing the Look and Feel of SharePoint Sites (EC402_Sasnett.wmv)
- WS201 - Server Development Overview (WS201_Fitzmaurice.wmv)
- WS301 - .NET Development on Microsoft SharePoint Technology, Part 1: Object Models, Web Services, Document I/O, Event Handlers, and CAML List Queries (WS301_Ammerlaan.wmv)
- WS303 - .NET Development on Microsoft SharePoint Technology, Part 2: ASP.NET Web Parts, Master Pages, and Data Rendering (WS303_Ammerlaan.wmv)
- WS304 - .NET Development on Microsoft SharePoint Technology, Part 3: Templates, Definitions, and Solution Deployment (WS304_Ohri.wmv)
- WS305 - .NET Development on Microsoft SharePoint Technology, Part 4: Content Types and Metadata (WS305_Taylor.wmv)
- WS310 - Using Workflow In Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WS310_Hatoun.wmv)
- WS311 - Windows SharePoint Services V3: Developing And Extending Custom Workflows and Activities (WS311_Hatoun_Hao.wmv)
- WS312 - Microsoft Office "Live" Services: An Overview and Benefits to Developers (WS312_ Koopmans_Jeans.wmv)
- WS313 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007: Building No-Code SharePoint Solutions (WS313_Mauceri.wmv)
- Channel 9 – Videos, Screencasts, Podcasts
- Groove
- CB302—Groove 2007: Developing Applications (via Hugh Pyle)
Presenter: Hugh Pyle; 77 minutes (280 MB)
Get an overview of Groove and its application development environments: Groove Forms and InfoPath Forms for workgroup applications; Groove Web Services for programmatic access to Groove services and data; and the Groove Data Bridge systems integration platform. - # CB304—Groove 2007: Building Forms-Based Workgroup Applications (via Hugh Pyle)
Presenter: Joshua Mahoney; 64 minutes (148 MB)
Learn how to use the Groove Forms and InfoPath Forms tools to build applications for team collaboration and structured data within Groove workspaces. - # CB303—Groove 2007: Web Services, Data Bridge and Systems Integration (via Hugh Pyle)
Presenter: Hugh Pyle; 72 minutes (275 MB)
Learn how the Groove Web Services API provides programmers and professional developers access to the collaborative services of Groove 2007, including Groove Forms, InfoPath Forms, and files within Groove workspaces.
- ( 1 ) Office 2007 New User Experience Part 1.wmv [ 10.1 MB ]
- ( 2 ) Office 2007 New User Experience Part 2.wmv [ 32.7 MB ]
- ( 3 ) Office 2007 Developing In Word 2007.wmv [ 29.0 MB ]
- ( 4 ) Office 2007 Core Excel Advances.wmv [ 19.9 MB ]
- ( 5 ) Office 2007 InfoPath Forms In Outlook.wmv [ 32.7 MB ]
- ( 6 ) Office 2007 New File Format Overview.wmv [ 14.6 MB ]
- ( 7 ) Office 2007 Servers Overview.wmv [ 36.1 MB ]
- ( 9 ) Office 2007 ECM Part1 - Doc Mgmt.wmv [ 30.1 MB ]
- ( 10 ) Office 2007 ECM Part2 - WCM.wmv [ 24.9 MB ]
- ( 11 ) Office 2007 Knowledge Mgmt.wmv [ 25.5 MB ]
- ( 12 ) Office 2007 BI.wmv [ 15.0 MB ]
- ( 13 ) Office 2007 Server Develoment.wmv[ 25.1 MB ]
- Podcasts
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Posters/Maps (via Andrew May):
Technical Information / HowTo's:
- Administration
- HowTo: Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image: The Whole 9 Yards
- HowTo: Navigation - Adjusting the top level navigation on all My Sites
- HowTo: Password Change via STSADM
- HowTo: Prevent people from seeing all users in the picker in WSS v3
- HowTo: Renaming a MOSS Server
- Maximum Limitations
- Quota Limits: Create quota templates (Windows SharePoint Services)
- Architecture / Configuration / Performance / Capacity Planning
- Capacity Planning: Sample Data for Capacity Planning
- Capacity Planning: SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool
- Performance: SharePoint 2007 Performance Summary
- Performance - SharePoint Reference Material: Performance vs. load vs. stress testing
- Performance - SharePoint Reference Material: HTTP performance testing with httperf, autobench and openload
- SharePoint Reference Material: Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Edition: Testing Demos
- Authentication / Security / Networking
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- Design / Customization
- Application Templates: Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites: Under the Hood
- Application Templates: Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Under the Hood
- Custom List Definition
- Drop Down Menu HowTo: SharePoint Tip: How to Activate the Drop Down Menu in MOSS Sites
- How To: Adding a custom Global Link
- SharePoint 2003 CSS Reference Chart (heather solomon)
- SharePoint 2003 Image Reference Guide (heather solomon)
- Using SharePoint Designer 2007 (TIP!) (shane perran)
Development
- Beginning / Introduction
- [scroll to bottom] Deploying Web Parts with Solution Packages in WSS v3/MOSS 2007
- Introduction to WSSv3 OM (dwinter)
- Developing Workflows in VS: Part 2 - Planning Your Workflow: Two Things to Keep in Mind
- Developing Workflows in VS: Part 3 - Five Steps for Developing Your Workflow
- Developing Workflows in VS: Part 4 - Design and Bind Your Forms
- Developing Workflows in VS: Part 5 - Code Your Workflow
- HowTo: /_layouts and how to create pages that run in site context
- HowTo: Accessing information on the SharePoint Web Server Extensions folder
- HowTo: Conditionally start a workflow with an eventhandler in SharePoint 2007
- Object Oriented JavaScript Techniques with the SharePoint Ajax Toolkit
- SQL: Find all lists with event sinks
- User Profile: Accessing the User Profile in both MOSS and WSS
- Visual Studio SharePoint Extensions CTP released....
- WebPart assemblies don't belong in _app_bin
- Web Part Versioning: Automatic Updating of Feature.XML in C# From Visual Studio
- Web Services: SharePoint Web Service Example – Grabbing Wiki Content
- Web Services: Lists Web Service - I
- Web Services/SOAP isn't the only path to XML from SharePoint
o Features
o Blogging
§ HowTo: Blogging from Word 2007
§ HowTo: Post a Blog from Word 2007 Beta2
o Business Data Catalog
§ Business Data Catalog (MS SharePoint Product Team Blog)
§ Business Data Catalog (Roberdan)
§ Content Types
§ SharePoint 2007 Content Types
§ More About SharePoint 2007 Content Types
§ Document Libraries
§ An extensive look at Documents in Sharepoint 2007 - Part 1 - The Document Library
§ An extensive look at Documents in Sharepoint 2007 - Part 2 - The Enterprise Document Center
§ An extensive look at Documents in Sharepoint 2007 - Part 3 - The Object Model
§ HowTo: Implementing a video library on a SharePoint site
§ HowTo: Creating and deploying VSTO Documents inside SharePoint Document Libraries
§ Excel Services
§ Groove
§ Microsoft Groove 2007 Beta 2 Offline SharePoint Feature Evaluation – Part 1
§ Office 2007 features for taking SharePoint offline
§ InfoPath
§ Interface
§ Knowledge Network
§ Knowledge Network Demo - via Channel 9
§ How do I get KN? (Updated June 30, 2006 10:00 AM)
§ Knowledge Network vs. “Expert” Location Systems
§ What is Knowledge Network and Why Should You Care?
§ Lists
§ HowTo: Multi-valued lookup columns
§ Office Integration
§ Step by Step Instructions for Publishing from Access 2007 to a SharePoint Site
§ What about Public Folders vs. email enabled Lists in WSS v3?
§ Records Management
§ **Sharepoint 2007: Document/Records Management resource list V0.1
§ Records Management Feature: Auditing
§ Records Management Feature: Expiration Policies
§ Records Management Feature: Information Management Policies (Part I)
§ Records Management Feature: Information Management Policies (Part II)
§ Records Management Feature(s) – Barcode and Labeling Policies
§ Search
§ Microsoft Enterprise Search 101: Technology and SKU breakdown
§ Social Networking
§ Managing Social Networking with MOSS 2007
§ Microsoft Knowledge Network Team Blog
§ SharePoint Knowledge Network
§ Social Networking and My Sites (Joel Oleson)
§ Variations
§ Variations (multi language) on sub sites
§ Workflow
§ Introduction to SharePoint Workflow! (MS SharePoint Product Team Blog)
§ Understanding Workflow in Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Microsoft Office System
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o Other (Office 2007 Relevant Links)