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SharePoint Server 2010 Hosting Environments interactive presentation

Overview of SharePoint Server 2010 hosting features and concepts

This presentation includes content on

  • Multi Tenancy
  • Site Subscriptions
  • Service Partitioning
  • Enterprise Hosting Environments
  • Shared Hosting Environments


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February 16th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

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SharePoint 2010 restore an unattached content database Hands on Lab

Hands on Lab pdf link

Link to my post about the public SharePoint 2010 Beta VHD

 

Estimated time to complete this lab

45 minutes

Objectives

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

 Navigate through an unattached SharePoint Content Database

 Export content from an unattached SharePoint Content Database

 Import previously exported content

Prerequisites

Before working on this lab, you must have experience of working with previous versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies.

In addition, you should have completed Hands on Lab: Installation and Configuration of SharePoint Server 2010.

February 12th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

SharePoint 2010 Business Continuity Management trivia – Microsoft Patent Application

For the BCM feature of SharePoint 2010 you have the ability to browse and export content from a detached content database as if the database was a part of your web application in your farm.

SharePoint 2010 Business Continuity Management

Here is a link to the patent application overview.

Another link to the PDF application with detailed diagrams.

February 12th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

Course 50354A: SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Designer

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Course.aspx?ID=50354A&Locale=en-us#tab2

 

Course Outline

Module 1: Overview

A simple introduction module.

Lessons

  • Overview

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Understand your course, classroom, classmates, facility and instructor.

Module 2: 2010 ChangesIn this module we are going to take a look at some of the major changes between SharePoint Designer 2007 and SharePoint Designer 2010.Lessons

  • Changes

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe the changes to SharePoint Designer 2010

Module 3: User Interface

In this module we take a look at common features of the basic team site. Throughout this course we will create and manage several different pieces of content and the team site will be our site of choice for doing this!  Understanding this site is the center piece of starting your journey of understanding SharePoint and applying it to you everyday life!

Lessons

  • New SharePoint Features

Lab : SharePoint Designer Interface

  • Explore new interface of SharePoint Designer
  • Review new work areas of Designer
  • Browse Site Pages
  • Browse Master Pages
  • Browse Lists and Libraries
  • Browse Workflows
  • Browse Content Types
  • Browse Data Sources
  • Browse Entities
  • Explore Site Structure

Lab : SharePoint Designer (Basics)

  • Create a new site
  • Create a new page
  • Create a new master page
  • Attach a master page
  • Create a list
  • Change list settings
  • Create Content Type
  • Create/Modify CSS

Lab : SharePoint Designer (Basics)

  • Check-In/Check-Out
  • Add Web Parts
  • Add Web Part Zone
  • Adding Images (_images directory)
  • Reset to Site Definition

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe the new UI features of the basic team site
  • Log in and out of a site
  • What the Quick Launch bar is
  • Describe the Security Trimmed Interface of SharePoint
  • Know where to create items on a site
  • Find out who has access to a site
  • Understand how to undelete items on a site (recycle bin)

Module 4: Data Views

In this module we are going to take a look at Data Views and Data Sources.

Lessons

  • DataSources and DataViews

Lab : DataViews

  • Create/Manage Data Views
  • Create/Manage Data Sources
  • Merge Two Data Sources
  • Link Two Data Sources
  • Data View Parameters

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • How to create and use Data Views and Data Sources

Module 5: External Content TypesIn this module we are going to take a look at the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS), the replacement/new version of Business Data Catalog (BDC).Lessons

  • Business Connectivity Services

Lab : External Content Types

  • Explore External Content Types
  • Create a new External Content Type
  • Create an External List

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Understand what BCS is
  • How to create and use Entities with SharePoint Designer

Module 6: WorkflowsIn this module we are going to take a look at implementing workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010.Lessons

  • Workflows

Lab : BuiltInActivities (2007)

  • Use one of each Built-In Activity (2007)

Lab : BuiltInActivities (2010)

  • Use one of each Built-In Activity (2010)

Lab : LoopingWorkflow

  • Create a looping set of workflows

Lab : ReusableWorkflows

  • Create Reusable Workflows (Site/Global)
  • Export a workflow to Visio
  • Import a workflow from Visio
  • Save as Template

Lab : ModifyOOBWorkflow

  • Modify Out Of Box Workflows

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Build workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Understand how to edit built in workflows
  • Implement logging in your workflows

Before attending this course, students must have:

  • Understanding of SharePoint site elements (Lists, Libraries, Content Types, etc)
February 12th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

United States Olympic Committee Media Site Shines With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Everything the U.S. Olympic press corps needs to report from the Games is now in one place, with the ability to share, e-mail, print and download information from one simple Web site.

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/jan10/01-27USOCpresssite.mspx

February 12th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

Access Services cmdlets (SharePoint Server 2010)

Updated: 2009-12-14

[This article is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases.]

Access Services is a service in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that lets an administrator view, edit, and configure a Microsoft Access application within a Web browser.

All Access Services settings support backup and recovery, regardless of whether there is a UI setting in Central Administration. However, backup and recovery only apply to service-level and administrative-level settings; end-user content from the Access application is not backed up as part of this process.

Access Services has Windows PowerShell functionality that you can use to provision the service or provision a new instance that uses settings from a previous backup; configure and manage macro and query setting; manage and configure session management; and configure all the global settings of the service.

The following cmdlets are available for Beta.

Cmdlet name

New-SPAccessServiceApplication

Get-SPAccessServiceApplication

Set-SPAccessServiceApplication

To download the AccessServicesCmdlets.chm file, see Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179124).

February 11th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

Enterprise content management cmdlets (SharePoint Server 2010)

Updated: 2009-12-14

[This article is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases.]

Enterprise content management (ECM) is the strategies, methods, and tools used to obtain, retain, and deliver content and documents related to processes within an organization. In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Windows PowerShell cmdlets focus on two aspects of content deployment functionality.

Content deployment copies content from a source SharePoint Server 2010 site collection to a destination site collection. You can copy the entire source site collection or a subset of sites.

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Make sure that you run the initial content deployment as a full deployment. After you complete a full deployment, you can run an incremental deployment, which deploys only changed pages and related assets.

The Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are related to content deployment focus on two areas:

  • Content deployment path   A content deployment path defines the relationship between a source and destination site collection for content deployment. After you create a path, you can create jobs and associate them with the path to begin deploying content.
    Use the Windows PowerShell noun, SPContentDeploymentPath, to retrieve, set, and create deployment paths.
  • Content deployment job   A content deployment job is associated with a content deployment path. It defines the specific content to be deployed from the source to the destination, and the schedule on which the deployment should occur.
    The Windows PowerShell noun, SPContentDeploymentJob, lets the administrator retrieve, set, and create deployment jobs.

There are also cmdlets that support administration of metadata.

The following cmdlets are available for Beta.

Cmdlet name

Get-SPContentDeploymentJob

New-SPContentDeploymentJob

Remove-SPContentDeploymentJob

Set-SPContentDeploymentJob

Start-SPContentDeploymentJob

Get-SPContentDeploymentPath

New-SPContentDeploymentPath

Remove-SPContentDeploymentPath

Set-SPContentDeploymentPath

Clear-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData

Export-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData

Import-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData

Get-SPSiteSubscriptionMetadataConfig

Remove-SPSiteSubscriptionMetadataConfig

Set-SPSiteSubscriptionMetadataConfig

Get-SPTaxonomySession

Get-SPMetadataServiceApplication

New-SPMetadataServiceApplication

Set-SPMetadataServiceApplication

Get-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy

New-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy

Set-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy

To download the ECMCmdlets.chm or MetadataCmdlets.chm file, see Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179124).

February 11th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

SharePoint Server 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)

Here is another development VHD that contains the following products:

Microsoft Download Center

  1. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
  2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 + CU2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
  3. Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
  4. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate Edition
  5. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Beta 2
  6. Microsoft Office Web Applications Beta 2
  7. FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2
  8. Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta 2
  9. Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2
  10.   Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Keep in mind that many of the software included on the VHD require activation after 30 days.

MSDN, TechNet, or Partner Action Pack license keys will active software that is not Beta.

If you wish to activate Beta software check the Microsoft.com sites for each respective product and retrieve the key there.

February 11th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

Code samples from: – SharePoint Conference 2009, "Advanced Development for Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2010"

Code samples from:
- SharePoint Conference 2009, "Advanced Development for Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2010"
- MSDN Webcast Feb 2010, "Developing Rich Solutions in Silverlight for SharePoint 2010"
- ReadMe.docx

This release includes a recording of the MSDN Webcast,

“Developing Rich Solutions in Silverlight for SharePoint 2010”

along with the code shown in the webcast. These are updates of the same solutions shown at SharePoint Conference 2009 in the talk, “Advanced Development for Silverlight 3 in SharePoint 2010”; this Code Gallery release will serve to provide the sample code from both talks.

The code samples are as follows:

SharePoint and Silverlight from Scratch

This walkthrough was presented only in the webcast to show how to get stared developing in Silverlight for SharePoint 2010. The sample includes only the snippets (in Visual Studio snippet format); it will be necessary to watch the webcast to see how to use them.

Picture View Web Part

This is a Silverlight web part that shows a slide show of images stored in a SharePoint picture library. This demonstrates how to use the HTML bridge to reduce the number of round-trips to the server. In this case, the server side web part passes the URL’s of the pictures to Silverlight in a hidden form field, removing the need for the Silverlight application to query the server for the list of pictures.

Paged List View Web Part

This is a Silverlight web part that shows a grid of data from a SharePoint list. It allows paging, sorting and filtering, and only loads an n-row page at a time to allow viewing a large data set without downloading the whole thing to Silverlight. In addition to loading the first “page” of data in a hidden field (like the Picture View web part) , it obtains additional content using ADO.NET Data Services and SharePoint’s new RESTful interface.
NOTE this release does not include the target list, and the sample will not run without it. A future release may include a matching list definition with sample data.

Video Field Control

This adds a Video field to SharePoint, using Silverlight applications to view and select the video. The actual field simply stores the URL of the video. The Silverlight display application is very simple, and just plays the video based on this URL. The selector application is more interesting as it uses the client object model to provide a simple browsing and preview feature in which the user can select a site, library and video to be shown.

Connected Silverlight Web Parts

This sample includes a pair of web parts – a source and target. When connected via the web browser, text entered into the source web part will appear on all targets as it is typed. This shows how to use SharePoint’s web part connection mechanism – which runs on the server side – as a broker to connect the Silverlight applications. The Silverlight applications communicate using the new Silverlight 3.0 Local Messaging API.

 

Extracted from

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SP2010Silverlight

February 11th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments

Minimal master page file for SharePoint Foundation 2010

This master page is meant as a starting point for creating master pages for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. Most of the controls on the page are hidden. You can move these controls into other locations based on your design. You can find the default controls in the v4.master page that ships with the product.

 

Example starter.master

February 11th, 2010 Neal McFee No comments