One of the new features with SharePoint 2010 is the option to add-on FAST for advanced indexing and search capabilities. The short presentation below gives an idea of the extras you get with FAST versus just using SharePoint. The focus is on internal indexing/search solutions. FAST offers a lot more over SharePoint for use with public facing web sites but that’s a whole other scenario.

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The presentation below contains a walkthrough the basics of what are content types in SharePoint 2010 and what’s new. Enjoy!

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This week I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference and one of the sessions I delivered was an interactive tour around some of the new and improved features being introduced in SharePoint 2010, from the end-user’s perspective. Here’s a presentation that summarises some of the demonstration:

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Microsoft has released the Productivity Hub – a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection available for download that includes training materials for end-users. Ready to be installed on any internal SharePoint Server 2007 deployment, the Productivity Hub includes…

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This is the first post in a series based on a training course I have delivered over the past three years. The course is a half-day workshop covering the basics of what is SharePoint through to managing a site.

Managing Site Permissions

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With SharePoint Server 2007, you can easily set-up workflows to require items in a list to be approved. (Go to the list settings, click on Workflow settings and fill in the boxes.) However, if you are going to the trouble of requiring all items to be approved, you probably only want those items to become visible to everyone once they have been approved.

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