| Resource | Description | Category |
|---|
 Blog |
| Content Deployment Best Practices | In the past Stefan has released several blogs about the various problems that can occur with Content Deployment. As it is often hard to find the right resource he has now decided to compile the different known issues into one large article.
| Operations, Content Management |
| End-User SharePoint | Great blog focused on end-user solutions and howtos | Training, SharePoint Designer, Development, End-User |
| Heather Solomon Blog | The definitive guide for understanding SharePoint branding and styles. | SharePoint Designer, Development, User Interface |
| How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft | Over the past 12 months, I’ve met with many customers and received numerous escalations from our field about how social computing capabilities can be used to solve real business problems. This white paper was developed primarily to answer those questions. | Social Computing, Whitepapers |
| Link Integrity Management: Processes, Tactics, and Solutions | How to effectively deal with link integrity. | Content Management, Database, End-User, Operations, SharePoint Designer, Training, Utilities |
| Newsgator Social Site - How We Did It | NewsGator Social Sites extends Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with social feedback (i.e. bookmarking, tagging, commenting), social networking, and community functionality by leveraging the SharePoint platform and social computing services provided by NewsGator Enterprise Server. | Social Computing |
| SharePoint and Social Computing | Michael Gannotti discussed SharePoint and Social Computing through video. | Social Computing |
| SharePoint Automation - Automating SharePoint 2007 Configurations via STSADM and PowerShell. | A listing of all the STSADM commands and PowerShell Cmdlets that Gary LaPointe created. | Content Management, Database, Development, Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| SharePoint Blogs | A one stop shop for SharePoint blogs aggregations. SharePoint Blogs and SharePoint University - all in one place! | General Info |
| SharePoint Pod Show - A Podcast All About SharePoint | A collection of Podcasts all about SharePoint and related technologies. | Training, Governance/Compliance, Podcasts, Development |
| SharePoint Screencast Tutorials: Introduction to building SharePoint workflow with SharePoint Designer 2007 | Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) provides an excellent work environment that is easily customized by users to better manage their "information" regardless if that is structured list data, documents, or collaboration tools like discussions. In this latest version of SharePoint you can take all that important business data and unlock an even higher level of performance with new SharePoint worksflow. Workflows allow you to attach a custom business process or processes to that "information" whether it be a document or list of information (such as sales leads). | Training, SharePoint Designer, Development |
| Stefan Gobner's Blog | Escalation Engineer for SharePoint (WSS, SPS, MOSS) and MCMS
| Development, Operations, Content Management |
| Stir up your best ideas with a group SharePoint blog | When Office Online lost Janet Galore to the Stategic Prototyping group, it lost a true voice for creativity and forward thinking. Luckily for everyone here at Microsoft, Janet is still in the building (well, one of the buildings). This week she shares her idea about how to create a sense of community from within a company ... with the help of a blog. | Social Computing |
| User Management Challenges and Solutions for SharePoint Extranets | Joel Oleson walks through the challenges of extranets. The first challenge is getting the authentication and secure infrastructure deployment put together, second is the actual service provisioning which *very* often is some type of workflow or portal for provisioning sites, and third is user management. | Extranet, Whitepapers |
| Document |
| Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise with the 2007 Office System | This white paper explores how the 2007 Microsoft Office system allows enterprises to adopt Web 2.0 ideas and technologies to create high-value, user-driven applications for the Internet and intranet. | Social Computing, Whitepapers |
| Database Maintenance for SharePoint Whitepaper | This paper describes the recommended maintenance strategies for the databases that host content and configuration settings for SharePoint Products and Technologies. | Whitepapers, Database, Operations |
| End-to-End Content Deployment Walkthrough | This downloadable guide is aimed at IT pros planning to use content deployment with their enterprise sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The guide takes you through the steps for setting up source and destination site collections, creating a deployment path and job, and then running the job to see how it populates the destination site collection with the content from the source site collection. | Training, Operations, Content Management |
| How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance | Learn how to optimize an Internet-facing Web content management (WCM) site to achieve maximum performance and an effective user experience. | Whitepapers, Operations, Performance Tuning |
| Managing social networking with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 | Learn about the importance of social networking in an organization and how to properly implement Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a social networking platform. This white paper discusses why it is important to design a solution that encompasses the inclusion of data into Office SharePoint Server 2007 as part of a user's profile. | Social Computing, Whitepapers |
| Usiing Blogs and Wikis in Business | Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes built-in support for wikis and blogs in order to enhance collaboration and information exchange within the organization. This paper includes a discussion of wiki and blog support in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and includes examples of features that are relevant to business decision makers and technical managers. | Social Computing, Whitepapers |
| Exe/Zip |
| External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint | The External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint is intended to help address an organization's ability to communicate with external business partners across the Internet using Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 or Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007. It consists of software and guidance that will help you to deploy a customizable solution that teams can use to collaborate securely with partners outside the firewall. The toolkit’s familiar SharePoint interface makes the solution easy for project team members to understand and use. | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Utilities |
| Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System | The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System creates detailed reports to help administrators achieve greater performance, scalability, and uptime.
| Utilities, Operations, Performance Tuning |
| SharePoint Governance and Manageability | Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management is a custom Microsoft solution that provides lifecycle management for Windows SharePoint Services site collections through write locking, back up to disk. | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| SharePoint Server 2007 Tool: Add/Edit Crawl Rules with Form/Cookie Credentials | This download is required as a part of a quick engineering fix (QFE) to ease the functionality provided by the QFE so that administrators do not have to write code to create crawl rules for indexing Forms Authentication/Cookie-protected Web sites in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
| Extranet, Search |
| Forum |
| MSDN Social Computing Forum | Topics about MySites, blogs, wikis, tagging, social networking, knowledge search and brokering, communities, etc. | Social Computing |
| Newsletter |
| SharePoint Beagle Newsletter | This newsletter is dedicated to those who love SharePoint. Have articles and news about upcoming events in the SharePoint industry delivered right to your desktop!
| General Info |
| Twitter Feed |
| SharePoint Product Group Twitter Feed | Follow the SahrePoint Product Group announcements on Twitter. | General Info, Social Computing |
| Web Site |
| Analyst International | Founded in 1966, Analysts International Corporation (AIC) is an information technology services company that's focused on providing configured solutions for its clients. We proudly serve a broad portfolio of clients throughout the United States with technology staffing, collaboration solutions, infrastructure solutions, project and application solutions and managed services offerings. | Consulting |
| AvePoint | SharePoint Administrator gives organizations universal control over their enterprise-wide SharePoint landscape, from a single farm to hundreds of farms. | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Performance Tuning, Utilities |
| Axceler for Microsoft SharePoint | ControlPoint gives you the ability to explore, protect, analyze and control your SharePoint environment. Specifically, ControlPoint helps you gain better control through comprehensive permissions management, in-depth activity analysis, storage analysis even down to site lists and libraries, site and site collection analysis, and parametric search designed specifically for administrators. | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| Bamboo SharePoint Administration Suite | The Bamboo SharePoint Administration Suite combines a wide variety of powerful Web Parts and SharePoint features designed to improve site design, user management, and internal SharePoint communication. | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| Citrix | Citrix Repeater™(formerly known as WANScaler) solutions provide high-performance application delivery to branch office users. Repeaters accelerate application performance across wide area networks (WAN) by an average of five to 30 times, and up to 300 times at peak compression efficiency. With Repeaters in the network, users in the branch office will experience LAN-line application performance over the WAN which means accelerated application response time. | Operations, Performance Tuning |
| Community Kit for SharePoint | The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest. | Social Computing, Utilities |
| Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites | Explore and learn how to address security and performance issues of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites before launching them as Internet-facing publishing sites. | Content Management, Whitepapers |
| DeliverPoint: Permissions | The security trimmed nature of DeliverPoint :Permissions offers a radical new approach to managing permissions in SharePoint, consistent with SharePoint's distributed architecture. With DeliverPoint :Permissions, administrators of all levels can now easily discover and manage permissions across their scope of authority in the farm. | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| Epok Edition for Microsoft SharePoint | Epok Edition for Microsoft SharePoint is an extension to SharePoint 2007 that makes it easy to securely extend SharePoint site access to users in these external organizations. | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| GEAR Up | GEAR Up is an online content tool that will assist IT professionals and business managers to find timely resources and guidance through phases of a typical SharePoint Server 2007 deployment cycle: Get Ready, Engineer, Adopt, and Release. Each phase relates to end user adoption of SharePoint Server 2007. | Training, Governance/Compliance, User Adoption |
| Governance Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 | This site contains tools and resources to help business decision makers and IT professionals govern their SharePoint Products and Technologies environment. | Governance/Compliance |
| Idera SharePoint Admin Toolsset | If the answer is yes, then you need the Idera SharePoint admin toolset. Packed with 11 powerful tools that will make SharePoint troubleshooting and administration such a breeze you'll be wondering what to do with all the spare time you have on your hands - really | Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| iDevFactroy - SWAT Tool | 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.
| Utilities, Development, Operations |
| iDevFactroy - Universal SharePoint Manager 2007 | Universal SharePoint Manager v2007™ enables enterprises to administer and manage thier SharePoint environments and focus on the key areas of burden.
Universal SharePoint Manager v2007 features turn SharePoint administration and support tasks from Days into Hours and Hours into Minutes!
| Utilities, Governance/Compliance, Operations |
| Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for the Professional .NET Developer | Explore the extensible solution platform of SharePoint Products and Technologies and opportunities for its use in .NET development. | Training, Development |
| K2 | K2 software automates business processes so your organization can
run more efficiently. | Development, Governance/Compliance, Workflow |
| Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit | This tool pack is oriented towards helping SharePoint administrators with complex or demanding tasks—and we will have updated releases several times each year. | Database, Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |
| Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Training Courses | A roadmap to SharePoint Server 2007 training. Applies to: Microsoft Office Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Word 2007 | Training, User Adoption, End-User |
| Mindsharp | One key element in deploying any new technology is providing users with education about the benefits of this new technology and how it will improve their daily work. There are many companies that provide education in the IT industry but not all education providers are the same. Mindsharp has made great efforts and investments to differentiate the education we provide by ensuring it is of the highest quality available on the market | Training |
| Mixon Consulting | Mixon Consulting is dedicated to helping organizations and information specialists optimize their experience and maximize their value with SharePoint. It is our belief that the first and most critical steps are careful planning, calculated architecting and creative design driven by the vision and needs of the business. Mixon Consulting has created a learning experience that is unique and transformative. | Consulting, Training |
| Neudesic | Neudesic is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on Microsoft’s technology platform. Neudesic's technical and industry expertise empower enterprises to enhance their technological capacity and respond to business opportunities with a greater level of efficiency. | Consulting |
| Nintex | Nintex is a leading global innovator of software products that extend Microsoft technology, with over 1000 customers in 60 countries, including 40 Fortune 500 companies. The company focuses on building software that bridges the gap between that which can be bought from Microsoft today and common functionality requested by customers – with a passionate commitment to innovation and user experience | Development, Podcasts, Reporting, Social Computing, Workflow |
| Omada SharePoint Governance Manager | Omada SharePoint Governance Manager is a solution that saves you administrative headaches through effective implementation of permissions and site creation policies, delivering a secure and high-performance workspace for employees and business partners.
| Extranet, Governance/Compliance, Operations, Utilities |