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Speed up SharePoint list views by grouping data in calculated columns

Webcast: MSDN Building Collaborative Applications Without Code Using Office SharePoint Designer 2007

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Survey pulling in URL Querystring Data with Hidden Fields(!!), Anonymous Access

IWHOL300: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - CSS and the Data Form Web Part

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SharePoint 101: Styling the Site Actions menu

Phil’s Top 10 Best Practices for Branding SharePoint (Part 1 of 10)

Webcast: Making SharePoint Not Look Like SharePoint with Paul Stork

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The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team blog. Topics include the Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express and its features, the OpenSearch standard, the SharePointPedia (community driven content and requests), setting up a profile on SharePointPedia, submitting and recommending content to SharePointPedia, feedback questions and ideas, site information, Windows Server 2008 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 update, integrating SharePoint with other portals and applications, consumer and produced links, email, RSS, IFrames (HTML elements for displaying HTML pages), Web Services for Remote Products (WSRP), web services, search, AJAX, enabling and managing social networks (for business) with MOSS 2007, an overview of social networking, MOSS social networking features, social networking in MOSS 2007, social networking components, organizational hierarchy, SharePoint backup and restore resources, SharePoint forums, training, Popfly (Microsoft online mashup tool), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Web 2.0, and more.

"Getting Started with SharePoint Technologies," by Robert Holmes. Discusses getting started with SharePoint, preliminary considerations, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), groups, enterprise content management (ECM), business intelligence (BI), workflows (WF), site collections, users, and site structure.

Article: "Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites," from Microsoft Office Online. Discusses what role-based templates for SharePoint My Sites are, administrative assistant template, controller-financial analysis template, customer service manager template, HR manager template, IT manager template, marketing manager template, sales account manager template and role-based templates for SharePoint My Sites.

Article: "Build a SharePoint Newsletter Generator That Alerts Users to Changes," by Jeffrey Juday. Discusses Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), the newspaper application, SharePoint changes, the SharePoint SDK classes, applying the SharePoint SDK, security considerations, extending the newsletter, and keeping the SharePoint users updated.

Article: “Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services: Creating Custom Administration Tools,” from MSDN. Discusses accessing administrative methods, creating the TopSites web part, declaring namespaces and class variables, overriding the CreateChildControls method, writing the RepostLoaded event handler, writing the BtnAddClick event handler, writing the ListSites method, overriding the RenderWebPart method, and building, installing and testing the web part

SharePoint Server page on the Microsoft site. Information includes help, product information (overview, benefits, features, and buying information), how-to, training, templates, related products and technologies, resources, customer stories, SharePointPedia (community site), white papers, news, tools and links and more.

"SharePoint Security: Code Access Security in MOSS," from ARB Security Solutions. Discusses what code access security is and why its exists, the code access security architecture; code access security, SharePoint and code permissions, first-class permission objects, code access security evidence, an example of a permission class web part file I/O permission; and code access security, evidence and SharePoint.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server news and reviews site. Topics include the Microsoft Search Server Express 2007, the SharePoint Server 2007 turning point, Web 2.0 enhancements in SharePoint, social computing with SharePoint, the SharePoint content management system, and product reviews.

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Patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance  The release included a library of reusable components, a guide, and a new reference implementation of a Partner Portal application.

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