Yes, between Sex and Shopping is SharePoint.

Have a look if you don't believe me: http://alltop.com/

Another sign how how mainstream SharePoint has become. But what is interesting is it is now more than a technology, or platform, or application. It is a topic of interest, a pursuit, some thing that belongs in a list between Sex and Shopping. That's it, SharePoint has officially Made It.

Labels: General

The new update MS has posted here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx is designed to fix the may problems with Content Deployment, as well as adding the federated search functionality, and a few other bug fixes. It is recommended everyone install it, so go to it!

Labels: update

Support in your organisation should have the following training or knowledge, I've divided support into three levels:

Level 1 Support
1. Understand the main content management concepts in SharePoint.
These are check in/out, version control (even though it is not enabled), approval/feedback workflows and how to recover deleted items from the recycle bin.
2. Understand the main structural terminology in SharePoint
These are Document Libraries, Lists, Columns and Views

There are relevant free online courses here like “SharePoint Document Libraries 1: Introduction to Sharing Files”

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR102146081033.aspx?stt=1

Level 2 Support
Understand the concepts of access management in SharePoint
These are SharePoint Groups and Roles, inheritance, item level permissions and the principle of least privilege.
Understand the broader structural concepts in SharePoint
These include Site Collections, Quotas, Subsites, the Site collection Recyle bin.

Training is available here, not free, but a good course: https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=74137

Level 3 Support
This level requires knowledge of the SharePoint platform as a whole:

Manage SharePoint operations in MOSS 2007 by configuring farm topology and services, global configuration options, and SSO.
Describe the global settings available for a Web application, considerations for managing the session state for SSPs, and the best practices for managing site collections.
Describe user profiles, user profile properties, profile policies, and global settings and solutions offered by a My Sites site in MOSS 2007.
Configure audiences to target content in MOSS 2007.
Configure search and indexing in MOSS 2007 by defining the search service settings and managing the search experience for end users.

The primary function will be installing patches and service packs, management of the database back end will be performed by the SQL Server Admin.

Third party companies should manage the code they developed and ensure it stays compatible with SharePoint as Microsoft adds patches.

There is some advanced training here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc299032.aspx

Free online training is available here for reference. This would have to be installed on a SharePoint server and requires SQL Server 2005, but it does provide a training portal in SharePoint for reference via SharePoint itself.: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=673DC932-626A-4E59-9DCA-16D685600A51&displaylang=en

Labels: Support

Regarding adding podcasting functionality to SharePoint, I think this will happen more as people see the advantages. You can record meetings for people to play back in the car or the gym. I mean just audio here of course! It would also be useful to video meetings or presentations and then allow people to sync them via a device with podcasting functionality like my Zune.

http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart/PodcastingKitForSharePointPKS.aspx

Labels: podcasting