Video Tips on SharePoint Designer

Got some very nice and useful video tips on Microsoft side on SharePoint Designer:

Creating Workplaces and Sharing Info on Long-Term Projects
Create sites where we share and store information.

How to Sync PowerPoint 2007 Presentations with SharePoint Server 2007
Shows how to add slides to a SharePoint Slide Library and get those files off of the library later.

Managing Documents in SharePoint Server 2007
Introduction to SharePoint Server 2007.

Versioning with SharePoint Server 2007
How to use versioning to revert documents back to file versions saved during previous work sessions.

Working Offline SharePoint Server 2007
How to create an offline copy in outlook to work on when not connected to the network.

Using SharePoint Server 2007 with OneNote 2007
Using Synchronized Notebooks so you can edit one set of notes on multiple computers.

Integrating SharePoint Server and the 2007 Office System
Use Excel Services to publish information out to Excel Web Access.

Also see Consolidated Training Material on SharePoint

Various Activities while Executing SharePoint Configuration Wizard

There are 9 steps occurs while running the Configuration Wizard after installing the SharePoint. All the changes in IIS and database creation happens in these steps.

Following are the actions which happens during the Configuration Wizard:

Step 1. SharePoint products and technologies configuration gets initialized.

Step 2. The Configuration Database is created for the SharePoint Farm.

Step 3. Now Help collections are Installed.

Step 4. Resources for SharePoint are secured now.

Step 5. SharePoint Services are installed and registered in this step.

Step 6. SharePoint Features are installed and registered in this step.

Step 7. The SharePoint Central Administration Web Application is provisioned.

Step 8. The Files for Web application is installed.

Step 9. SharePoint products and technologies configuration is finalized. The IIS gets reset.

Learn SharePoint Administration with Questions

I have consolidated some questions on SharePoint Administration on:

http://mossadmins.blogspot.com/

The questions are helpful to learn basics of SharePoint Administrations. Also these questions will be very helpful to prepare for the interviews on SharePoint Administrations.

These questions also helps for the people writing SharePoint Certifications such as 70-630 and 70-631.