My Useful SharePoint 2010 Resources

Understanding the Basics of Collaboration in SharePoint 2010

• Microsoft SharePoint Designer team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/
• “Gartner Predicts That by 2013, More Than 25 Percent of the Content That Workers See in a Day Will Be Dominated by Pictures, Video or Audio” at http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=834213
• “SharePoint Formulas in Calculated Columns” at http://blogs.msdn.com/mcsnoiwb/archive/2008/05/04/sharepoint-formulas-in-calculated-columns.aspx
• “Changes in SharePoint Designer 2010” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179083.aspx
• “Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010” video at http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/getting-started-sharepoint-2010-creating-workflows-with-sharepoint-designer/10ts7flgd
• Office 2010 at http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx
• SharePoint 2010 Technologies Page at http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx
• System requirements and what’s new in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263910.aspx#tab=1
• System requirements and what’s new in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx

Understanding the Architecture of SharePoint 2010

• SharePoint 2010 SDK at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557253(office.14).aspx
• “Microsoft in the Enterprise” guide at http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/8/8/B8804100-DA41-4771-BE70-FE878ED51AAB/2009-2010.MSFTintheEnterprise.ResourceGuide.11.09.pdf

Optimizing SQL Server for a SharePoint 2010 Implementation

• SQL Server 2005 features: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/top-30-features.aspx
• SQL Server 2008 features: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/whats-new.aspx

Installing SharePoint 2010

• 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter editions and WCF hotfix at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=166231
• 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter editions with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and the WCF hotfix at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=160770
• “SharePoint Server 2010 Hardware and Software Requirements” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.14).aspx#section4/
• KB article “How do I open the firewall port for SQL Server on Windows Server 2008?” at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968872

Using Windows PowerShell to Perform and Automate Farm Administrative Tasks

• “SharePoint Automation Source Code” at http://stsadm.codeplex.com/
• “SharePoint Management, PowerShell scripts” at http://sharepointpsscripts.codeplex.com/
• “PowerShell SharePoint Provider” at http://www.codeplex.com/PSSharePoint/
• “What’s New in Windows PowerShell” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378784.aspx
• “Windows PowerShell” information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
• “Scripting with Windows PowerShell” on the Microsoft TechNet Script Center at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd742419.aspx
• Windows PowerShell bloggers at http://pipes.yahoo.com/powershell/englishbloggers
• “Windows PowerShell” free ebook at Microsoft at http://blogs.msdn.com/mapo/archive/2007/07/17/windows-powershell-free-ebook-at-microsoft.aspx
• “Mastering PowerShell,” by Dr. Tobias Weltner, a free eBook at http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/07/17/free-powershell-v1-book-from-the-makers-of-powershell-plus.aspx
• Windows Management Framework (Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0) at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/968929
• “Heading Off Malicious Code” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.01.powershell.aspx
• “ALLSigned: Signing Your PowerShell Scripts” blog post by Zach Rosenfield at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/zach/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=53
• Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
• “What’s New in Group Policy” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd367853.aspx
• Windows Server 2008 (R2) Blog by Kurt Roggen [BE]: http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk/archive/2009/06/08/installing-windows-7-rsat-unattended.aspx
• “PowerShell remoting between two workgroup machines” at http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/archive/2009/07/24/powershell-remoting-between-two-workgroup-machines.aspx
• “Multi-Hop Support in WinRM” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee309365(VS.85).aspx

Organizing Information

• Mark Schneider’s SharePoint Taxonomy and Governance Blog at http://sharepointplan.com
• “SharePoint Survey: How Organizations are Staffing Their SharePoint Teams” at http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Bill/archive/2010/03/06/SharePoint-Survey[coln]-How-Organizations-are-Staffing-Their-SharePoint-Teams.aspx
• Governance Resource Center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb507202.aspx
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) at http://www.dublincore.org
• Oline community for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture OASIS Standard at http://dita.xml.org
• Taxonomy Warehouse at http://taxonomywarehouse.com
• MIKE2.0, The Open Source Standard for Information Management, at http://mike2.openmethodology.org
• AIIM at http://www.aiim.org

Collaboration and Portals

• “Manage a wiki using SharePoint” at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=168889

Search Server 2010 and FAST Search: Architecture and Administration

• Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch
• “Create a custom dictionary (SharePoint Server 2010)” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263242.aspx
• “Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Indexing Connector for Documentum” at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=32d0980a-4b9a-4b0d-868e-9be9c0d75435
• “Regular Expression Basic Syntax Reference” at http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html
• “Newly published content for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686963.aspx

Using Windows PowerShell to Manage Search Services and FAST Search

• “SP+PS 2010: PowerShell to Create a Service Application” at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/zach/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=50
• “Supporting –WhatIf, –Confirm, –Verbose—in SCRIPTS!” at http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/02/25/supporting-whatif-confirm-verbose-in-scripts.aspx

Customizing the Search Results and Search Center

• “Managed metadata input file format (SharePoint Server 2010)” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424396(office.14).aspx
• “Regular Expression Basic Syntax Reference” at http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html
• Expresso 3.0 at http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

Administering Web Content Management and Publishing

• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 at http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com
• IIS Media Services Readme with links to “Bit Rate Throttling” at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131775

Securing Information

• “Access Control in Active Directory” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785913(WS.10).aspx
• “Add-SPShellAdmin” TechNet article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607596.aspx
• “Set permission to a published service application (SharePoint Foundation 2010)” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff700210.aspx

Aggregating External Data Sources

• “Business Connectivity Services: Sample XML and Code Examples” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee559369(office.14).aspx
• “Business Connectivity Services security overview (SharePoint Server 2010)” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee661743.aspx
• “Permissions in Business Connectivity Services” at http://blogs.msdn.com/bcs/archive/2009/11/24/permissions-in-business-connectivity-services.aspx
• “Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP” at http://blogs.msdn.com/bcs/archive/2009/11/24/duet-enterprise-for-microsoft-sharepoint-and-sap.aspx

Web Parts and Their Functionality in SharePoint 2010

• ULS Viewer down load at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer
• RSS Advisory Board, RSS 2.0 Specification, at http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification

Publishing SharePoint 2010 to Mobile Devices

• “Editing Domain-Based GPOs Using ADMX files” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748955(WS.10).aspx
• Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) documentation at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff358694.aspx

Business Intelligence, Reporting Services, and PerformancePoint Services

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services at http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/reporting.aspx
• “Planning a Deployment Mode” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326345.aspx
• “Reporting Services Log Files” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157403.aspx
• “Configuration Files (Reporting Services)” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155866.aspx
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint 2010 download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=16bb10f9-3acc-4551-bacc-bdd266da1d45&displaylang=en

Upgrading to SharePoint 2010

• “Migrate an Existing Server Farm to a 64-Bit Environment (Office SharePoint Server 2007)” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd622865.aspx
• Migration and Upgrade Resource Center for Office SharePoint Server 2007 at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=104403
• “Migrate a stand-alone installation to a server farm installation (Office SharePoint Server 2007)” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262325.aspx