Book Excerpt: SharePoint 2007 How-To
This handy guide provides quick answers to many commonly asked questions about SharePoint. Read Chapter 2, "Finding Your Way Around a SharePoint Site" to get a good feel for the book's coverage.
Achieving Sustainable SharePoint Governance
Creating a sustainable governance model for your SharePoint deployment helps your portal permanently displace older, less-effective, decentralized information-sharing practices.
SharePoint AppliedStsadm Is Your Friend
I am a self-confessed command line junkie. Sure, I see value in GUIsand they're great for getting accustomed to a toolbut after crawling, the command line lets you walk, run, and then fly!
Troubleshooting Web Parts and Deployment
While SharePoint has become tremendously popular precisely because it makes so many laborious tasks so easy, deployment of Web parts can be surprisingly thorny. The trick lies in knowing what STSADM, the command line tool generally used for installing Web parts from a CAB file, is looking for and making sure it's all packaged up properly.
Master Advanced List Editing in SharePoint
Sometimes SharePoint's built-in editing tools aren't enough. But if you want to customize your lists you'll need to know a good bit about how SharePoint works under the covers. This article will tell you everything you need to know to perform custom list editing for your Web parts.
Push the Limits of SharePoint Customization
Now that the SharePoint API is fully .NET-based, you've gained access to almost the entire SharePoint object model. Learn how to use this new functionality while building a very simple console application using C# and the .NET Framework.
Wrangling SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio
SharePoint and Workflow may be the most powerful combination since chocolate and peanut butter, but the trick is harnessing their combined power. That isn't as easy as it first seems, but in this article you'll learn how create a SharePoint workflow in Visual Studio from start to finish.
Customize a SharePoint Login Page
Go beyond the complexities of working with SharePoint, and discover how to create a custom login page that you can associate with unique code.
SharePoint Site Definitions: Why You Need Them and How to Use Them
The site definition process in SharePoint is complex, but very flexible. Techniques such as "ghosting" can save you a lot of server space and beef up performance. But you need to understand when and how to use site definitions in order to avoid unintended consequences down the line.
