Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server "How Do I?" Videos

SharePoint Products and Technologies "How Do I?" Videos

Learn more about Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with these short “How Do I?” videos that focus on specific tasks and how to accomplish them. Tasks include how to configure Forefront Security for SharePoint, how to install and configure SharePoint Server, and how to enable and configure e-mail with Windows SharePoint Services.

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How Do I: Configure Search Indexing?

In this video, Hilton Giesenow demonstrates how to configure search indexing settings in your Shared Services Provider to index the content of your MOSS web application. The video looks at using the Search site template and also at indexing external content, specifically a network file share.

Presented by Hilton Giesenow http://hilton.giesenow.com/
Thursday, Jan 29, 2009

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Length: 18 Minutes 8 seconds

How Do I: Use the Permission Reporting Tool?
Part of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit from Microsoft, the Permission Reporting Tool provides various components to help better understand how security is being derived and applied across and within sites, lists and item. The tool includes three components – the Compare Permissions Sets function, the Check Effective Permissions function and the Broken Inheritance Reports function. In this video Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us through installing the Permission Reporting Tool (including the required cumulative update) as well as looking at each of these three functions in turn.
Monday, Nov 23

How Do I: Use the SPDiag Tool to Analyze my SharePoint Farm?
Part of the latest SharePoint Administration Toolkit from Microsoft, the SharePoint Diagnostic (SPDiag) tool provides a wealth of information of all kinds across the entire server farm, offering both static and trend analysis and reporting as well as real-time details to assist in analysis, planning and problem avoidance and resolution. In this video Hilton Giesenow (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us through downloading, installing and setting configuring the tool, and looks at how to use some of its features.
Tuesday, Jul 7

How Do I: Work with Document Templates?
Rather than work with a standard, blank Word, Excel or PowerPoint template off the “New” button in a document library in Windows SharePoint Services,wouldn’t you rather offer your users the ability to create new documents using a more customized company template? Better yet, why not offer multiple predefined templates in the same library, perhaps with a specific set of metadata fields? Join Hilton Giesenow, host of The Moss Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) as he explores various ways to customize the templates used in a document library, within a site, or across an entire site collection.
Wednesday, Jun 24

How Do I: Integrate My SharePoint Lists with the Microsoft Office Outlook Client?
Windows SharePoint Services provides for very powerful integration between the Microsoft Office Outlook client and Windows SharePoint Services, enabling users to reuse their existing skills within Outlook, providing offline storage and synchronisation, and adding additional business value. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The Moss Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) explores how to configure this integration, use the additional features, and resolve synchronisation conflicts.
Tuesday, Jun 23

How Do I: Migrate the Configuration Database ?
In this video Hilton Giesenow (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us step by step through the process of migrating a configuration database from one SQL Server (or SQL instance) to another.
Tuesday, Jun 23

How Do I: Install Windows SharePoint Services on Windows Vista?
In this video Mark Wilson shows you how to install Windows SharePoint Services on Windows Vista. Whilst this is not a supported configuration, it is something that can be very useful to SharePoint developers, perhaps working offline, and can be a useful trick to have up your sleeve.
Tuesday, Jun 23

How Do I: Migrate a Content Database?
In this video Hilton Giesenow (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us step by step through the process of migrating a content database from one SQL Server (or instance) to another.
Tuesday, Jun 23

How Do I: Use Master Pages to Customize the Look and Feel of my Site?
Master Page files allow you to customize the look and feel of a Windows SharePoint Services site in a standardized, centralized way. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The Moss Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) has a look at how to customize the existing Master Pages in a site, use both Default and Custom master page options, and import an external Master Page and related graphics and style for use in your site.
Tuesday, Jun 23

How Do I: Work With Solutions Packages?
Solution Packages are SharePoint preferred mode of deploying functionality and components, including, for instance, Web Parts, Features, and Web Services. There are a few steps required to install and deploy these packages though, and that’s just part of the story. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The Moss Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes a look at how to deploy, amend and upgrade solution packages, including upgrading functionality and adding language packs.
Tuesday, Jun 23

How Do I: Administer My SharePoint Farm Using Windows PowerShell?
PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation, administrator-focused command-line scripting environment. Providing for full access to the SharePoint API, PowerShell unlocks the potential to interact directly with SharePoint to manipulate web applications, site collections, sites, lists and more. In addition, the ability to script these commands and compile a toolbox of these scripts makes for an improved experience in administering Windows SharePoint Server. In this video, Hilton Giesenow (http://hilton.giesenow.com/) looks at how to get started with PowerShell and SharePoint, and takes us through a few sample site collection, list and web application commands. My site: http://www.TheMossShow.com/
Thursday, May 21

How Do I: Install Service Pack 2?
Earlier this year, Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This service pack includes a variety of updates, fixes and improvements to these products but installing a Service Pack, Infrastructure Update or Cumulative Update for SharePoint can involve a few different steps. Also, different approaches exist for doing these updates. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us through creating a “Slipstream” installation, upgrading an existing WSS installation, and looking at how we can stage these updates across the various content databases in the farm.
Thursday, Jan 28

How Do I: Enhance User Profiles with BDC Data?
In previous videos in this series we’ve looked at how to configure the User Profile Import to import user profile information from Microsoft Active Directory. We’ve also looked at how to configure Business Data Catalog (BDC) connections. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) shows us how to bring these two together to enhance user profile data with additional data from external Line of Business (LOB) systems.
Thursday, Jan 28

How Do I: Configure My Sites On My SharePoint Server 2007 Farm?
The My Sites functionality in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a rich location for users to interact, identify colleagues, store personal information, etc. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) looks at creating a new My Sites web application, targeting the My Sites link to specific users and creating shared My Sites menu items.
Tuesday, Jan 26

How Do I: Configure Federated Search in SharePoint Server 2007?
Included as part of the July 2008 Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as well as the Microsoft Search Server 2008 products, Federated Search allows users of these enterprise search products to simultaneously issue searches to multiple content sources. It supports both SharePoint and OpenSearch-compliant sources and it renders the results of these searches directly as part of the presentation of the regular search results. This video, presented by Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us through configuring 3rd party federated locations, such as those available from the Search Connectors page (http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-connectors.aspx) as well as configuring and using a custom-developed internal federated location."
Monday, Jan 25

How Do I: Install and Configure Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express?
Microsoft’s powerful Enterprise Search capability was originally restricted to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, but this rich feature set is now also available within the dedicated Search Server range of products. Join Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) as we look at installing, configuring and using Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express. The video covers setting up a new search center as well as configuring existing SharePoint sites.
Friday, Jan 22

How Do I: Create a KPI List and KPI Dashboard?
Join, Hilton Giesenow, host of The Moss Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) as he explores how to create a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) list in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In the video, we explore how to create various types of KPIs (manual, based on SharePoint lists, and based on an Excel workbook in an Excel Services Trusted Location) and how to create a KPI dashboard based on the list of KPIs.
Wednesday, Jun 24

How Do I: Create and Configure a Business Data Catalog?
This video shows how to integrate data external to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by building a Business Data Catalog.
Wednesday, Jun 24

Using Search Scopes
Enterprise Search - the ability to search content from several sources across your enterprise- is one of the most valuable tools included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. However, as you increase the amount of information indexed by the search engine, you increase the number of potential results from a search query. When search starts to return hundreds or thousands of results, the ability to find information quickly and easily is diminished. To address this issue, SharePoint Server allows you to narrow the search results returned to users executing a search via Search Scopes. In this video, Rob Windsor will demonstrate how to use the built-in search scopes and how to create and configure custom search scopes at the Web Application or Site Collection level.
Tuesday, Jun 23

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