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Did you know that MOSS 2007 gives you the ability to search across all your content sources, network shares, internet searches, etc and put them all together into one search interface. Well how about we go one step further and you can learn how to create a reseller dashboard ...

Microsoft has just released 5 new SharePoint Server 2007 guides. All 5 guides will provide you step by step instructions on the following: System requirements for single and two server installations Where to download Prerequisites Audience creation Business Data Catalog (BDC) configuration Creating a site from the site template Configuring the site (excel services, web parts, etc.) Uninstalling the template SharePoint Server 2007 Guides Setting Up the Role-Based My Site Template for Customer Service Managers - The Customer Service Manager template helps you streamline the process of monitoring performance and enables the quick decision making that is usually required when addressing a customer's complaints. The template provides a graphical view displaying call distribution, service performance, operation costs, and representative quality indicators. The template helps you review order status and also displays key performance indicators for customer satisfaction and vendor performance. The Role-Based My Site template is designed to help customer service managers attain their goal of 100-percent customer satisfaction. (Direct download - Setup Customer Service Manager.doc) This setup document provides step-by-step instructions to initialize the Customer Service Manager template for Office SharePoint Server 2007. Setting Up the Role-Based My Site Template for HR Managers - The HR Manager template helps keep a tab on the employee composition and distribution within the organization. During the performance review cycle, the template provides information on the status of performance reviews and helps the HR Manager in quickly identifying bottlenecks associated with it. As a part of employee engagement, the template displays various activities conducted on a monthly basis. It also displays details about training conducted for employees under various categories, info about attrition rates at the organization and business unit level, shows job opening details and employee referrals along with interview schedules for hiring to help with recruitment management. (Direct download - Setup HR Manager.doc) This setup document provides step-by-step instructions to initialize the HR Manager template for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Last week, I notified you of the Just Released! Visual How To’s for SharePoint 2007 on MSDN, this week I just wanted to give you another heads up. Microsoft has just posted the an additional set of Office Visual How To Videos for SharePoint 2007 on MSDN. These new articles describe everything in full detail, explaining ste-by-step on how to achieve the desired result. All the code is available for your copying and pasting needs, plus new is the visual how to videos, as well as related links. Here is the list of Visual How To’s that have just been released: Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search Creating Managed-Code UDFs for Excel Services Refining Business Data Catalog Search with Scopes

Microsoft has just posted the first Office Visual How To Videos for SharePoint 2007 on MSDN. These new articles describe everything in full detail, explaining ste-by-step on how to achieve the desired result. All the code is available for your copying and pasting needs, plus new is the visual how to videos, as well as related links. Here is the list of Visual How To's that have just been released: Filtering One Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007 Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007 Retrieving an Entire Workbook or a Snapshot of a Workbook in Excel Services

Ted Pattison Group's has created a series of screencasts (i.e. how-to videos) for Microsoft's Channel 9 and for the MSDN Office Developers Center to assist developers getting up to speed with various development techniques related to Office 2007 and SharePoint Technologies. The philosophy behind these screencasts is to jump ...

Microsoft has just released 10 FREE courses that walk every user on how to use Office 2007. Course 4697: Introduction to the New Microsoft Office User Interface In this course, you will learn about the changes to the user interface and how to use the new customization tools. Additionally, you will gain ...

Stephen Sowyer write in a recent article on Q&A With Microsoft’s Office BI Point Main with Office BI Guru Alex Payne...here's an excerpt: You've also talked up a much bigger role, BI-wise, at least, for SharePoint Yes. One of the ...