Windows Live ID Authentication for SharePoint

This is a SharePoint feature that allows you to enable your site with Windows Live ID authentication and take advantage of the huge number of already registered Windows Live ID users.

A great feature available on CodePlex

Create a SharePoint Site plan in less than 5 minutes

The screencast below is a five minute quick hit on how you might choose to utilize Mind Manager to do on the fly site planning with your team or client

Run SQL Queries and Fetch List Data from SharePoint Database (WSS_Content)

The information in a list is stored in the UserData table (which is an odd name for the table), and the lists themselves are stored in the Lists table. A list in the database has a GUID representation. Read more...

Embed Video and Audio files in the SharePoint Environment

This article was written in reference to:
How to add a movie player to MOSS
Video streaming in SharePoint

Customizable Everyday Productivity Education

These simple, easy-to-use customizable job aids were created by Microsoft's internal IT group to help employees get started with learning more about using a technology or product effectively, selecting the right product or service, or reviewing best practices. The content for Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System were published a couple of months ago, and I (and likely most of you) somehow missed it. The EPE home page is at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687781.aspx, but for your convenience, I've listed the SharePoint specific content below.
Collaboration Selection Guide
Collaborating with SharePoint Server 2007 Overview
SharePoint Server 2007 Sites and Workspaces Selection Guide
SharePoint Server 2007 Document Collaboration Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 Team Sites Get Started
Customizing a SharePoint Server 2007 Site Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts Learn More
SharePoint Server 2007 Meeting Workspaces Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 My Sites Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 Site Access and Storage Learn More
SharePoint Server 2007 Surveys Get Started
Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Overview
Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Get Started
Using InfoPath 2007 Forms on a SharePoint Server 2007 Site Get Started

Alerts Based on Views

In SharePoint 2007, alerts can be set up based on filtered (specific) data, using views!
This applies to any SharePoint document library or list (contacts, calendars, tasks, etc.). The following example will include how this is done on a document library with custom fields.
This applies to any SharePoint document library or list (contacts, calendars, tasks, etc.). The following example will include how this is done on a document library with custom fields.

Example Case

• An example hospital has different floors on their hospital. They have created a new field in the Patient Admissions list called “Floor”. Users are given a drop-down box of options for what floor a patient is admitted to. Users would like to know if they can set up Patient Admissions list alerts so that they are only notified when patients are admitted to THEIR floor. SURE THEY CAN!
• First, the appropriate VIEWS need to be created, one for each “floor”. Create 4 new views for: 1 North, 1 South, 2 North, 2 South
• The first view will have a filter of: Show the items when column Floor is equal to 1 NorthCreate the other 3 views with filtering for each of their appropriate floor names

Creating the Alerts.

• On the Patient Admissions list, click and choose
• In the Send alerts for these changes section, choose the very last option called “Someone changes an item that appears in the following view”
• Then, in the drop-down box for that option, choose the name of the floor for which you’d like to receive alerts.
• In summary, any data in any field of your list can be filtered into a View. Alerts can be created based on any *filtered* view, even “Personal” views.

Oh, and another good way to use this feature would be on an Announcements list. Each announcement would have a category, such as the department that the announcement is targeted to. Create a view for each category. This way, your users can set up their own alerts on the announcements list, and choose to only be alerted when a new one is added for their department.

Improving the SharePoint print experience

The ability to print web pages has been available for years. Comparing it to the transition that most browsers have gone through, there is very little that has changed about how web pages are printed.
While moving the digital version of a page to its paper equivalent, important information is not accessible to the print job. Luckily you can quite easily provide your visitors with a richer printing experience using no more than a couple of lines of JavaScript. Click to find the answer how???

Dual Authentication for SharePoint

This article will help to understand how we can apply dual authentication on a single SharePoint site.
This is the first article I read on Andrew Connell's blog and after that I never stop following him.

Comperision on MOSS-2007 Vs. WSS 3.0

Lots of time we faced questions related to what is there in MOSS-2007 which is not available free with WSS 3.0. This article will help you to find out the clear comparison on that.

Multilingual site in SharePoint

On one fine day morning I was asked by my manager to implement Multilingual for one of the site. I was bit worried and started searching and thanks to google I come across one of the best article which will help you to implement multilingual for SharePoint sites.
I came across one editor as well which will help you for SharePoint Variations.

Site Collection in SharePoint

There is a real confusion around the word Site Collection in SharePoint. I tried to find out the answer for that and I found this article