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Which End User Training Videos Provide Required Instruction for Subsite Owners for SharePoint 2010?

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As we have noted in a blog post that immediately precedes this entry, a Library entry to Technet, User Permissions and Permission Levels (SharePoint Server 2010) provides us with a useful method of sorting our collection of 105 short tutorials for so-called end users, readers and subsite owners of SharePoint Server 2010. Our previous post listed 9 video tutorials from our set that are specific for readers. We broke these 9 tutorials down into a set of 5 tutorials specific to activities that readers will engage in for SharePoint Server 2010 lists, and another 4 tutorials specific to activities around SharePoint sites.

SharePoint Server 2010 subsite owners design sites. The 39 tutorials from our set that communicate technical best practices for subsite owners include:

  • Creating a Discussion Board (this tutorial has a duplicate application for contributors, or end users who work with lists)
  • Creating a Links List (ditto)
  • Navigating Between SharePoint Sites (this tutorial has a duplicate application for readers)
  • Creating a Web Page
  • Editing a Web Page
  • Checking Out a Web Page for Editing
  • Working with Images on Web Pages
  • Working with Tables on Web Pages
  • Linking to Other Site Content
  • Adding a Video to a Web Page
  • Restoring an Older Version of a Web Page
  • Change the Layout of a Web Page
  • Change the Permissions for a Web Page
  • Make a Page the Home Page of the Site
  • Adding Lists and Libraries to Web Pages(this tutorial has a duplicate application for contributors, or end users who work with lists)
  • Deleting a Web Page
  • Recovering a deleted Web Pag
  • Creating a Web Part Page
  • Personalizing a Web Part Page
  • Customizing a Web Part Page
  • Configuring the Mobile View of a Web Page (shared with readers)
  • Open a Web Page in Maintenance View (shared with contributors or end users)
  • Insert Text on web part pages using Content Editor Web Part
  • Creating a Publishing Site
  • Changing the Page Layout of a Publishing Page
  • Creating a Subsite
  • Creating a SharePoint Theme Using the Browser
  • Configuring Site Columns
  • Configuring the tree view for a site
  • Configuring the Top Link Bar
  • Deleting a Site
  • Viewing Usage Statistics for a site (shared with readers)
  • Remove users from a site
  • Editing Permissions for a user group
  • Create a new SharePoint user group
  • Save a site as a template
  • Create a new site using a site template
  • Change a site logo
  • Signing in as a different user

The above list can be sorted further into smaller, more manageable lists of training topics; for example the 23 training topics specific to subsite design:

  • Creating a Web Page
  • Editing a Web Page
  • Checking Out a Web Page for Editing
  • Working with Images on Web Pages
  • Working with Tables on Web Pages
  • Linking to Other Site Content
  • Adding a Video to a Web Page
  • Change the Layout of a Web Page
  • Creating a Web Part Page
  • Personalizing a Web Part Page
  • Customizing a Web Part Page
  • Configuring the Mobile View of a Web Page (shared with readers)
  • Insert Text on web part pages using Content Editor Web Part
  • Creating a Publishing Site
  • Changing the Page Layout of a Publishing Page
  • Creating a Subsite
  • Creating a SharePoint Theme Using the Browser
  • Configuring Site Columns
  • Configuring the tree view for a site
  • Configuring the Top Link Bar
  • Save a site as a template
  • Create a new site using a site template
  • Change a site logo

Can be sorted into a group of 10 tutorials on designing web pages:

  • Working with Images on Web Pages
  • Working with Tables on Web Pages
  • Linking to Other Site Content
  • Adding a Video to a Web Page
  • Change the Layout of a Web Page
  • Configuring the Mobile View of a Web Page (shared with readers)
  • Configuring Site Columns
  • Configuring the tree view for a site
  • Configuring the Top Link Bar
  • Change a site logo

A mere 3 tutorials on designing web part pages:

  • Personalizing a Web Part Page
  • Customizing a Web Part Page
  • Insert Text on web part pages using Content Editor Web Part

Simly one tutorial specific to publishing sites:

  • Changing the Page Layout of a Publishing Page

and finally, 9 tutorials specific to subsite administration:

  • Creating a Web Page
  • Editing a Web Page
  • Checking Out a Web Page for Editing
  • Creating a Subsite
  • Creating a SharePoint Theme Using the Browser
  • Creating a Web Part Page
  • Save a site as a template
  • Create a new site using a site template
  • Creating a Publishing Site

The above sort provides smaller groups of tutorials that promise much greater utility for users. Please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to further a discussion. We are always keen to learn topics of interest to you.

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What Techniques do Readers Need to Master for SharePoint 2010?

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Larger businesses and groups of users in the public sector who are planning an implementation of SharePoint Server 2010 should organize training content around each of the five permission levels included in SharePoint Server 2010. Per an entry to the Technet Library, User Permissions and Permission Levels (SharePoint Server 2010), five levels of permissions have been defined for users of SharePoint Server 2010. These levels include:

  • Limited Access
  • Read
  • Contribute
  • Design
  • Full Control

This Library entry also notes that any site template other than the team site template can include additional permissions. An example is provided for Publishing Sites, which include:

  • Restricted Read
  • Approve
  • Manage Hierarchy

Once video training content for SharePoint 2010 is organized by permission levels, then users at each permission level will be able to expeditiously access required, relevant instruction on tasks of immediate concern. As we have written elsewhere in this blog, users at the lower levels of permissions for SharePoint 2010 have a superficial commitment to SharePoint. This superficial commitment manifests in the form of little patience for scrolling long lists of video tutorials to find the right selection. Therefore, it is incumbent on SharePoint architects (not to mention the business users who stand to benefit from a successful implementation of SharePoint 2010) to sort our extensive set of 105 short video tutorials for Readers, End Users and Subsite Owners of SharePoint 2010 into groups of tutorials directly relevant to each permission level.

For so-called “Readers” we recommend including the following video tutorials in an easily accessible repository (best to use a SharePoint subsite):

  • Subscribing to RSS Feeds of Lists
  • Connect the Contacts List to Outlook
  • EMail a link to a document or a library
  • Navigating between SharePoint Sites
  • Adding a Library to the Quick Launch
  • Opening Documents in the Browser
  • Navigating the mobile view of a site
  • Setting Up Alert Notifications for Pages
  • EMail a link to a web page

Locating a video tutorial from a list of 9 options is far easier to do than would otherwise be the case for a list of 105 options. These 9 tutorials can be organized into even more accessible groups by sorting them by list or site permissions. The above list of 9 tutorials becomes a list of 5 tutorials specific to Lists:

  • Subscribing to RSS Feeds of Lists
  • Connect the Contacts List to Outlook
  • EMail a link to a document or a library
  • Adding a Library to the Quick Launch
  • Opening Documents in the Browser

The remaining 4 video tutorials are all specific to sites:

  • Navigating between SharePoint Sites
  • Navigating the mobile view of a site
  • Setting Up Alert Notifications for Pages
  • EMail a link to a web page

If you share our objective, but have questions, then we encourage you to contact us to further a discussion on our approach. Please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to further a discussion. We are always keen to learn topics of interest to you.

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Architecting Methods of Delivering Training Content Contributes Substantial Value

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We recently had several conversations with Susan Hanley, an Information Architect for Microsoft SharePoint We are largely engaged in the development of technical training content for Microsoft SharePoint in video format. Our catalog of video tutorial content exclusive to SharePoint is unique. Therefore, we welcomed an opportunity to speak with Susan to get her take on what matters for typical SharePoint users on the subject of technical training.

Susan Hanley let us know that she always includes a training component with every engagement. Further, she affirmed our position that training is the best method of bridging the gap between plain, out of the box SharePoint and an enterprise class software workspace rich in valuable cost savings. What we learned from our discussion was the need to design sets of training in a manner that is entirely consistent with the view of the user. Actually, Susan’s point wasn’t new, but when she emphasized the importance of catering to SharePoint users with limited permissions–meaning so-called readers–then we started to take notice.

In fact, we can understand why Susan emphasized the need for a sense of urgency on our part on the need to incorporate the view of readers in our training curricula. After all, for highly regulated businesses, limited permissions for users are more the norm than the exception for SharePoint Server 2010. Therefore, training needs that may otherwise seem trivial are actually quite pressing.

Simple procedures, like SharePoint Search, Susan noted, elude the grasp of users who haven’t the time or the inclination to spend much time locating training. But if we fail to provide them with the training they need to properly search SharePoint document repositories, then we run the risk of losing the SharePoint adoption challenge. If we are committed to demonstrating hard cost savings to management as the result of implementing SharePoint, then we may as well waive the flag of surrender coincidental with abandoning this quest. Bottom line: there is no point implementing SharePoint if users will not avail of its features.

Therefore, including training on deceptively simple subjects like how to search SharePoint and, further, how to run a boolean query across a SharePoint Farm and its document repositories, is mandatory. Further, a set of video training content on this subject and others that are specifically required by SharePoint readers must be offered in a manner that is easily accessed directly from within SharePoint, and in small enough bites that can be quickly scanned to locate just the right tutorial for a need at hand.

The next couple of posts on this blog will look to break out some of our set of 105 video tutorials for so-called end users of SharePoint Server 2010 into manageable chunks of training for different groups of users based around SharePoint Server 2010 permissions. If you appreciate where we’re headed on this thread, please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to further a discussion. We are always keen to learn topics of interest to you.

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A SharePoint Conference Where Business Requirements for SharePoint are Paramount

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For the first time a conference will be held in April of 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia here in the United States, Share, the SharePoint Conference for Business Users with an agenda that is comprised, entirely of:

  • topics specific to Microsoft SharePoint, and
  • presentations from representatives of the business community of SharePoint users, including users, experts, industry spokespersons, etc

We think that attendance at this Share Conference makes sense for members of businesses with a substantial stake in SharePoint who need to be cognizant of industry best practices and of case studies, and success stories that may be useful as new applications or refinements to existing applications for SharePoint are under discussion.

Our view is completely aligned with our own approach to empowering groups of SharePoint users with the training they require to successfully deliver value, in the form of actual cost savings, via an attractive set of group subscription offers to our SharePoint 2010 training content. We have long held the view that without a proper business driver for implementing SharePoint the odds of lots of SharePoint users adopting the platform are slim at best and, typically, not likely. Simply put, we don’t think that “putting up SharePoint” for its own sake makes much sense at all.

On the other hand, given the unique capabilities of SharePoint as a software tool (born and bred from the same Microsoft Office roots as the most popular and pervasively used daily business productivity tools) that can be crafted to provide a workspace that management can use to manage much, if not all of the data (regardless of whether in document, spreadsheet, database, etc format) that fuels the enterprise, it makes total sense, to us, wherever resources permit to allocate time to attend a conference like Share, 2012.

We will be in attendance and welcome opportunities to meet with users who understand the importance of training as a key component of any/all plans for SharePoint that succeed. We are particularly enthused about the Conference Governance tract. We think SharePoint can deliver substantial cost savings to heavily regulated businesses. We see a usable, extensive Governance policy as the linchpin between SharePoint and high levels of user adoption for implementation for this type of business (or organization in the public sector). We are aware of successful case studies in the Finance industry. We are eager to learn about others at Share. If you will be in attendance at Share, and care to explore our take on the importance of training, please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to get together at the conference. We will be happy to discuss this topic at greater length.

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Administering Microsoft Exchange and Lync in Office 365

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Microsoft Exchange and Lync are feature rich applications. Prior to the launch of Microsoft Office 365, it was difficult for small to medium size businesses to obtain the considerable value otherwise available from these services. For example, installing and maintaining Microsoft Exchange for a small business would not make sense on any basis other than a time share (meaning a monthly rental) as the cost of purchasing the server along with the cost of securing technical management services would be far beyond the reach of this class of business customer. Finally, even where Exchange mail services have been secured through Microsoft’s Partner network, the typical client method of accessing services, in other words a GUI dashboard, would not support accessing the very wide range of capabilities inherent to Exchange, Forefront for Outlook, etc.

All of the above has now changed with Office 365. Limited administration capabilities are granted to any/all subscribers. The administration dashboard provides subscribers with the ability to configure:

  • Distribution Groups
  • so-called Room Mailboxes and Equipment Mailboxes
  • Forefront Protection for Exchange for implementing fine-grained rules, tracking IP addresses, verifying receipt of email, and more

As is often the case with Microsoft products, capturing substantial value (for example, utilizing Office 365 to administer contact lists in lieu of using a third party service to do the same at yet another additional cost) depends upon cutting through the fog and understanding what capabilities are now at hand for utilizing email marketing to capture revenue, lower administration costs, etc.

We have taken a step forward precisely as regards cutting through the fog of technical documentation on the management options for Microsoft Exchange and Lync through a series of instructional video tutorials on Office 365 administration, including SharePoint 2010 these video tutorials are available to all subscribers to our online repository of tutorial video content on SharePoint and, now, Office 365. Learn more about our SharePoint-Videos dot com subscription offers. We are comfortable that you will be able to identify an offer that makes sense for your organization.

Assuming that a business subscriber to Office 365 successfully cuts through the training fog, the benefits to be captured include lots of hard dollar cost savings. As we mentioned above, a subscription to Office 365 probably obviates any need for a third party email contact service; therefore, count on saving related costs for Constant Contact® or one of its competitors. Ditto any costs related to a professional DropBox or YouSendIt account, ditto any costs related to a WebEx or GoToMeeting account and much more. In sum, a subscription to Office 365 for a small to medium size business makes lots of sense.

We are very interested in your impression of Office 365, as well as the functionality that you would like to better understand about this offer. Please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to further a discussion about this topic.

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Use a Learning Management System (LMS) to Quantify the Value of Video Training for SharePoint

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Rehmani Consulting Inc produces a set of tutorial videos on computer procedures for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Presently our set of training content for SharePoint in video format comprises over 400 titles. We cover topics like using Active Directory with SharePoint Server 2010, using Audience Targeting with SharePoint and countless more. Our intention is to serve the needs of users who need to quickly locate recorded video tutorials that communicate acknowledged best practices for SharePoint from a single source.

For enterprise business users it is often necessary to demonstrate the actual hard cost value of purchases for IT products and services. We have discussed the reasoning behind this trend in other posts to this blog. To put is simply, identifying actual savings returned by investments in this area of enterprise business procurement has been elusive. Simply put, IT products and services have failed to deliver clear value. Therefore, management has attempted, over the last several years to closely scrutinize purchases of IT products and services to quantify value.

Purchases of content and services for IT training are no exception to this rule. In order to provide the data required to demonstrate value delivered by IT training content, enterprise business customers can avail of a Learning Management System (LMS). A typical LMS will provide management with data about the following activities:

  • Content Usage by Employee/Department/Business Unit

Where a set of exercises and tests have been crafted as an accompaniment for learning content, a typical LMS will also provide data about:

  • the comparative level of content proficiency as a direct result of the use of training content by Employee/Department/Business Unit

When the training content in a typical LMS is comprised of instructional video content like our set, a useful method may be used to determine whether or not it makes sense to include in-person training opportunities, or not, in an enterprise business IT training planning for SharePoint. The catch here is to tightly coordinate exercises and tests with actual business procedures to determine the extent to which users have, or have not, assimilated the training required to correctly perform mandated procedures with SharePoint. If the coordination between exams and procedures is correctly coordinated, and test results indicate a high level of absorption of training content, then it typically makes sense to save an otherwise considerable expense with regard to procuring in person training resources for an organization.

We are keen on discussing whether or not implementing an LMS makes sense for an enterprise business that has opted to look to Sharepoint Server 2010 for an important (or even mission critical) business role. Please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to further a discussion about your interest. We are always keen to learn topics of interest to you.

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Use the Term Store to Enhance the Usefulness of Search in SharePoint

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The Term Store, together with an effort to tag any/all documents in SharePoint document repositories with meta data will deliver a valuable, relevant search feature for SharePoint that can lower any number of costs that would otherwise be incurred to provide a heavily regulated business with a means of ensuring enterprise wide compliance with regulations. Therefore, Term Store, Meta Tagging and Taxonomy are subjects worth looking into for appropriate businesses. In fact we offer a set of video tutorials that provide users with the training required to manage Taxonomies for SharePoint Server 2010″.

It is worth noting here that a library entry to MSDN, Managing Enterprise Metadata in SharePoint Server 2010 (ECM) presents the benefits of successfully tagging documents with meta data. An important point made in the MSDN library entry is that “[m]anaged metadata facilitates more consistent use of terms, and more consistent use of the enterprise keywords that are added to SharePoint Server 2010 items. You can predefine terms, and you can allow only authorized users to add new terms. You can also prohibit users from adding their own enterprise keywords to items, and require them to use existing enterprise keywords. Managed metadata also provides greater accuracy by presenting only a list of correct terms from which users can select values. Because enterprise keywords are also a type of managed metadata, even the enterprise keywords that users apply to items can be more consistent.” We emphasize the fact that this comment illustrates the usefulness of meta tagging documents as a highly useful method of establishing a viable governance system for SharePoint. We think (and many other voices on this topic have also thought) that establishing authority for SharePoint along with an effective governance policy is an essential feature of a successful SharePoint implementation.

But what of the amount of labor required to properly tag documents with meta data? It appears that many SharePoint Server 2010 users lack the corporate “will” to ensure that all documents are meta tagged correctly. Products like Microsoft Fast Search Server for SharePoint are available to deliver relevant search without a requirement that users meta tag documents. There are also offerings from Microsoft Managed Partners like ConceptSearching that also have solutions for crafting SharePoint Search into a tool that produces highly relevant results.

In our opinion the cost of these tools is disproportionately higher than the value they deliver. An enterprise license for Microsoft Fast Search for SharePoint can be as costly as 3 times the expense of SharePoint Server 2010. This licensing cost neither includes the cost of adding hardware to specifically support the Fast Search Server, nor the consulting cost associated with integrating the product and fine tuning its performance.

We think it is far more efficient to implement a governance policy for SharePoint and to avail of the Term Store, managed taxonomies and an effective meta tagging process to derive most, if not all of the relevancy of Fast Search for SharePoint results while still perserving substantial value from a SharePoint Server 2010 implementation.

We very much enjoy opportunities to discuss requirements for SharePoint functionality in a search for value. Please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us. We will be happy to discuss this topic at greater length.

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SharePoint 2010 on-demand video tutorial courses

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Issued on March 21, 2012

Video count: 401 and counting…

SharePoint 2010 on-demand Video Tutorial Courses

We have been busy building out and ‘prettying up’ our SharePoint 2010 on-demand video tutorial courses. This communication is going to be simple and right to the point about those courses.

Following is the list of our current SharePoint 2010 courses:
• SP 101 – The Basics: SharePoint End User Training for Readers, Members & Subsite Owners
• SP 102 – Site Collection Administrator Training.
• SP 201 – SharePoint Designer 2010: Create No-Code Solutions
• SP 202 – SharePoint Designer 2010: Build Powerful Workflows
• SP 203 – InfoPath 2010: Design Electronic SharePoint Forms
• SP 301 – Get access to Line of Business Application Data using Business Connectivity Services
• SP 302 – Build Dashboards and Report on your SharePoint Data using SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2
• SP 303 – SharePoint Branding: Brand and Enhance User Interfaces of SharePoint 2010
• SP 304 – Build and Manage Web Compatible Databases with Access 2010 and Access Services
• SP 305 – Manage Enterprise Metadata with Taxonomy Management in SharePoint 2010
Point your browser here to see them:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/video-categories/sharepoint-2010-training-courses/

These courses are directed at the following audience:
• End Users
• Power Users
• Developers
• IT Professionals
Here are a few ways in which we currently serve organizations with this content:
1. Many corporations have deployed our 105 end user video tutorials to empower their users and reduce the load on their help desk
2. Organizations have empowered their solution creators (power users, developers) by providing corporate/company level access to our site to their personnel with one easy to maintain ‘group id’ that we generate for them
3. Companies have provided access to specific selected courses (listed above) to their users from within their SharePoint portal
4. Consulting companies and SharePoint vendors have provided on-demand training to their own workforce (engineers, sales personnel, etc.) by providing them access to our ever expanding library of video tutorials
If any of the above scenarios can help your organization and you would like to speak further about the opportunities, get in contact with us by emailing us at sales@sharepointelearning.com or calling our VP of business development Michael Blonder at +1 630-786-7026. We can walk you through the possible solutions to see if it’s a good fit for your needs.

A sneak peak at courses coming up in the pipeline
• Office 365
• SharePoint Server Administrators
Is there a specific subject area you would like us to look into that we currently do not offer? Let me know by replying to this email or go to the Contact Us page on our site to provide us feedback.

As always, if you have any feedback about the site or content, feel free to contact me directly at asif@sharepointelearning.com

Best Regards,

Asif
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Implementing Business Connectivity Services, BCS, for SharePoint Delivers Lots of Value for the Right Users

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Not all SharePoint users will derive value from implementing business connectivity services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. In order to capture the substantial value of collecting remote data within SharePoint 2010, in other words, within a common data repository for an enterprise where truly meaningful data analysis can be performed that promise to generate useful actions, an enterprise ought to have a commitment to either operate independent of silos or to operate for the common good of business silos.

Silos, literally groups of users dedicated to specific functions within a business; for example, sales, accounts receivable, loan servicing, etc are an ever present reality for business. As the size of a specific business grows, so grows the role played by each of its silos. Further, it is important to note that silos generally do not want to share all information. In fact, when we recently engaged in a discussion with a Microsoft Partner on the subject of BCS and why BCS is particularly useful if one wants to craft SharePoint 2010 into a truly mission critical business application. We were at first surprised to learn that this partner had done little, if any integration work with BCS for SharePoint 2010. But when this partner articulated their finding that business units within an enterprise were nixing the use of BCS in order to retain complete control over some unit specific information we started to get an accurate picture of the forces at work with regards to this question.

We now look at serious use of BCS as an activity consistent with an objective to implement business process re-engineering (BPR). In other words, and specifically with regard to enterprise business, a consensus should have been reached to pursue BPR. With this consensus in place an enterprise can truly realize very substantial value from implementing BCS. For businesses that meet this qualification, our SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services Training DVD constitutes a very useful tool to empower an appropriate audience of SharePoint Administrators, Site Collection Administrators, Developers and Architects with just the training information that they require to effectively implement BCS across an enterprise business.

In sum, BCS is not appropriate for every organization. If you believe BCS is a technology that you should implement, then please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to further a discussion about your interest in pulling remote data and, in fact, the processing mechanism for remote data processing, into SharePoint 2010. We are always keen to discuss this topic.

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SQL Server Reporting Services are a Natural for SharePoint 2010

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In 2004 Microsoft Corporation debuted SQL Server Reporting Services. James Niccolai of InfoWorld noted in Microsoft Launches SQL Server Reporting Services that demand for this product had reached such a frenzy that an analyst, Phillip Russom of Forrester Research, had note that “some of [these users] were so keen that they went into production with a beta version of the software released [in 2003]“. An interesting feature of this product was its ability to produce reports in HTML format, making it an absolute natural for SharePoint.

In September, 2011 MSDN released a Library entry, Configuring Reporting Services for SharePoint 2010 Integration. As this MSDN entry notes, “You can configure a deployment of SQL Server Reporting Services to work with a deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.” Rehmani Consulting Inc offers tutorial video training on this same topic, Reporting Services Using SharePoint 2010 and Report Builder 3.0. The intended audience for our set are SharePoint or SQL Server 2008 Administrators, Developers and Architects.

We offer an individual use license for this training content at a cost of $195.00. At a a cost of $1995.00 we will provide customers with an enterprise license, which allows an unlimited number of participants to view our training content, usually over an Intranet where our content has been stored in a SharePoint sub site. An enterprise license makes perfect sense for enterprise businesses with 10 or more individuals collaborating in the SQL Server Reporting Services effort. Literally tens of thousands of dollars that would otherwise be expended on in-person training options can be saved through a purchase of an enterprise license for our training content for an audience with the experience set described above. SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint 2010 administrators usually have the background required to make best use of our training content, which is terse, heavy on computer operations, light on abstraction, and free of bobbing heads. Further, organized into 13 tutorial videos, our content affords the user an ability to quickly locate need instruction on demand, meaning precisely when training is required and, specifically, within a SharePoint 2010 workspace.

Equipped with requisite training, SQL Server 2008 and/or SharePoint 2010 personnel will gain the ability to provide business users with the features they require to produce reports suitable for management review and analysis in either HTML, Excel Spreadsheet, or PDF files. Once management has access to familiar, intelligible reports that have been produced directly from business data, the opportunity to gather meaningful business intelligence from accurate historical information will be at hand which, in itself, represent a valuable contribution to business operation.

Please either call us at (630) 786-7026, or Contact Us to further a discussion about your interest in SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint 2010. We are always keen to learn topics of interest to you.

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