Videos - Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Pro Training.

The following videos are taken from the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Pro Training.

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This Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (1 of 11) introduces Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities to IT professionals. Concepts covered include document sharing, lists, alerts, team sites, metadata, and more.

Presented by: John D. Ross, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 54 minutes 15 seconds

VIDEO: 1 | What can SharePoint Server 2010 Do for me?

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This Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (2 of 11) covers software and hardware requirements, and the basic concepts of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Presented by: Randy Drisgill, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 17 minutes 16 seconds

VIDEO: 2 | How SharePoint Server 2010 Works

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (3 of 11), we cover the process of using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to create a single server environment for testing.

Presented by: Todd Klindt, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 54 minutes 15 seconds

VIDEO: 3 | Simple Install for Testing

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (4 of 11), we help you learn about the search capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Learn which content sources you can crawl to create an index, how to schedule crawls, and find out about IFilters for third-party file types.

Presented by: John D. Ross, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 35 minutes 39 seconds

VIDEO: 4 | Search in SharePoint Server 2010

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (5 of 11), we cover new backup features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Learn how to back up your content not only by using the user interface, but also by using Windows PowerShell. You will also learn how to restore content from an unattached database.

Presented by: Shane Young, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 18 minutes 59 seconds

VIDEO: 5 | Backups in SharePoint Server 2010

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (6 of 11), we help you create the first site on a SharePoint farm by using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Learn how to create Web applications, site collections, and Web sites.

Presented by: Randy Drisgill, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 24 minutes 21 seconds

VIDEO: 6 | Creating Your First Web Application, Site Collection and Web Site

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (7 of 11), learn how to give users permissions to the content, as well as who can access Central Administration and manage the service applications.

Presented by: Matthew McDermott, SharePoint MVP, Catapult Systems

Length: 16 minutes 5 seconds

VIDEO: 7 | Security in SharePoint Server 2010

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (8 of 11), we cover Windows PowerShell basics and how administrators can manage Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 by using cmdlets.

Presented by: Todd Klindt, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 30 minutes 48 seconds

VIDEO: 8 | Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Server 2010 Administrators

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (9 of 11), we cover performance-related tools to manage resources, troubleshoot problems, and increase performance in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Presented by: Shane Young, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 23 minutes 23 seconds

VIDEO: 9 | Tools to Optimize the Performance of SharePoint Server 2010

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (10 of 11), we take a look at the upgrade process and options available to go from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

Presented by: Shane Young, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 41 minutes 06 seconds

VIDEO: 10 | Introduction to Upgrade in SharePoint Server 2010

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In this Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (11 of 11), we explore how SharePoint 2010 provides services in a flexible and scalable architecture. Service applications are not just for SharePoint Server; SharePoint Foundation has the architecture as well.

Presented by: Shane Young, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911

Length: 28 minutes 41 seconds

VIDEO: 11 | Service Applications and Topologies in SharePoint Server 2010

Mauricio Duran > www.Sieena.com at Hispanic Entrepreneurs

This is taken from the blog of HISPANIC ENTREPRENEURS:

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Mauricio Duran > www.Sieena.com

Mauricio Duran, Founder, Sieena


What do you need to be an entrepreneur?
You need to have a dream, something that will keep you going every day and helps you understand and manage the risks of running a business. You also need to be passionate about your work, and be willing to go the extra mile to achieve your goals.


What did inspire you to start your business?
We wanted to build a different type of company. We were inspired by the work done by companies like Microsoft and we wanted to build innovative software using talented resources from the Hispanic community. Our vision was to create a company where talented software engineers could enjoy challenging projects and a great work environment. We take particular pride when our solutions get released to the market and they are used by thousands of people around the world.


How did you finance it?
We spent roughly $2,000 to create the company, bought a couple of laptops and a domain. One of our best clients, and a good friend of us, hired us to build a new web application and he gave us a payment in advance. We used the money to get a small office and pay the first salaries.


Being Hispanic…Does it have any influence on your business?
Yes, people enjoy working with our team. The Hispanic culture has a lot of similarities with the US culture. This gives us the opportunity to team up with our clients and work side by side on projects that require frequent, open and direct communication.


In the face of adversity, how do you decide to keep going?
We are lucky to have a great team, including our employees, clients and vendors. Our loyal clients have kept us busy even during the worst economic crisis in the US history. It is easy to wake up in the morning when you know that there are people in the office that are always willing to help, and work hard to meet our client needs.


What is the biggest challenge your business has faced?
Our biggest challenge was to find a niche market where we could specialize. This helped us get a better place in the value chain and offer clear benefits to our clients.


If you could change one thing about your business, what would it be?
There are a few things we are trying to change; we are learning from previous experiences and developing new service offerings, improving our processes and becoming more disciplined about running our business. We started as a young group of software developers and have evolved into managers and directors with different and new responsibilities.


What was your childhood ambition?
I wanted to be a successful architect, but this changed as soon as my parents got me an Atari XE and I started programming.


Tell us about three entrepreneurs that you admire
Without any doubt, the entrepreneur that I admire the most is Bill Gates. I had the opportunity to meet him in the summer of 97. He responded candidly to all our questions and he gave us more than one hour of his time to talk about Microsoft and his vision about business and technology. Another person I really admire is Miguel de Icaza, one of the most talented software developers in the world, and also a successful entrepreneur.


For business meetings: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
All of the above. We spend a lot of time with our clients and we like to invite them out to meet in a relaxed environment.


What sacrifices on your personal life did you have to make in order to become a business success?
I travel frequently and that takes some time away from my family. I am lucky to have wife that understands this and provides the support needed to continue growing the business. It would be hard to focus on business activities without having the right balance between personal, family and work time.


What is your favorite quote?
Your network is your net worth. I read this quote a few years ago and it made me realize how important it has been to maintain a close relationship with the people we work with.


Is it difficult to be unconventional?
We don’t think about ourselves as unconventional. We are hardworking people, and there is no magic sauce for success. We had to learn a lot of things about running a business, including topics like sales and marketing. These were new areas for us, since we all have a background in engineering.


Biggest mistake made?
Our biggest mistake was to focus too much on a single aspect of the business, and not paying attention to other functional areas. We used to work a lot with companies in the real estate industry and we got hit by the financial crisis probably before the rest of our competitors. In a way, this was a good thing because it made us realize that we needed to pay attention to all the areas involved in running a business. Now we have formal sales and marketing organizations, a strong financial and accounting department and well defined HR policies and procedures.


Do you consider yourself an innovator? Why?
Yes, we help our clients build innovative solutions and Sieena has received innovation awards for the work we have done in the past few years. Our work is to find innovative ways to use technology to satisfy our client’s business needs.


About the Company:
Sieena is a Nearshore software development firm specializing in market research, entertainment and startup companies. We help our clients use technology to get ahead of their competitors. We achieve this by using our vertical expertise and the experience obtained by delivering successful engagement for more than 6 years.
Sieena is a certified Microsoft Gold Partner with competencies in Business Intelligence, Collaboration Portals, Software Development, Web Development and Data Management. More than 90% of our staff is certified and we have won multiple awards for innovation and design. We leverage our development center in Monterrey Mexico to provide competitive pricing to our clients.
For more information visit http://www.sieena.com/

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Why is it important to know how to interpret non-verbal Communication for recruiting?

I have been recently attracted to all social behavior studies, call it in person or online, I did not study a psychology related major but when you have to interact with people pretty often you tend to get interested in these subjects. As a recruiter knowing how to see what people are “not saying” can help you in making a much more efficient decision, this doesn’t mean - that you will know when people are lying - but that you will know when to find yellow flags and make more inquiries about it.

Just like when they say about people talking to you, and rolling their eyes to the right means they are making things up and when they roll them to the left they are remembering something, or if they are looking away from you while talking they are not being truthful. I don’t honestly paid attention to it, mainly because I can never tell my right from my left!, but the important thing is, everyone is different and lately there has been a great deal of studies mentioning that eye contact is not a sign of people telling lies.

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How to Create a RESTful application using MVC Rest library

By Fernando G.
Overview
First off, we need to have a quick overview of what REST means to the development community, and we can start by what does REST stands for? It stands for Representational State Transfer. Right, it did not help a lot, right?

In the SOA era, we have Service Oriented Systems interacting between them exposing Services, some applications act as consumers and some as producers. At the end, a Service Oriented Architecture allows an organization to create a well thought and organized set of libraries being used uniformly among all of the participants with no redundancy of business rules and specially having a single set of Services. Well, not always the case. It results extremely painful when the Services are done in different technologies; Interoperability between the different implementations is the major issue among Service consumers and producers. Another problem is that development teams do not take in considerations to other areas of the company. This ends up with duplicate Services because they do not provide what the potential consumers need, it is too painful to reuse.

Well, REST style architecture is one alternative to SOA. REST is all about identifying Resources and not Services. These Resources are Stateless, Cacheable and in consequence are stable, scalable, with high performance and simple.

Asp.Net MVC
Microsoft saw a huge potential to MVC pattern for web development. They already tried with a library called Microsoft User Interface Process (UIP) implementation back in 2003, but it was not very popular among developers so it lost track and its last update was version 2 in 2004.

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Top10 Reasons To Consider Monterrey It Solutions Alternative - Nearshore

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Creating Reports with SQL Server Reporting Services

By Carina C.

Terms used in Reporting Services:

· Data Source

· Data Set: query related to a data source

· Data Region: object that displays data

Types of Data Regions:

· Table: Tabular report

· Matrix

· List: free form enlisted data

· Graphics

Creating Reports in Reporting Services

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