Where to start learning SharePoint 2010?

Question

I recently started at a new job where I'll be working with Sharepoint 2010 to set up (or actually upgrade) an intranet. Unfortunately, I have no experience with SP2010, and the last time I touched SP2007 (or a virtual server for that matter) was four years ago.

I'll be attending a course soon, but until then I have to make myself useful. I've already managed to install a working Sp2010 server and have played around with some web applications and site collections, and trying to find out how Sharepoint Designer works, but I don't really have an idea what I'm doing or what goals I should set for myself to actually learn useful stuff.

I've also watched some tutorials, but most are really problem-specific (problems I don't have yet) or dive into the code (which I won't, probably).

So.. where to start?

Answer 1

when i started with SP2010, i began by searching:

• New features in Lists and Document
• Libraries New search capabilities
• DocumentSets (they are very interesting!)
• Office Web Apps (Excel and Word web access)
• A little bit of FAST Search Engine
• Integration with silverlight
• Changes in the object model
• Workflows
• New tools in VS2010

(MSDN, codeplex, codeproject, stackoverflow, and several blogs from Sharepoint MVPs are good places to look for)

I don't know if this would help but that's where I started.. if you need specific help you can find several groups in linkedin.. there are a lots of MVPs helping..

Good luck!

Answer 2

Litso install a dev box on you machine and get started. Try doing some migration from one server to the other.

Answer 3

Basically i started my sharepoint learning with the following examples:

1. Create a feature to change site title
2. Create a feature to change site theme
3. Create a feature with feature stapling
4. Create a feature that activates another feature
5. Create a site through code
6. Create a list through code
7. Populate a list with data through code
8. Create a lookup column in list through code

These are the basic examples that you can understand what is Sharepoint as a beginner.

Please see the below link for more beginner programs:

http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Downloads/SharePoint-Tutorials.aspx

Answer 4

Use this link for more examples with source code:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5&displaylang=en

Answer 5

Follow the below link to learn sharepoint. It contains sharepoint tutorial videos and all.

http://www.fastsharepoint.com/

Answer 6

I would suggest video tutorials because:

• They are FREE!
• They give you more context than just reading what to do.
• A quick search will get you specific topics.

Check out Bing videos on SharePoint 2010. There's lots of great content out there to get you going fast.