SharePoint Server 2010 Product Contents & Resources

Aggregated links to find out more about implementing Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, as well as related products and technologies:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428287.aspx

SharePoint 2010 SP-1 is available for download Now

Know more about it @ SharePoint Team Blog

SharePoint Random Picture Viewer Webpart

Intro: Random picture viewer webpart reads the picture randomly from SharePoint "Picture Library" & displays it in specific size.
Description: It is a dataview webpart, following are steps to use this webpart :

1. Download "PictureViewer.webpart" webpart file from here
2. On your site page browse & upload the webpart
3. Add the webpart at desired location on page
4. Edit webpart properties --> Parameter editor & set ListId parameter=[List ID of Picture Library in your website]
5. Save the changes & go...it's done

Note: this webpart is designed to work with SharePoint picture library only.

SharePoint calculated field formulas

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-sharepoint-services-help/examples-of-common-formulas-HA001160947.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862071.aspx

Enable Instant Search in Office Outlook 2010

Instant search in Office Outlook 2010 (OS Windows XP) is not supported directly.
To enable it download & install Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP, available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=55C18CB3-C916-4298-ABA3-5B98904F7CDA&displaylang=en

How to hide SharePoint list from browsers

To hide SharePoint list from browsers do following:

• Open SharePoint site with SharePoint Designer


• Click on Lists folder & find desired list


• Right Click--> Properties window, go to Settings tab


• Check Hide from browsers checkbox


• Done !

XSLT Date format dd-MMM-yyyy using ddwrt:FormatDateTime

<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string(@Created) ,1033 ,'dd-MMM-yyyy')" />
will produce 25-Apr-2009
<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string(@Created) ,1033 ,'dd-MMMM-yyyy')" />
will produce 25-April-2009
<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string(@Created) ,1033 ,'dd/MMM/yyyy')" />
will produce the result
25/Apr/2009