The list of our 105 SharePoint end user tutorials. Why SharePoint Fails If you do a search on the internet for ‘SharePoint Fail’, ‘SharePoint Problem’ or anything similar to that, you will find the various reasons why SharePoint deployments fail to take hold in organizations. Consider this article from CMS Wire for example. It points out the top 10 reasons why SharePoint projects fail. Some of the reasons pointed out are: Not knowing what SharePoint is Lack of information and knowledge management skills User adoption I completely agree with these reasons. What about you? How are things going in your […]

If you have been following our site or newsletters, you know that our commitment is to train, empower and support SharePoint users at all levels. I would like to focus on exactly how our corporate offerings help accomplish that goal. Our SharePoint Content 100 SharePoint 2007 video tutorials 250 SharePoint 2010 video tutorials (growing at a rate of about 4 to 6 additional tutorials every month) Video tutorial average length: 10 minutes (with the exception of end user videos) Type of content: Tutorials discussing the ‘why and how’ to accomplish various tasks and functionalities related to SharePoint (using minimal or […]

We have been getting a lot of feedback from our current and potential customers that they need short and to the point end user training videos. So we went ahead and made a test batch of them here: https://www.visualsp.com/sharepoint-2010-training-for-end-users/ (The page might take about a minute to load since there are 19 video thumbnails there. Sorry) I would Really appreciate it if you can take a few minutes to check some of them out and provide us some feedback. There is a quick anonymous poll on that page you can take and also post some comments after taking the poll. […]

I’m happy to report that our SharePoint Branding video tutorials (authored by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy) are now all completely deployed on the site for our online subscribers. A bunch of other SharePoint 2010 training courses are in development right now to continue our goal of ever expanding the SharePoint education resources on our site.

We have not held a sales event on the single user DVDs for many months now. So we have decided to commemorate the July 4th weekend by holding a sale on All of our single user DVD-ROMs (SharePoint 2007 and 2010) listed here: https://www.visualsp.com/products/ This includes titles such as SharePoint Fundamentals, SharePoint Designer Workflows, Business Connectivity Services, Reporting Services and more. Once you own the DVD, you can play it on multiple computers, but it is for a single user’s usage. Let us know if you need a multi user license for the videos. When checking out using the shopping […]

Check out the SharePoint Easy Start page!   After years of teaching, consulting, writing and speaking on SharePoint, I realize that each of us is still learning and discovering the power of all you can do with SharePoint. You might be a beginner or have been using SharePoint for a number of years. You might be using SharePoint 2007 or maybe you were one of the first to jump on SharePoint 2010. In any case, we are all still continuing on our SharePoint journey and it is important for us all to understand how the different pieces on the SharePoint […]

Now that SharePoint 2010 is out in the market, most of the companies (including ours) are very much focused on providing training on that product. However, what about the companies that are using SharePoint 2007 and are not planning on migrating to the next version anytime soon? Look around and what you are sure to find is that there is not much ‘quality’ training available on that product anymore. Being in the training industry for a long time now, I know this for a fact that expert trainers usually move on quickly to the latest and greatest because that’s where […]

Don’t you just hate it when you see a powerful demonstration of some functionality at a conference or in a class, and then you try to replicate what the presenter did back in your own environment and it doesn’t work? That’s pretty frustrating to most people. My solution to that has been to point people to a recorded demo of the presentation at our SharePoint-Videos site since then you can pause the video as you follow along in your own environment which works out great! In addition to that, I have something more to share with you now. Read on […]

One of the main things that many of us ‘SharePoint people’ are responsible for is to display and manipulate data on SharePoint pages, right? All sorts of data – not just data from within SharePoint such as List and Library data, but data from databases, through web services, xml files and all other sorts of places. So how are you currently providing access to data to your end users? or I guess the better question to ask is ‘Are you the one doing this?’. Usually the answer is: ‘Our developers are taking care of it. It is not something that […]

We just released the new SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows DVD. The complete information on this DVD package is available here: https://www.visualsp.com/sharepoint-designer-2010-workflows-training-dvd/ There are four ways to implement workflows in your SharePoint sites: 1) Use the browser and built in workflow templates – A great way to start making simple workflows. Doesn’t require any other tools other than the browser. 2) Use SharePoint Designer 2010 – SharePoint Designer 2010 is free and lets you create powerful and robust workflows using a variety of built in activities (such as sending an email, creating list items, copying documents and a whole lot more). […]