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Screencast demo: A Beginner's Guide to Creating Content Types
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In the last newsletter I pointed to a screencast, Content Types Overview, that described what Content Types are and how they might be used. This week's screencast, A Beginner's Guide to Creating Content Types, is a step-by-step walk through on how to implement content types in a library.
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First Steps in Defining Search Scope by Chris Quick
Chris talks about search scope and how to define scopes. This is an important topic that is quite often overlooked. One of the reasons people are moving to SharePoint from file servers is the inability to find documents on the file server. Setting up search scopes within SharePoint starts to alleviate that problem.
Adding SharePoint as a Network Location by Chris Poteet Chris is handling most of the Question of the Day requests as I'm out of the country teach SharePoint workshops. This is a nice little trick for your End Users who can't seem to find their way into SharePoint when trying to save something.
Trials and Tribulations with SharePoint Meeting Workspaces by Paul Grenier
Paul is leading the responses to this one in the comments section. There is so much potential for using a Meeting Workspace, but sometimes is just too much of a pain.
In Defense of SharePoint Designer Paul Galvin
Paul opened up a salvo against SharePoint Designer snobs and has a community of support behind him. If you haven't popped open this tool yet, keep an eye on his series for the End User: SharePoint Designer for Complex Workflows.
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