Tech Annotations: Sharepoint Tutorials

Its been a long time since, I had got my hands on new technology. I decided to start off picking up some CMS stuff, which is nowadays gaining market acceptance. After some research I zeroed in on Microsoft Sharepoint because of the following facts. Sharepoint has been in the industry for a pretty long time, starting its journey al the way back from 2001; which itself is built on .NET and provides hassle free integration with other Microsoft line of business applications like MS Office, MS Exchange, MS Commerce Server, and to systems running on heterogeneous platforms using custom solutions built using .NET.

Talking on the market share, it speaks volumes on the number of licenses sold world over, which is a staggering of 100,000,000 SharePoint licenses and moreover SharePoint now is a $1 billion annual business for Microsoft which is pretty darn impressive. And plenty of corporations are profiting from SharePoint engagements. As of 2008, Microsoft had 2,250 certified SharePoint integration partners. This speaks for itself on the market demand and opportunities. Coming to the opportunities, many deployments are still relatively young, so for them migration, deployment, maintenance are still the forefront priorities with many organisations. So all these points to a greener pasture for developers and for the software development firms.

With all these findings, my decision to go for Sharepoint gained more weight-age than with any other CMS applications. But being a novice, I was completely zero on what Sharepoint is all about and its long list of business applications. While browsing I came to stumble upon following sites which had videos tutorials for beginners like me to kick start with. Here are those links, which I recommend as a must watch one, if you are planning to get foot hold on SharePoint development.

SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course - Channel9 (Videos targeting Beginners to Advanced)
SharePoint 2007 Training (Videos targeting Beginners)
Videos and Webcasts | SharePoint Server 2007 (For seasoned SharePoint Developers)
Video demos and training for SharePoint Server 2010
(How-to Videos for developers with intermediate SharePoint skills)
Office 2010 Videos | SharePoint Conference 2009 (Advanced SharePoint Videos)
SharePoint for Developers\IT Pros (For developers with intermediate SharePoint skills)
SharePoint in real-time scenario (For developers with intermediate to Advanced SharePoint skills)
SharePoint in real-time scenario (What is SharePoint All about - Intermediate to Adv skills)
SharePoint 2007 Training (Paid Subscription, even then some free videos are available)
SharePoint Designer 2007 Training (Paid Subscription, even then some free videos are available)
InfoPath 2007 Training (Paid Subscription, even then some free videos are available)
SharePoint 2010 Training (Paid Subscription, even then some free videos are available)
SharePoint Designer 2010 Training (Paid Subscription, even then some free videos are available)
InfoPath 2010 Training (Paid Subscription, even then some free videos are available)

While researching on different .NET CMS products, it was quite surprising to see a pretty long list of CMS offerings from Open source community and from commercial vendors. I am listing down a popular few CMS solutions just in case if you like to know about.