SharePoint 2010 and Azure

• General Site (link)
• Case Studies - see company links under case study section of site
• Sharepoint and Azure: Collaboration in the Cloud PowerPoint (link)
• SharePoint and Azure Development Primer (link) 

SharePoint 2007 Administration tools

There are multiple free and paid tools available for SharePoint administration. Most commonly used free tools are - SPAdmin Toolkit by Microsoft and Sushi hosted at codeplex. There are some strong SP admin solutions provided by vendors such as AvePoint, Quest and Metalogix . 

Here is a list of commonly used SP Admin solutions you might find useful - 

Free Solutions

By Microsoft (SharePoint administration toolkit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381&displaylang=en

By AvePoint
http://www.avepoint.com/sharepoint-monitor-docave/

At codeplex;
Developer and Administrator tools
http://spdat.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20336

At codeplex
Timer job administration tools
http://sptimerjobadmin.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=28475

Miscellaneous

http://eb.net.nz/blog/post/2008/08/03/System-Administration-Tools-for-SharePoint.aspx

Paid Solutions 

By AvePoint
http://www.avepoint.com/sharepoint-administration-docave/

By Quest
http://www.quest.com/sharepoint/administration.aspx

By Metalogix
http://www.metalogix.net/Company/News/ByYear/2009/Metalogix-Simplifies-and-Automates-SharePoint-Management-Tasks/

By Bamboo Solutions
http://store.bamboosolutions.com/ps-103-5-bamboo-sharepoint-administration-suite.aspx

 

By Axceler
http://www.axceler.com/downloads/controlpoint.html

By Idera
http://www.idera.com/Products/SharePoint/

SharePoint Online and Office 365

SharePoint Online and Office 365 Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time, money and free up valued resources. Check out this video

 

http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US/online-services.aspx

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/Videos.aspx?VideoID=29 

 

Office 365 Integration Coming To Windows Phone 7

Microsoft Learning Training Is Now Available on YouTube

Microsoft Learning Training Is Now Available on YouTube

Visit the Microsoft Learning YouTube channel

Training and Certification Offerings from Microsoft for the Cloud

Training and Certification Offerings from Microsoft for the Cloud:

Most IT professionals and developers will need to gain new skills to support cloud computing. Microsoft is ready to help with new and updated cloud-related certifications and training. Learn more.

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Rich Controls and Themes in Silverlight Toolkit

Rich Controls in Silverlight Toolkit

Silverlight Toolkit is a Microsoft project offering many rich controls, components, and utilities that can help us to enhance our Silverlight UI (User Interface). As we want to create a very attractive UI for SharePoint, it is convenient to get familiar with its features.

Here are steps to see the controls in action and to change the values for many of their properties.

1.  Select Start | All Programs | Microsoft Silverlight 4 Toolkit April 2010 | Toolkit Samples and your default web browser will display a web page with a Silverlight application displaying a list of the controls organized in ten categories as follows:

§  Controls

§  Data

§  DataForm

§  Data Input

§  DataVisualization

§  Input

§  Layout

§  Navigation

§  Theming

§  Toolkit

2.  Click on a control name under the desired category and the right panel will display the control with different values assigned for its properties, creating diverse instances of the control. For example, the following screenshot shows many instances of the Rating control under the Input category.

      Click on the buttons shown at the bottom of the web page and you will be able to see both the XAML and the C# code used to create the sample for the control

Themes in Silverlight

Themes are:

§  Bubble Creme

§  Bureau Black

§  Bureau Blue

§  Expression Dark

§  Expression Light

§  Rainier Purple

§  Rainier Orange

§  Shiny Blue

§  Shiny Red

§  Twilight Blue

§  Whistler Blue

Click on Theme Browser under the Theming category and you will be able to select one of the themes shown in the previous list to preview the look-and-feel of many controls.

See sample Silverlight tool kit from http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/sl4/toolkitcontrolsamples/run/default.html

Silverlight Toolkit includes 11 themes that allow us to change and improve the overall look-and-feel for our   Silverlight UI.

SharePoint 2010 training

SharePoint 2010 training developed by the product team https://www.sharepointignite.com/ . It is free.