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Microsoft Excel is the most popular spreadsheet application used in every office. As such SharePoint Server provides special support for it. In the current article, we will review SharePoint Excel Services and  publish a sample spreadsheet using Excel services.

SharePoint 2010 comes with several inbuilt workflow templates, such as one for document approval. Sometimes these templates are not suitable and new workflows need to be created.  You can do this in one of the following ways:

Workflows (sequences of connected steps) are an everyday occurrence in most offices and as such, SharePoint 2010 provides support for workflows. In this article we review how to add an approval workflow to a SharePoint Document Library.

Sharepoint ships with several templates inbuilt but at some stage you will want to expand the available options by creating new templates. Tempaltes can be created from scratch but in practice most templates are created by modifying an existing template.

Select Site Actions > Create  on the right hand side of the default page.

Click Sites and Workspaces under the Web Pages heading
On the New Sharepoint site page. Enter the Title and Description of the site:

Enter an appropriate URL which the site will become accessible from.
Select an appropriate template for the site. Templates under the Collaboration [...]

If you have created a group in Sharepoint you will likely want to create some custom permissions for the group.

Sharepoint installs with several prebuilt groups but in practice you will want to add custom groups for you company.

Sharepoint comes with several prebuilt groups but in practise you will want to add custom groups for your company.

To add a new user in Sharepoint (MOSS or WSS) the first step is to create the user on the server. Normally Sharepoint users are created in the Active Directory and then given permissions to use the Sharepoint installation.

SharePoint is one of the buzzwords that are used almost in every office. When a newbie enters in the world of the SharePoint technologies, one of the first questions  is: “What is the difference between the available distributions?” Generally there are two main distributions: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [...]