SharePoint 2010

With over 1,000,000 users around the world, we’re sure that hosted SharePoint is used far and wide for an enormous variety of reasons. Yet, sometimes we can’t help but wonder what features are used the most and what percent of businesses use it strictly for collaboration.

Well, curiosity has gotten the best of us. We would like to take a quick snapshot of what folks are doing with hosted SharePoint. As a matter of fact, we’re not the only ones wondering how organizations across the world are using this technology. Our good friend Mark Miller from EndUserSharePoint.com just posed the same question to the SharePoint community on August 11th. While his survey is a little more general, we’re using ours to focus on just how hosted SharePoint is used within our ever-expanding community of end-users.

Here’s the plan… you take a quick survey

We’ve set up a quick and entertaining question survey that will paint a picture for us. It should take you about five minutes or less from start to finish. However, if the questions are putting you to sleep, feel free to just send in what you’ve got. Partial responses are better than none!

If we get enough respondents, we’ll be happy to post the results in an upcoming blog.

Then, you get brownie points OR good karma!

Upon completion of our simple survey, we’ll send you 50 brownie points or 35 waves of good karma; your choice. We’ll even pair that with our everlasting gratitude!

With that said, please help out the SharePoint community by taking the survey!

Getting to the SharePoint pages you visit the most can definitely steal some valuable time from your day. If you’re a member of several sites, SharePoint navigation can seem even more daunting. However, by creating a SharePoint quick list of links under My Links, you’ll be able to navigate faster to these important pages. Here’s how in just six easy steps.

Creating a list of links

1. First, go to the page in your SharePoint site you would like to create a link to.

Part 1 of our series: “SharePoint 2010 Hosting FAQ Conversations”

Every day, we’re honored to receive tons of questions from potential customers who want to know more about our world-class SharePoint hosting services. Just recently, we sifted through our call notes, tweets, live chat logs and emails to find out which questions are popping up the most often. Starting today, the Fpweb.net experts are dishing out answers to the most popular topics right here in our blog.

This takes us right into our first post, where we’ll be discussing the most common questions about SharePoint Foundation 2010 hosting – everything from custom SharePoint domains, flexible storage, public-facing SharePoint sites and much more.

By now, you may have heard about the new integration and web database publishing features possible with Microsoft Access 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Access Services. However, you might find yourself asking, “What about SharePoint 2010 Foundation?”

Here’s some good news. MS Access 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 have some integration points as well (these apply to SharePoint Server 2010 too). In this article, we’ll cover all of the Access 2010 Integration features as they pertain to hosted SharePoint Foundation 2010.

Looking for some creative inspiration to perk up your SharePoint 2010 site? Want to check out what other SharePoint fanatics have done?

If the answer’s yes, be sure to check out TopSharepoint.com. This site ranks some of the most beautiful SharePoint sites on the Web today. It even breaks the creative contenders into categories based on the company’s geographical location.

The cream of the crop list automatically adjusts itself according to your votes, so pick your favorite and score it high. Anyone can submit a website to be featured, as long as it’s built on the SharePoint platform, well designed and original.

Fpweb.net also has a list of SharePoint 2007 sample sites ready for your viewing pleasure. All of these great examples show you that if you can dream it, you can design it with the power of hosted SharePoint!

Let’s say you’ve come dangerously close to solving a tricky SharePoint problem, only to run into a hitch in the home stretch. You know there’s a way to make SharePoint do what you want; you just need to find someone who has had the same problem and come up with a smart solution. When you’ve got questions, where’s a good place to go? In general, how can you find out more about the beast known as SharePoint?

The good news is SharePoint’s got groupies. Tons of them in fact, scattered all across the globe. When you google “SharePoint Community”, more than 13 million results pop up. Most of these sites belong to friendly, SharePoint hungry folks – members of the SharePoint community – who love to dish about what’s new, what’s changed and how they can help.

Want in on the action? Here’s a few of our favorite resources you can use to get your questions answered and become more familiar with the many faces and facets of SharePoint.

I’ll make this one quick today. I promised a few days ago…ok you’re right, maybe it was more like a week ago in my Unattended WebApp Install, that I’d get the site collection script out there. Since then I’ve needed to test a few deployment scenarios, and I just now got a chance to get this puppy cleaned up. Don’t forget to modify the variables to suit your environment. I also included a list of templates you can use if you are installing foundation as well.

Fpweb.net will be one of the first providers in the world to manage MOSS 07 (and soon SharePoint 2010) with Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter.