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Conclusion

Some people will find this tutorial to be very simple while others may find it very complicated. To be honest, it will be complicated for the beginners but those who have lot of experience in SharePoint will find it to be simple. Well, my objective was to explain the process to the people who form the “beginner” class. You might find some errors including typos in the tutorial because it was written hastily. Although it is not possible to reply to each and every email but I will try my best to answer as many queries as possible. Even though I have stopped authoring tutorials for the last 2-3 years, still I get 30-40 emails daily from people who read and appreciate my tutorials, who read and criticize my work and from people who ask me to help them on their personal projects.

Please stay connected, the next tutorial in this series will be more advanced and will tell you more about the advantages of capturing documents in SharePoint Document Libraries offer.

Good Luck.

S.S. Ahmed

Comments

  1. 16 Feb 2009 at 05:39
    Hi, Your article caught me eye whilst I was browsing trying to learn about Sharepoint. I am BA not a developer and am trying to work out how to implement SharePoint. One of our directors was under the impression that SharePoint doucments are stored within the database rather than on a file store similar to Lotus Notes. I have not been able to find any information to verify this. My questions are: 1. Can you confirm where SharePoint stores the documents - database or network/file store directory? 2. How difficult is it to migrate/extract documents from SharePoint if you decide in the future to move to another product?
  2. 03 Oct 2008 at 18:56
    Hi, Great article. Is it possible to use the event handlers and copy the document to sql server? I need to take a document that is uploaded into a document library and copy the document to sql server for our external users to access through an asp.net web application.
  3. 30 Jun 2008 at 06:39

    Hi,

     

    I have one questsion, if you can reply. which format sql server store sharepoint files?

    second how sqlserver manage versions history?

    help will be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Ars

  4. 27 Feb 2008 at 16:33

    Hello,

    I am new to SharePoint, I am reseraching for my company the option of useing SharePoint Shared Document library for our docmentation system.  We are a small company and need to create a standard shared docuemnt repository for our IT department.

    Can anyone answere the following questions?

     Thanks

     Is there icensing fee's for a share point shared document library?

     Can you create retention rules / periods on dcouments stored in the shared document library?

    Is the shared document library?

    What type of files can be stored in the shared document library? word, PDF, excell, powerpoint, onenote, miscrosoft project, visio?

     

  5. 30 May 2007 at 08:14

    Hi,

    This article is very useful for me as a beginner to Sharepoint.  I need a favour, there is a requirement to have a form that collects some input like description, remarks, expiry date etc and add a document to the library.  It requires edit feature and delete feature too.  Can you please guide me how to achieve in sharepoint, THANKS IN ADVANCE.

    Please mail at reachbaala@yahoo.com

    Thanks, Bala

     

     

  6. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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S.S. Ahmed S.S. Ahmed is a senior IT Professional and works for a web and software development firm. Ahmed is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP. Ahmed specializes in creating database driven dynamic we...

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