Over the past few weeks Microsoft has released a ton of resources to help administrators and end-users get started with Visio Services. This article summarizes all the online resources for Visio Services in one place.
Visio Services is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allows you to view and share dynamic, data driven diagrams. For a quick refresher on Visio Services, http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/10/30/introducing-visio-services.aspx
Administrator Videos
To help administrators setup and configure Visio Services, we’ve put up a set of instructional videos that will guide you through various setup and configuration tasks. The videos cover basic setup, as well as how to configure Visio Services to connect to external data sources.
The second and third videos below also show you how to create a data connected diagram in Visio 2010.
Note: these videos are .WMV files, so you can click them to stream them, or right click and choose to save them locally.
http://content3.catalog.video.msn.com/e2/ds/9733cb17-31d8-42ea-9b23-5db0a4cc7f59.wmv
http://content2.catalog.video.msn.com/e2/ds/d27cfc42-b149-4075-a8ce-fe4861ca148d.wmv
http://content5.catalog.video.msn.com/e2/ds/2daf71c3-09d1-42d7-a888-a2bfe067324a.wmv
Visio 2010 Add-In For SCOM
In a previous blog post we talked about the http://visiotoolbox.com/downloads/addins/Visio_2010_Add-in_for_System_Center_Operations_Manager_2007_R2_961.aspx . For step by step instructions on how to set this up, check out this new article on TechNet:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff872146.aspx
Other Documentation
There is tons of documentation available to help you with anything related to Visio Services. Here’s a roundup of it all:
Visio Services Setup, Configuration, and Planning:
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663482(office.14).aspx
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee524059(office.14).aspx
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663483.aspx
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FD1EAC86-AD47-4865-9378-80040D08AC55&displayLang=en
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff872146.aspx
Visio Services Development
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394595(v=office.14).aspx
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557781(v=office.14).aspx
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1CDBB7E7-6BD4-488F-91BD-7BD732DBF378&displaylang=en
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394649.aspx
Using External Data with Visio Services
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff829835.aspx
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=196600 :
Visio Insights Blog posts
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/10/30/introducing-visio-services.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/11/03/publishing-diagrams-to-visio-services.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/11/05/embedding-a-web-drawing-into-a-sharepoint-page.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/11/12/installing-and-configuring-visio-services.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/11/23/sharepoint-workflow-authoring-in-visio-premium-2010-part-1.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2010/01/19/sharepoint-workflow-authoring-in-visio-premium-2010-part-2.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2010/02/05/no-code-mashups-with-visio-services-and-web-part-connections.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2010/02/21/the-visio-services-javascript-mashup-api.aspx
- http://visiotoolbox.com/downloads/addins/Visio_2010_Add-in_for_System_Center_Operations_Manager_2007_R2_961.aspx
As always, let us know if you have any feedback on Visio 2010, Visio Services, or suggestions for blog posts you would like to see.
