¨ Sharepont -- There are a ton of resources that can be found on MSDN. Everything from project plans to steps for planning and designing your SharePoint implementation. Attached is the URL for the main SharePoint page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx . From what you have stated I suspect your greater challenge is going to be defining what you want to accomplish with SharePoint vs how you manage the project. As was stated in previous posts, the management activities are common to most application development efforts. Once you have a solid definition of the requirements of the effort you will need to work with a solution architect that is very knowledgeable about the SharePoint application. There are several details about the application architecture that can cause a project to go in the wrong direction very quickly and require a complete re-engineering.

¨Provisioning and Governance. These are the artifacts of your work as a SharePoint Solution Manager. A SharePoint project is a ever-changing beast: a new solution package, a new site, a new site definition, new employees, organizational changes, etc. It's an entire ecosystem that never stops changing and can easily become overwhelming. Provisioning and Governance are both part of the change management process, and they will save your day when they are correctly implemented.

Provisioning helps you to customize new sites and create new solutions, and use a set of repeatable steps to configure a SharePoint solution. As a side note the provisioning document we had on one project was 500 pages long, but it contained all steps and minutiae one needed to recreate the entire SharePoint solution. See details about ALM, provisioning, security here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/bb964529.aspx

The governance is the set of rules and processes you put in place to help your organization use solutions based on SharePoint. Once you implemented the solution, you need to assign tasks to a variety of users, some users will maintain or create sites, some will perform backups, some will manage content. You will need to document all these processes and rules in detail. See details and examples here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb507202.aspx & http://www.slideshare.net/meetdux/effectively-managing-sharepoint-projects

¨Sharepoint --  Creation of a "Record Check Out E-Room" / SharePoint E-Room rather than the network deposit location.
Creation of a Record Check Out E-Room / SharePoint E-Room rather than the network location.  I am seeking a method of altering the deposit location of records of which are checked out. As designed SharePoint deposits the record place on a network location within the requestor’s personal drive.  I have seen and used an alternate method that deposits the records to a local SharePoint Room rather than the network location. I have used this type of E-Room / collaboration worked in the past but I have been told that my local IT group does not have the skill set to even look into this concept. I have also used an E-Room in EMC’s application but that was a self deposit from a contributor.

see the following link
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101314791033.aspx
The following section might answer your question
Change the location where you work on checked-out files from
 -- Dr. Mohamed Rady  Technical SharePoint architect at WolfBridge Solutions

¨Recommend "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside-Out" from Microsoft Press. Also recommend "Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step".  Finally - Heather Solomon's web site is an excellent SharePoint resource ( http://www.heathersolomon.com )
Posted by Robert Pawlikowski

¨ Google and Microsoft Technet are good resources to learn how to do a number of things.

¨ Flex/AIR application connector to Microsoft SharePoint Server.  Flex/AIR Microsoft SharePoint makes development of SharePoint web applications quite simple; however the User Interface is very basic and lacks interactivity. Hence SharePoint has now provided mechanism where Flex Applications can interact with data stored in SharePoint lists. We have developed Flex/AIR applications that connect to SharePoint and provide Interactive UI for user to Add/Edit data and see Reports in form of Pie and Bar graphs. Here user can have drill-down graphs to see Customers, Projects for selected Customers, Tasks for selected Project / Operator etc.  A key challenge here is that Flex applications can only access limited features of SharePoint. Hence the application was designed in a way that all the processing work was done at SharePoint end by means of workflows and Flex application had capabilities to query, add and edit on the Sharepoint workflows. This provides a useful way to get both applications to interact. -- Raj Chandra Dire

¨ WSS sandbox, used the MS documentation on line, bought the administrator's guide, set up MOSS, attended the week long class, and Set up MOSS again, this time as a Proof of Concept for the company, and began using it as a tool for managing my team. The POC became the enterprise deployment when our upper management decided to roll out the new service to the company without much training.

While I learned a lot from the books and class, things didn't really click or make a lot of sense until I started to use it as a tool for real business needs. The books and classes gave me the tools to deploy the infrastructure and set up the basic portal taxonomy. Once I set up my teams site and we began using it for task/sprint/epic/project and change management the capabilities of the system became clear. We quickly set up and sub-site for asset management and collaboration with HR to manage the new hire and termination process. From there we developed a method for document management and started using workflows to manage the lifecycle of the information. Posted by Brian Levitt

¨At i-Squared all our employees learned it through books, and hands-on with our sandbox. We tired Microsoft training and found it be hard to locate what we needed and not targeted to roles so we developed our own support site called InSites that helps to cross train our employees and customer's employees. If you are interested visit www.i-squared.us and select the yellow button called InSites Overview. And yes we sell the product but even if you are not in the market for purchase you see the reasoning behind the product. It serves us and our customers very well.

¨Export Content Query Web Part to Excel http://store.bamboosolutions.com/pfi-71-data-viewer-web-part.aspx

¨Can we have 2 master pages in use in a publishing site?-- This is not an answer but here is the "goddess" of master pages. You might look here: http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/BaseMasterPages.aspx