At the SharePoint User Group UK meeting in Telford on 12th June;  I presented InfoPath and InfoPath Forms Server to demonstrate how easy it is to create, post and manage forms using the administrative model (most demos take the straight to the document library approach).

I have posted a screen cast of the first part of the demo which covers:

• Making your form browser enabled
• Publishing the form for the administrators to use
• Mapping form content to list fields in the created content type
• Admin upload and activation to a site collection
• Creation of form library and activation of the content type
• Enabling entry via browser
• Customisation of the Submit event to automatically name the form

Video: InfoPath and Forms Services Demo – SUGUK.org

Andrew Florendine did a really great demo that took this a stage further and used InfoPath Forms to control data entry into a standard SharePoint contacts list.

I will follow up this with the second part of my presentation a short demo showing how easy it is to embed this form in a web part.