SharePoint 2010 User's Guide - Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 provide a collection of tools and services you can use to improve user and team productivity, make information sharing more effective, and facilitate business decision-making processes. In order to get the most out of SharePoint 2010, you need to understand how to best use the capabilities to support your information management, collaboration, and business process management needs.
This book is designed to provide you with the information you need to effectively use these tools. Whether you are using SharePoint as an intranet or business solution platform, you will learn how to use the resources (such as lists, libraries, and sites) and services (such as publishing, workflow, and policies) that make up these environments. Information and process owners will be given the knowledge they need to build and manage solutions. Information and process consumers will be given the knowledge they need to effectively use SharePoint resources.
In this book, Seth Bates and Tony Smith walk you through the components and capabilities that make up a SharePoint 2010 environment. Their expertise shines as they provide step-by-step instructions for using and managing these elements, as well as recommendations for how to best leverage them. As a reader, you'll then embrace two common SharePoint uses, document management and project information management, and walk through creating samples of these solutions, understanding the challenges these solutions are designed to address and the benefits they can provide.
The authors have brought together this information based on their extensive experience working with these tools and with business users who effectively leverage these technologies within their organizations. These experiences were incorporated into the writing of this book to make it easy for you to gain the knowledge you need to make the most of theproduct.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to SharePoint Technologies
Chapter 2: Sites
Chapter 3: SharePoint Server 2010
Chapter 4: List Concepts
Chapter 5: Lists
Chapter 6: Libraries
Chapter 7: Workflow and Information Management Policies
Chapter 8: Pages and Web Parts
Chapter 9: Personalization Features
Chapter 10: Document Management Solutions
Chapter 11: Project Collaboration

About the author

Seth Bates is a solutions architect and senior consultant for DataLan Corporation, 2005 Microsoft Eastern Region Partner of the Year located in White Plains, New York. Bates coauthored the SharePoint 2003 User's Guide and performed the technical editing for Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions and Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions. He was also published in the April 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal with an article titled "SharePoint Web Part Development." Bates has over 9 years of experience engineering business solutions, primarily using Microsoft technologies. With experience in all phases of the software engineering life cycle, he brings a broad mix of analysis, design, and implementation expertise to his work.

Summary

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 provide a collection of tools and services you can use to improve user and team productivity, make information sharing more effective, and facilitate business decision–making processes. In order to get the most out of SharePoint 2010, you need to understand how to best use the capabilities to support your information management, collaboration, and business process management needs.

This book is designed to provide you with the information you need to effectively use these tools. Whether you are using SharePoint as an intranet or business solution platform, you will learn how to use the resources (such as lists, libraries, and sites) and services (such as publishing, workflow, and policies) that make up these environments. Information and process owners will be given the knowledge they need to build and manage solutions. Information and process consumers will be given the knowledge they need to effectively use SharePoint resources.

In this book, Seth Bates and Tony Smith walk you through the components and capabilities that make up a SharePoint 2010 environment. Their expertise shines as they provide step-by-step instructions for using and managing these elements, as well as recommendations for how to best leverage them. As a reader, you’ll then embrace two common SharePoint uses, document management and project information management, and walk through creating samples of these solutions, understanding the challenges these solutions are designed to address and the benefits they can provide.

The authors have brought together this information based on their extensive experience working with these tools and with business users who effectively leverage these technologies within their organizations. These experiences were incorporated into the writing of this book to make it easy for you to gain the knowledge you need to make the most of theproduct.

Product details

• Authors: Set Bates, Seth Bates, Anthon Smith, Anthony Smith, Roderick Smith, Tony Smith
• Publisher: Apress
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9781430227632
• ISBN: 978-1-4302-2763-2
• No. of pages: 483
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 27 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 939 g
• Illustrations: 504 p.
• Series: Expert's Voice in Sharepoint; Expert's Voice in Sharepoint
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software