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“This book will become a mainstay in your SharePoint library. You will find yourself reaching for it whenever you run into a difficult situation or need extra guidance on how to use the new SharePoint product set.”
– From the Foreword by Thomas Rizzo, Senior Director, SharePoint Product Management, Microsoft
The Only Book That’s Completely Focused on Maximizing the Business Value of SharePoint 2010 Solutions
Essential SharePoint® 2010 approaches Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business results.
The authors are leading enterprise SharePoint consultants and draw on their unsurpassed experience to focus on the SharePoint features that offer the most real-world value. You’ll find practical advice about how to succeed with knowledge management, business intelligence, and process improvement, and how to derive value from new innovations such as social tagging and mashups.
The book includes comprehensive, “in the trenches” guidance on planning, architecture, governance, training, and other key issues most SharePoint books ignore. The authors identify success factors, intangibles, and “gotchas,” helping you systematically reduce project risk and time-to-value ratio. Learn how to
Whether you’re a business leader, IT manager, architect, analyst, developer, or consultant, this book will help you tightly align SharePoint projects with business strategy to deliver outstanding results.
Foreword xix
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Authors xxvii
About the Contributors xxix
Part I: Planning 1
Chapter 1: Getting Started 3
Reader’s Guide 4
Planning a Successful SharePoint Solution Strategy 5
Key Points 19
Chapter 2: Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Platform 21
Microsoft’s Collaboration Evolution 23
Current Versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies 26
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 27
SharePoint 2010: What’s New? 32
Comparing SharePoint Foundation to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 34
SharePoint: The File Share Killer 35
SharePoint: The Access and Excel Killer 45
Key Points 57
Chapter 3: SharePoint 2010: Architecture Fundamentals 61
Functional Overview 61
SharePoint Fundamentals 65
SharePoint Lists, Libraries, and Items 78
Pages 80
Navigation 81
Understanding SharePoint Administration 84
Physical Deployment Options 89
Key Points 94
Chapter 4: Planning for Governance 97
Why Is Governance Planning So Important? 97
How Do I Create a Governance Plan? 100
What Is in the Governance Plan? 100
Key Points 121
Chapter 5: Planning Your Information Architecture 123
Getting Started 125
Site Architecture 129
Page Architecture 135
Metadata Architecture 138
Maintaining Your Information Architecture 161
Key Points 161
Chapter 6: Making Enterprise Content Management Work: Documents and Records 163
Getting Started with ECM 164
What’s New for ECM in SharePoint 2010? 165
Document Management 167
Records Management 186
Key Points 199
Chapter 7: Getting Social: Leveraging Community Features 201
Getting Started: Developing a Strategy for SharePoint Community Features 202
Social Networking: Engaging People 217
Social Data: Enhancing Value with User Contributed Content 223
Social Sites: Providing a Structure for Collaborative Conversations 230
Key Points 237
Chapter 8: Planning Your Security Model 239
Overview of SharePoint Security Elements 240
Defining and Documenting SharePoint Security 252
Maintaining Your Security Model 263
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