SharePoint 2013 Unleashed

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• The most comprehensive, practical guide to SharePoint 2013 design, deployment, administration, and usage
• For every role, every organization, and the entire lifecycle
• Fully reflects improvements to BCS, mobile support, records management/compliance, BI, social, web content, and more
• Now covers PowerShell automation, virtualization, and improved authentication
• Covers all of SharePoint, including key infrastructure topics such as AlwaysOn
• Complete best practices and methods reflect decades of SharePoint experience with hundreds of companies

Description

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SharePoint 2013 Unleashed is the most complete, practical resource for¿all administrators, managers, architects, users, and developers to make the most of Microsoft’s powerful new SharePoint 2013 platform.

Drawing on their experience implementing SharePoint solutions in hundreds of organizations, Michael Noel and Colin Spence focus on what administrators and knowledge workers really need to know to effectively design, implement, configure, and use SharePoint 2013. They fully address key SharePoint 2013 innovations such as PowerShell scripting to automate administration and farm provisioning; better virtualization support; improved security and authentication; new business intelligence tools, social networking improvements; enhanced lists; libraries; metadata; and more.

Step by step, through easy-to-understand examples, they help you streamline administration, optimize performance, control cost, and implement high-value solutions for collaboration, document and web content management, and business intelligence.

Detailed information on how to…

• ¿ Optimize your SharePoint 2013 design/deployment plan, right-size your server farm(s), and improve scalability
• ¿ Reduce costs by virtualizing your SharePoint environment and automating farm deployment
• ¿ Optimize search with metadata, content types, and taxonomies
• ¿ Streamline management with PowerShell and the SharePoint Central Administration tool
• ¿ Efficiently monitor, back up, and restore SharePoint environments
• ¿ Understand new Shredded Storage capabilities and new Service Applications built into the infrastructure layer of SharePoint
• ¿ Deploy SharePoint’s improved social networking features, including microblogging
• ¿ Deploy SharePoint as an extranet using various external authentication providers
• ¿ Use powerful out-of-the-box workflows—and create your own with SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visual Studio 2013
• ¿ Build Business Intelligence solutions with PerformancePoint and Business Connectivity Services

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Table of Contents

Introduction     1

Part I Planning for and Deploying SharePoint Server 2013

1. Introducing SharePoint 2013     5

Understanding the Capabilities of SharePoint 2013     6

Using SharePoint for Collaboration and Document Management     10

Outlining Improvements in SharePoint 2013     13

Securing SharePoint 2013 with New Security Enhancements     18

Leveraging Metadata and Content Types     19

Social Networking Tool Advances     20

Working with Office Web Apps     21

Creating Powerful and Flexible Workflows     22

Developing Applications Using Visual Studio     22

Leveraging Business Intelligence Tools in SharePoint 2013     23

Governing the SharePoint Environment     23

Summary     24

Best Practices     24

2. Architecting a SharePoint 2013 Deployment     27

Understanding the SharePoint Server Roles     28

Understanding the Reasons for Deploying Multiple Farms     34

Choosing the Right Hardware for SharePoint     37

Determining Optimal Operating System Configuration     39

Planning for Database and Additional Software     39

Examining Real-World SharePoint 2013 Deployments    41

Addressing Common Business Issues with SharePoint Features     46

Deploying a Team Collaboration Solution with SharePoint     49

Deploying a Corporate Intranet Solution with SharePoint     51

Deploying a Customer Extranet Solution with SharePoint     54

Summary     57

Best Practices     57

3. Installing a Simple SharePoint Server 2013 Farm     59

Examining SharePoint Installation Prerequisites     59

Installing the SharePoint Server Operating System     63

Installing SQL Server 2012     63

Installing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013     68

Summary     74

Best Practices     74

4. Advanced SharePoint 2013 Installation and Scalability     77

Creating an Installation Checklist    77

Installing SharePoint 2013 Using PowerShell     80

Understanding Scalability for SharePoint     96

Scaling Logical SharePoint Components     97

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