SharePoint 2010 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Business Collaboration 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 the product.

What you’ll learn

• How to use common SharePoint resources like lists, libraries, and sites
• When and how workflows can control the flow and action of content
• How to create policies for SharePoint information management and control
• The knowledge you need to build and manage intranet and business process solutions

Whether you have not yet used SharePoint, have used previous versions, have just started using the basic features, or have been using it for a long of time, this book provides the skills you need to work efficiently with the capabilities SharePoint provides.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to SharePoint Technologies
2. Sites
3. SharePoint Server 2010
4. List Concepts
5. Lists
6. Libraries
7. Workflow and Information Management Policies
8. Pages and Web Parts
9. Personalization Features
10. Enterprise Office Services
11. Document Management Solutions
12. Project Collaboration Solutions
13. Dashboards and Reporting Solutions

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 and Windows SharePoint Services 4.0 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. The SharePoint 2010 User's Guide is designed to provide you with the information you need to effectively use these tools.

Seth Bates is the delivery manager and a solutions architect for DataLan Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner specializing in SharePoint solutions located in White Plains, New York. Bates coauthored both the SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide: Learning Microsoft’s Collaboration and Productivity Platform and the SharePoint 2003 User’s Guide. He also has performed the technical editing on many other SharePoint books and published an article titled “SharePoint Web Part Development” in the April 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Bates has over 11 years’ 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.