Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning

Description

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.

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.

Contents :

Part I: Planning 1

Chapter 1: Getting Started 3

Chapter 2: Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Platform 21

Chapter 3: SharePoint 2010: Architecture Fundamentals 61

Why Is Governance Planning So Important? 97

Getting Started 125

Chapter 6: Making Enterprise Content Management Work: Documents and Records 163

Chapter 7: Getting Social: Leveraging Community Features 201

Chapter 8: Planning Your Security Model 239

Chapter 9: Getting Ready to Launch: Planning for Training and Communications 271

Part II: Optimizing 291

Chapter 10: Making Search Work: Content, People, Data 293

Chapter 11: Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms 325

Chapter 12: Putting Your Site on the Web 373

Chapter 13: Making Business Intelligence Work 399

Chapter 14: Composite Applications with Business Connectivity Services 419

Chapter 15: Office 2010 Client Applications 439

Chapter 16: Planning for Disaster Recovery: Backing Up and Restoring 465

Chapter 17: Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 489

Appendix A: SharePoint User Tasks 513