Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes

by Noel, Michael; Spence, Colin

• ISBN13: 9780672330360
• ISBN10: 0672330369
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

The super-quick reference guide for every SharePoint Portal Services administrator and user.  Fast access to instructions for every common task, plus reliable, concise answers to the most widely asked questions.  Organized into lessons that distill the most crucial information on each topic, and add tips, tricks, and resources.  Thoroughly updated from our SharePoint 2003 best-seller, with more information for users, site admins, site collection admins, and IT support staff. Every year, SharePoint becomes more popular, and more people need to learn how to work with it effectively. As SharePoint has increasingly been adopted in a wider spectrum of organizations, many more people are attempting to use it without formal training. Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes is designed to help. It delivers easy instructions, straight answers, and fast results for everyone who works with SharePoint 2007: users, administrators, and ITsupport professional. The previous edition of this book -- for SharePoint 2003 - was a best-seller. This book builds on the success of its predecessor. Everything's been updated for SharePoint 2007, and the authors have added extensive new content for users, site administrators, and site collection administrators alike.

Author Biography

Colin Spence , MCP, is a senior consultant, project manager, and technical writer specializing in the design, implementation, and support of SharePoint and related solutions. He co-authored the best-sellers Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Unleashed and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes. Michael Noel, MS-MVP, MCSE+I, has nearly 20 years' experience helping companies drive business value from IT. His books include Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, and SharePoint 2003 Unleashed. Spence and Noel are partners at Convergent Computing (San Francisco, CA).

Table of Contents

Part 1: SharePoint for the End User
1. Introduction to SharePoint 2007
2. Accessing SharePoint Sites
3. Document Library Basics
4. Document Library Intermediate
5. Document Library Advanced
6. Picture Library and Slide Library Overview
7. Finding What You Need
8. Using the Events Lists
9. Using the Tasks lists
10. Effectively using the Wiki Page
Part 2: SharePoint for the Site Administrator
11. Creating and Planning Sites
12. Creating the Right Lists and Libraries
13. Managing lists and libraries
14. Leveraging Metadata
15. Modifying and Creating Views in Libraries and Lists
16. Creating Workflows for Libraries
17. Creating Form Libraries
18. Creating Custom Lists and Importing Spreadsheets
19. Customizing the Home Page
20. Site Administration Tools Review
Part 3: SharePoint 2007 for the Site Collection Administrator
21. Summarizes the role of the Site Collection Administrator
22. An Overview of the Site Collection Templates
23. Review the Galleries
24. Master Pages Demystified
25. Site Columns and Content Types
26. Site Collection Policies
Part 4: SharePoint 2007 for the Architect and Implementer
27. Installing the SharePoint Binaries
28. Creating a Farm
29. Adding Roles to Servers
30. Creating a Shared Services Provider
31. Creating Web Applications and Site Collections
32. Configuring Search and Indexes
33. Blocked File Types
Part 5: SharePoint 2007 for the Server Administrator
34. Securing SharePoint 2007
35. Backing up and Restoring SharePoint 2007 using the Central Administration Console Tools
36. Backing up and Restoring SharePoint 2007 using SQL Tools
37. Backing up and Restoring SharePoint using STSADM
38. Extending Web Applications and Working with Zones
39. Creating Multiple Content Databases
40. Administering and Monitoring SharePoint 2007
41. Using the STSADM Command Line Tool to Administer SharePoint
42. Overview of Using the SharePoint Central Admin Tools
43. Administering SQL Server Databases
44. Administering Internet Information Services (IIS) on SharePoint Servers
Part 6 Advanced Server Administrator Tools
45. My Site Settings
46. Personalization Settings
47. Additional Search Tools
48. Excel Services Settings
49. Using Audiences
50. Understanding the BDC