Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours Using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

by Walsh, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780672330001
• ISBN10: 0672330008
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-24
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and business matters, allowing you to learn the essentials of SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the ground up. Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks. The Q&A sections and quizzes at the end of each lesson help you build and test your knowledge. Notes, Tips, and Cautions point out shortcuts, solutions, and potential problems to avoid. Learn how tohellip; Explore and fully utilize all the core WSS 3.0 features Install WSS 3.0 on different versions of Windows Server Explore the interoperability between SharePoint and various Office 2003 and 2007 products Create and enhance workflows Manage user permissions at all levels Enhance search functionality using Search Server 2008 Express Create internal blogs using the Extended Blog Edition Get your site up-and-running quickly with the Microsoft application templates Enhance your site by utilizing free and commercial third-party web parts Create sites in different languages

Author Biography

Mike Walsh has been a SharePoint MVP since October 2002. He works as a Technology Consultant for Logica in Finland, having spent all but one year of his working life living and working in various European countries outside his native Britain. Mike became an MVP for the SharePoint Team Services (STS) product through actively sharing his STS knowledge in the newsgroup for that product. He has continued to be active in SharePoint newsgroups and (now) forums, mainly for Windows SharePoint Services for both versions 2.0 and 3.0. He has worked on the Ask the Experts stand at several Microsoft European conferences over the years. He was an early beta tester for both Office 2003, including WSS 2.0, and Office 2007, including WSS 3.0. This is Mike’s first full book. He has earlier written a chapter of a book that was a joint effort by a number of SharePoint MVPs.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Introducing SharePoint 2007	p. 7
Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	p. 15
Adding Users and Giving Them Rights	p. 29
Using the Administration Site	p. 45
Planning a Sitersquo;s Structure	p. 59
Using Libraries and Lists	p. 73
Creating and Using Libraries	p. 89
Creating and Using Views and Folders	p. 105
Looking at List Types and the Included Web Parts	p. 123
Learning About Authentication and Access Rights	p. 139
Using What Wersquo;ve Learned So Far in a Site	p. 157
Using Wikis and Blogs	p. 177
Using WSS 3.0 Search and Installing Search Server 2008 Express	p. 195
Improving Searches	p. 209
Using Different Versions of the Main Office Products with WSS 3.0	p. 227
Using Different Versions of Outlook with WSS 3.0	p. 243
Sharing OneNote 2007 Notebooks and Access 2007 Tables with WSS 3.0	p. 259
Using Access 2007 Tables to Produce Reports from WSS 3.0 Lists	p. 277
Creating Workflows in WSS 3.0	p. 295
Using SharePoint Designer 2007 to Create Workflows	p. 313
Using SharePoint Designer 2007 to Create Data View Web Parts	p. 327
Making Safety Copies of Your Data and Using Them	p. 343
Enhancing Your WSS 3.0 Sitesndash;Microsoft Official Possibilities	p. 361
Enhancing Your WSS 3.0 Sitesndash;Using Third-Party Web Parts	p. 375
Online Appendixes (available at www.informit.com/title/9780672330001)
Full Installation Details for Windows Server 2003 Web	p. 387
Installing WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 Web	p. 397
Creating a Virtual Machine Web	p. 411
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Excerpts

Introduction IntroductionThis book is based on my experience in using the various versions of Windows SharePoint Services throughout the years and on my experience of reading and answering innumerable messages in the SharePoint newsgroups and thus being aware of common problems and misunderstandings.This book reflects those years of experience by giving considerable space early on to issues that have consistently confused people over the years and by including occasional notes and hints where my experience from the newsgroups tells me such asides will be useful.Two main products fit the SharePoint 2007 description: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007).This book concentrates almost exclusively on the "smaller" of those two products (WSS 3.0). Apart from it being considerably cheaper (WSS 3.0 itself is free) than MOSS 2007, it is simpler to learn and--despite some Microsoft peoples' attempts to pitch MOSS 2007 as the only useful SharePoint product--is a full and useful product in its own right.Even if you intend to move to MOSS 2007, everything you learn about WSS 3.0 will be of use to you. After all, MOSS 2007 is based entirely on WSS 3.0. MOSS 2007 is a superset of WSS 3.0.This book covers all the different aspects of working with WSS 3.0, with one exception--programming. Programming is something that probably over 90 percent of users of SharePoint systems never consider doing and which is in any case well covered by several specialist "development" books. Target Audience for This BookThis book is for beginners in SharePoint 2007. By the time they finish reading it, however, they are likely to be intermediate level.You will find this book useful whether you are a budding SharePoint administrator, a user who will have some administrative responsibilities, a user who will provide content, or a user who will mostly use content provided by others.You will also find this book helpful if you have ASP.NET 2.0 programming skills but no SharePoint experience. If this describes you, this book will help you better understand the background that those SharePoint development books often assume. It will also give you a feeling for what you don't need to program because it's already either included or is available elsewhere.The full-time administrator will in time need to follow up with a specialist book on administration, but for many of the other reader groups (except the programmer!) this book will be enough for their needs for quite a while and maybe forever. Organization of This BookInstead of making this a reference book with every exhaustive lists and every parameter described, I've written this book as a teaching tool based on my experience of using SharePoint products for more than six years. Instead of dealing with everything, I have picked out a few more commonly used elements and described them. This approach, in turn, has given me the space needed to discuss topics that many books of this size don't cover, such as using add-in products, sample templates, and third-party web parts with SharePoint sites.This book gives you an overview of the building blocks that are available to you when creating your own sites. I use these building blocks throughout this book to build and add to a set of test sites.I developed those sites while writing this book, and I wrote the book in order. Therefore, if you follow it in order you will recognize in your test system most of the screen shots included in this book.In the long term, this method of instruction will work better for you than if I just focused on one solution area. About halfway through this book (Hour 11, "Using What We've Learned So Far in a Site"), however, I d