Essential Sharepoint 2007

by Webb, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780596514075
• ISBN10: 0596514077
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

This concise and practical guide teaches SharePoint administrators, web site owners, and power users how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's popular information-sharing and collaboration platform. The book helps readers quickly gain the skills necessary to perform a wide variety of tasks for intranet and extranet web sites. Each chapter ends with a summary of best practices based on real-world experience. The primary audience for this book is SharePoint administrators, a broad category that includes technical people familiar with JavaScript, Active Directory, and networks, as well as people (often technical writers) who administer the intranet. The book assumes familiarity with Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and some network concepts, such as file shares and Active Directory domain accounts.

Author Biography

Jeff Webb is a SharePoint consultant and trainer who has written about computers and technology for 20 years. Among his published O'Reilly titles are Essential SharePoint, SharePoint Office Pocket Guide, Programming Excel with VBA and .NET, and Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook. Jeff was an original member of Microsoft's Visual Basic team.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Using SharePoint	p. 1
How Does This Help Me Do My Job?	p. 1
What Types of Sites Can I Create?	p. 3
What Software Do I Need?	p. 5
Parts of a Page	p. 9
Creating Sites	p. 16
Putting SharePoint to Work	p. 19
Best Practices	p. 28
Word, Excel, and Outlook	p. 30
Setting Client Security	p. 30
Editing, Saving, and Sharing Documents	p. 33
Editing Lists in Excel	p. 39
Viewing SharePoint Calendars from Outlook	p. 44
Organizing Meetings from Outlook	p. 46
Sharing Contacts with Outlook	p. 50
Best Practices	p. 54
Creating Sites	p. 56
Choosing a Location and Template	p. 56
Customizing Site Navigation	p. 63
Summarizing Content with Web Parts	p. 68
Adding Other Pages	p. 69
Setting Security (Controlling Access)	p. 70
Changing the General Appearance	p. 74
Creating Custom Themes	p. 75
Applying Stylesheets	p. 76
Creating and Using Site Templates	p. 77
Best Practices	p. 82
Creating Lists	p. 83
Using Built-in List Templates	p. 83
Adding Columns	p. 85
Adding Site Columns	p. 91
Creating Views	p. 96
Renaming a List and Changing Other Settings	p. 101
Controlling Access to Lists	p. 103
Editing List Pages	p. 105
Saving the List As a Template	p. 110
Deploying List Templates	p. 112
Best Practices	p. 112
Creating Libraries	p. 113
Using the Built-in Library Templates	p. 113
Changing Library Settings	p. 116
Adding Content Types	p. 121
Organizing Libraries	p. 123
Saving a Library As a Template	p. 127
Creating Library Applications	p. 127
Best Practices	p. 133
Building Pages	p. 135
Using the Built-in Web Parts	p. 135
Customizing List View Web Parts	p. 138
Creating Client-Side Web Parts	p. 148
Filtering Lists and Libraries in MOSS	p. 155
Connecting to Data with WSRP in MOSS	p. 160
Modifying Master Pages	p. 161
Best Practices	p. 165
Creating My Sites, Blogs, and Wikis	p. 166
Creating My Sites in MOSS	p. 166
Creating Blogs	p. 174
Creating Wikis	p. 178
Best Practices	p. 184
Enabling Email and Workflow	p. 185
Receiving Alerts	p. 186
Emailing Task Assignments	p. 188
Changing the From Address	p. 189
Time-Driven Alerts	p. 190
Emailing from Libraries	p. 192
Emailing to Libraries	p. 193
Creating Workflows	p. 197
Creating Workflows in MOSS	p. 204
Best Practices	p. 208
RSS, Rollups, and Site Maps	p. 209
RSS at a Glance	p. 209
Using Rollups	p. 213
Rollups Without MOSS	p. 219
Providing Site Maps	p. 219
Best Practices	p. 223
Gathering Data with InfoPath	p. 224
What Software Do You Need?	p. 224
Using Form Libraries	p. 225
Customizing Forms	p. 233
Making a Form Read-Only	p. 237
Populate a Control from a List	p. 238
Validating Data	p. 243
Preventing Changes to Form Templates	p. 244
Using InfoPath Forms Services	p. 245
Programming InfoPath	p. 250
Setting Trust	p. 253
Best Practices	p. 254
Programming Web Parts	p. 256
What to Build When...	p. 256
What to Download	p. 258
Creating Hosted Web Parts	p. 258
Preparing to Develop Rendered Web Parts	p. 262
Converting Existing Projects	p. 266
Programming Rendered Web Parts	p. 269
Creating Web Part Appearance	p. 271
Adding Child Controls	p. 274
Working on the Client Side	p. 276
Understanding Event Order	p. 282
Adding Properties	p. 284
Exporting Web Parts	p. 287
Adding Menus	p. 289
Customizing the Property Task Pane	p. 290
Connecting Parts	p. 292
Deploying Web Parts	p. 295
Best Practices	p. 296
Consuming SharePoint Services	p. 297
Choosing an Approach	p. 297
Using the Office Object Model	p. 299
Using Web Services	p. 303
Using URL Commands	p. 316
Using RPC	p. 321
Best Practices	p. 328
Administering SharePoint	p. 329
Installing SharePoint	p. 329
Enabling Internet Access	p. 343
Enabling Anonymous Access	p. 346
Enabling Forms-Based Authentication	p. 347
Using Zones	p. 350
Enabling Self-Service Site Creation	p. 353
Scheduling Backups	p. 354
Restoring	p. 357
Auditing Activity	p. 357
Enabling PDFs and Other File Types	p. 360
Best Practices	p. 361
Upgrading	p. 363
Reference Tables	p. 374
Glossary	p. 403
Index	p. 407
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