Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Pocket Guide


Book Description

This is your most concise, practical reference to deploying, configuring, and running SharePoint 2013. Perfect for admins at all levels, it covers both technical topics and business solutions. SharePoint MVP Ben Curry focuses on the crucial step-by-step information for performing day-to-day tasks quickly, reliably, and well. No obscure settings, abstract theory, or hype...just help you can really trust--and really use! Install SharePoint Server 2013 Configure farms and databases Create and extend web applications Set up and scale service applications Deploy and manage sites/collections Implement BI solutions Integrate Excel Services and PowerPivot Configure enterprise content types and metadata Deploy Enterprise Search Manage documents and web content Brand your site Deliver social tools, including microblogging Back up and restore




Essential SharePoint® 2013


Book Description

The Only Book That’s 100% Focused on Maximizing the Business Value of SharePoint 2013 Essential SharePoint® 2013 approaches Microsoft SharePoint 2013 from a strict business value perspective, helping you plan and implement solutions that achieve effective business results. Leading SharePoint experts draw on their unsurpassed experience to provide business-focused guidance on strategy, governance, planning, deployment, and more. You’ll find in-depth insights for success with collaboration, knowledge and content management, governance, and user adoption. The authors help you choose features, organize information, define security models, and launch your solution. They present best practices for search, workflow, business intelligence, and integrating information from Office 2013 and beyond. Each chapter includes a section introducing new SharePoint 2013 capabilities, from improved site branding to native iPhone mobile apps. Throughout, the authors identify success factors, intangibles, and “gotchas,” helping you reduce risk and time-to-value. Learn how to • Ask the right questions to craft a plan that maximizes business value • Efficiently deploy either “green field” solutions or upgrades • Integrate web, Office, and mobile devices into a comprehensive collaboration solution • Plan effective governance of content, operations, and applications • Deliver enterprise content management, integrating documents, data, web content, and rich media • Use search to help find the right knowledge and people • Measure and optimize user adoption to increase ROI • Evaluate the cloud-based SharePoint Online option • Use social tools to promote deeper user interaction • Collaborate and communicate with customers, partners, and suppliers • Quickly create agile solutions with mashups and composites 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.




Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Inside Out


Book Description

Conquer SharePoint 2013—from the inside out! You’re beyond the basics, so dive right into SharePoint 2013—and really put your business collaboration platform to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting techniques, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts facilitate information sharing across the enterprise—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. Efficiently manage documents throughout the enterprise Build team sites and collaborate with Microsoft OneNote and SkyDrive Design workflows with SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Visio Produce e-forms using Microsoft InfoPath and Access Manage community sites using business social features Connect SharePoint to external data and business systems Create business intelligence dashboards and key performance indicators Customize and control Sharepoint enterprise search




Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development


Book Description

Discover how to take advantage of the many new features in SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 is a significant leap forward from the 2007 release, and 'you will find that there are a ton of features built into the platform for you to leverage in your solution development. Because SharePoint is a broad platform that covers a lot, this book also covers quite a bit of ground. As a Wrox Beginning book, the goal of Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development is to get you started with many of the fundamentals so that you can continue on to advanced programming beyond this book. The book's goal is to quickly take you from the basics of SharePoint, to installing and configuring a development environment, and then into how you can develop for SharePoint. The book is heavy on coding exercises, but tries to stick to a common set of .NET patterns to ensure you walk away with understanding the different ways in which you can code for SharePoint. Moving from beginning to advanced means that you can expect the walkthroughs and chapters to become increasingly more complex within each chapter and throughout the book. The walkthroughs have been created to be concise and to guide you through all of the steps you must accomplish to complete a coding task. Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development is aimed at the developer who is new to SharePoint. The book assumes you have some programming experience and a passion to learn how to develop for SharePoint. But this book does not assume that you've programmed against SharePoint before. With regard to your general development background, the two assumptions in this book are that you have some familiarity with Web development, and you have an understanding of .NET programming. With regard to Web development, this book assumes that you understand HTML, and may have an understanding of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible Markup Language/Extensible Stylesheet Language (XML/XSL), and dynamic languages such as JavaScript. You may have a light understanding of ASP.NET and are looking to apply this knowledge to the SharePoint space. In any case, you have some understanding of the fundamentals of Web and .NET development, and are looking to apply those to the SharePoint space.




Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Step by Step


Book Description

The smart way to learn Microsoft SharePoint 2013—one step at a time! Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to boost team collaboration with SharePoint 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Customize your team site’s layout, features, and apps Manage and share ideas, documents, and data Capture and organize content into lists and libraries Automate business processes with built-in workflows Use social features to communicate and collaborate Publish content using enhanced web content management




How to Do Everything Microsoft SharePoint 2010


Book Description

Master Microsoft SharePoint 2010 In How to Do Everything: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Stephen Cawood--a former member of the SharePoint development team--explains how to get the most out of this powerful business collaboration platform. Learn how to use document management functions, wikis, taxonomy, blogs, My Sites, web parts, and more. Take full advantage of the content management, enterprise search, collaboration, and information-sharing capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with help from this practical guide. Set up a SharePoint site Add documents, use the SharePoint content approval workflow, and work with document versioning features Collaborate with others during discussion boards, blogs, wikis, events, surveys, calendars, and workspaces Use social tagging to create a folksonomy of keywords Create a taxonomy hierarchy using Enterprise Managed Metadata Build publishing sites, My Sites, and public-facing websites Show data on pages using web parts Customize lists, forms, site themes, and navigation Use SharePoint with client applications, including Microsoft Office Backstage, Outlook, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, and third-party applications




Exam Ref 70-332 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (MCSE)


Book Description

Prepare for Exam 70-332—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Designed for experienced IT Professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Plan Business Continuity Management Plan a SharePoint Environment Upgrade and Migrate a SharePoint Environment Create and Configure Service Applications Manage SharePoint Solutions, BI, and Systems Integration




InfoPath with SharePoint 2013 How-To


Book Description

Need fast, reliable, easy-to-use solutions for using InfoPath® with SharePoint® 2013? This book delivers exactly what you’re looking for: step-by-step help and guidance with the tasks you’ll perform most often. You’ll learn better ways to design and develop intuitive, effective form-based solutions, and then efficiently administer, secure, and troubleshoot them. The industry’s most focused resource for solving business problems with SharePoint and InfoPath forms, this book provides all the answers you need—now! Steven Mann is an Enterprise Applications Engineer for Morgan Lewis and has nearly 20 years of professional experience with collaboration and business intelligence, including a decade working with SharePoint. Formerly Principal Architect for RDA Corporation, his books include InfoPath with SharePoint 2010 How-To, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Unleashed, SharePoint 2010 Field Guide, and SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata Unleashed. Fast, Accurate, and Easy-to-Use! ¿ Discover powerful tips for success with InfoPath Designer 2013 ¿ Efficiently create SharePoint form controls, rules, and functions ¿ Master form page design, views, and list forms ¿ Submit, publish, and use data in SharePoint forms ¿ Streamline business processes by integrating forms into SharePoint workflows ¿ Design more intuitive, easier-to-use forms with InfoPath controls, functionality, and settings ¿ Use template parts to create reusable form components, including controls, fields, and data connections ¿ Leverage Visual Studio 2012 with InfoPath to build solutions and application-level add-ins ¿ Dynamically populate repeating tables in forms ¿ Elegantly track changes in SharePoint forms ¿ Automatically generate new InfoPath form instances ¿ Use SharePoint 2013 Central Administration to manage forms and Forms Services ¿ Automate InfoPath Form Services administration with PowerShell ¿ Manage form permissions to control user access and rights ¿ Troubleshoot form development, deployment, publishing, and form submission




Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Developer Reference


Book Description

Design and develop great solutions using SharePoint 2013 Develop your business collaboration solutions quickly and effectively with the rich set of tools, classes, libraries, and controls available in Microsoft SharePoint 2013. With this practical reference, enterprise-development expert Paolo Pialorsi shows you how to extend and customize the SharePoint environment—and helps you sharpen your development skills. Ideal for ASP.NET developers with Microsoft .NET and C# knowledge. Discover how to: Create custom SharePoint apps and publish them in the Office Store Orchestrate your workflows with the new Workflow Manager 1.0 Access and manage your SharePoint data with the REST APIs Federate SharePoint with Windows Azure Access Control Services Customize your SharePoint 2013 UI for a better user experience Gain a thorough understanding of authentication and authorization




Exam Ref 70-331 Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (MCSE)


Book Description

Prepare for Exam 70-331—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 core solutions. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design a SharePoint Topology Plan Security Install and Configure SharePoint Farms Create and Configure Web Applications and Site Collections Maintain a Core SharePoint Environment This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives. Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you.