Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide


Book Description

This book is a no-nonsense guide for Office users who have a SharePoint environment deployed. Written by the person responsible for large SharePoint deployment – his role is helping desktop users integrate and use SP features seamlessly – our author takes users through working with their familiar Office applications and leveraging SharePoint on the backend. This is different than using SharePoint; it’s about putting Office to work and integrating it with SharePoint in such a way that even more benefits and synergies are realized. It’s about using Office and SharePoint as a platform, and there is no other book on the market combining the two products.




SharePoint 2007 User's Guide


Book Description

SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform is the follow-up edition to the successful SharePoint 2003 User's Guide (Apress, 2005). This book provides guidance about the new workflows, interface, and other technologies within SharePoint 2007. Authors Seth Bates and Tony Smith describe SharePoint in a variety of environments. They have the expertise and ability to proffer an eminently useful guide for anyone working with SharePoint technologies in any capacity.




SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide


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Provides information on the features, applications, and extensions of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007.




Office and SharePoint 2010 User's Guide


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Web sites, collaboration, document management, paperless offices—we want it all in business today, but how do we achieve all of these goals? More importantly, if you work for one of the millions of small-to-medium-sized businesses, how do you find the time to build the expertise necessary to reach these goals? Even the most powerful tool will not allow you to succeed unless you can get the majority of your staff to use it efficiently and effectively. You need a guide that demonstrates a platform that small-to-medium-sized businesses can use to reach these goals. Office and SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide demystifies the path that every Microsoft Office user can follow to benefit from the synergism of tools they are already familiar with. Together with SharePoint 2010, users can achieve goals like web sites with a consistent single view, improved collaboration within their organization, and better document management, and may even get one step closer to the paperless office we’ve been promised for years. This book has topics for Office users of all skill levels, from those just starting to use Office tools to experienced power users. It examines each major Office tool and shows how it contributes to the support and use of SharePoint in today’s increasingly electronic-based office environment.




SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide


Book Description

Microsoft's SharePoint platform is a complex, diverse technical tool designed to meet a range of business needs and uses. It requires several other platforms and applications for implementation, and it can be integrated with other external line of business applications. This diversity also applies to the numerous methods, tools, and approaches that can be used to preserve your SharePoint farm if it becomes affected by a catastrophic event. The majority of this book introduces you to those methods, tools, and approaches for backing up and restoring SharePoint. After it covers all the crucial technical aspects of preserving SharePoint with the tools Microsoft provides for it, it introduces you to the key concepts and activities necessary to develop a disaster recovery plan to implement those technical practices.




Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers


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Explore the features, the installation, and the configuration of these seven new servers and gain a conceptual understanding of how your users will be working with them. Forms Server 2007 Groove Server 2007 Communications Server 2007 PerformancePoint Server 2007 Project Portfolio Server 2007 Project Server 2007 SharePoint® Server 2007 for Search Along with the release of Windows Vista and the revamped suite of Office 2007 products, Microsoft has released a line-up of new servers. Exchange Server 2007 and SharePoint® Server 2007 are two of the major players, but there are also seven additional Office 2007 Servers of which you may not be aware that can add productivity to your environment in a variety of ways. Each of the seven servers is unique and requires distinct assessment to determine if your company can benefit from any given server. This book provides you with the knowledge you need to determine the use of each server, the prerequisites and procedures of server installation, the post-installation configuration options so you can set it and forget it, and finally, a look at the client-side applications that interact with the new servers. Detailed information on how to… Install each of the seven Office 2007 Servers, including both standalone and server farm installation. Handle post-installation configuration options for each of the seven Office 2007 Servers. Create InfoPath forms to post to your InfoPath Forms Server. Work with the Groove client once your Groove Servers are in place. Communicate more efficiently within your company using a Communications Server and the new Communicator 2007 client. Handle larger projects through Project Professional 2007 with your new Project Server and Project Portfolio Server. Understand Business Intelligence (BI) in order to manage your company’s future through PerformancePoint Server. Improve your ability to search for content through your SharePoint Server for Search. J. Peter Bruzzese is an independent consultant and trainer for a variety of clients including CBT Nuggets, New Horizons, and ONLC.com. Over the past ten years Peter has worked for/with Goldman Sachs, CommVault Systems, and Microsoft, to name a few. He focuses on corporate training and has had the privilege of working with some of the best trainers in the business of computer education. In the past he specialized in Active Directory and Exchange instruction, as well as certification training. Peter is a contributor to Redmond Magazine, WindowsITPro magazine, and several tech sites, and a speaker for the MCP TechMentor Conferences. Ronald Barrett is the director of information technology for an accounting and financial services firm, while also serving as chairman for the Technology Executive Committee for CPAmerica, a national CPA network, consisting of 15,000+ professionals.




Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development


Book Description

Unique guide to records management methodologies for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 There may be books available on how to develop solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, but this is the first book to provide step-by-step guidance for designing and building records management solutions on the SharePoint platform. You'll learn the five core services of any records management system-confidentiality, information integrity, high availability, adherence to policy, and audit ability-then explore the tools and techniques needed to implement them in SharePoint. The book helps you understand official records in the context of day-to-day collaboration and regulatory compliance; you'll also learn how to design extensible Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) components with records management as the central focus. Reviews Office SharePoint Server and how it provides a solid foundation for managing official records using specially constructed web sites and custom components Discusses the "File Plan", which describes where each record is stored, how long it is kept, and the manner and conditions under which it is destroyed Shows you how to apply the powerful features of the SharePoint platform to convert collaborative documents into managed files in a record center site Addresses best practices for creating records repositories, developing file plans to identify official records, controlling the creation and distribution of records using custom content types and information policy components, and more The companion Web site includes downloadable code modules you can use as a starting point for building real-world records management solutions on the SharePoint platform If you're a programmer, software architect, business analyst, or IT professional working in SharePoint, you'll want this unique book on your shelf.




SharePoint 2010 User's Guide


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Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 provide a collection of tools and services you can use to improve user and team productivity, make information sharing more effective, and facilitate business decision–making processes. In order to get the most out of SharePoint 2010, you need to understand how to best use the capabilities to support your information management, collaboration, and business process management needs. This book is designed to provide you with the information you need to effectively use these tools. Whether you are using SharePoint as an intranet or business solution platform, you will learn how to use the resources (such as lists, libraries, and sites) and services (such as publishing, workflow, and policies) that make up these environments. Information and process owners will be given the knowledge they need to build and manage solutions. Information and process consumers will be given the knowledge they need to effectively use SharePoint resources. In this book, Seth Bates and Tony Smith walk you through the components and capabilities that make up a SharePoint 2010 environment. Their expertise shines as they provide step-by-step instructions for using and managing these elements, as well as recommendations for how to best leverage them. As a reader, you’ll then embrace two common SharePoint uses, document management and project information management, and walk through creating samples of these solutions, understanding the challenges these solutions are designed to address and the benefits they can provide. The authors have brought together this information based on their extensive experience working with these tools and with business users who effectively leverage these technologies within their organizations. These experiences were incorporated into the writing of this book to make it easy for you to gain the knowledge you need to make the most of the product.




Essential SharePoint 2007


Book Description

If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform. Essential SharePoint 2007 demonstrates how your business can use SharePoint to control documents, structure workflow, and share information over the Web using standard tools business users already know -- Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Written in a conversational tone by internationally recognized SharePoint consultant and trainer Jeff Webb, this book helps SharePoint administrators, site owners, and power users quickly gain the skills necessary to perform a wide variety of tasks for intranet and extranet web sites, and explains what's new in SharePoint 2007 for experienced SharePoint 2003 administrators. Essential SharePoint 2007 teaches you how to: Use SharePoint 2007 with Outlook, Word and Excel, and as a document management tool, replacing, for example, shared network drives with libraries Build and customize sites, lists, libraries and web parts for intranets and extranets Use SharePoint 2007 for team communication through blogs, wikis, surveys, and RSS and email alerts Build a SharePoint workflow application Create and program web parts in order to deliver custom services and data to a site Deploy and administer SharePoint 2007 Each chapter ends with a summary of best practices advocated by the author, and the first few chapters of the book are ideal as training materials for end users. Later chapters give developers and administrators tools not only to keep company sites running smoothly, but also to customize and extend them. The book also contains several appendices with a glossary of terms and hard-to-find information. Essential SharePoint 2007 is a one-stop task-oriented guide for learning what's necessary to make this tool a vital part of team productivity.




Essential SharePoint 2007


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Essential SharePoint® 2007 focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making, streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems. Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint deployment–showing exactly how to maximize business value and reduce project risk. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work–with special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can make or break your project. Learn how to: Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies Build SharePoint applications people want to use Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services Organize and staff SharePoint support teams Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003 Whether you're a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy–and deliver quantifiable results fast. Preface Chapter 1 Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact Collaboration Across the Extended Enterprise Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration and Solutions Platform Chapter 4 SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals Chapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007: Upgrade or Rebuild? Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery Planning Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Management: Documents, Records, and Web Chapter 10 Enterprise Search Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007 Chapter 13 Providing Business Intelligence Appendix A SharePoint User Tasks Appendix B OS/Browser/Office Compatibility Index