Sharepoint 2017: An Easy Guide to the Best Features


Book Description

Microsoft SharePoint is a powerful web based software that integrates with Microsoft Office. It was originally launched in 2001 and it is marketed as a Document Management System. It is a useful application that is highly configurable and can vary based on the organization it is being used in. At this point, the software is believed to be used by over 160 million users than spans over 75,000 organizations. It is important to note that there are different versions and the organization must select the edition that will suit them best. The usage of SharePoint will vary from organisation to organisation with its variety of capabilities which require much configuration and governance. This book will seek to cover many of the features of the software to educate the reader on the capabilities of the application.




Outlook 2017: An Easy Guide to the Best Features


Book Description

Microsoft Outlook is a part of the Microsoft Office Suite as a personal information manager. It is mostly used as an email application but it also contains a task manager, calendar, note taking, journal and contact manager. It also contains a web browser and can be a standalone application that can also work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server. It can be used for multiple users within an organization to facilitate shared mailboxes and calendars, SharePoint lists, public folders and meeting schedules. Outlook has been improved with new features to make the user’s life easier and allow them to be more productive with less effort. Updates that have been done to the software has enhanced the user experience to be highly effective and allow them to work smarter and faster.




Sharepoint Online from Scratch


Book Description

SharePoint Online from Scratch gives hands-on instructions on how to practically make use of a SharePoint tenant for an organization, or parts thereof. It is almost entirely no-code. Even if SharePoint Online from Scratch primarily is a handbook, explanations on how SharePoint works are mixed into the instructions. SharePoint Online is an ever changing platform, so the author's aim is to give a deeper understanding of how to take advantage of SharePoint at the same time as giving practical advice.




SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design


Book Description

Plan, design, and launch a brand in SharePoint If you are planning, designing, and launching your brand using SharePoint, this book and author trio will walk you through everything you need to know in an understandable and approachable way. From specific technologies such as master pages, page layouts, and CSS to offering best-practices and real-world experience for creating successful branding projects through SharePoint 2013, you will learn how to approach your branding project in effective new ways. This visual book provides step-by-step instructions in a simple and striking format that focuses on each of the tasks you will face in your own branding project. Explains the various approaches to SharePoint branding and methodologies for creating an engaging UI. Guides you through planning for branding and using the Design Manager to start a design. Addresses implementing modern web techniques such as HT ML5, jQuery, and mobile responsive design into SharePoint. Explores creating SharePoint branding for public facing websites as well as internal intranets, including a deep dive into how custom SharePoint branding is created from scratch. Provides coverage on designing apps for SharePoint.




Essential SharePoint 2007


Book Description

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




Microsoft SharePoint 2019: A Beginner’s Guide


Book Description

Microsoft SharePoint is a collaborative platform that is based on the web. Microsoft SharePoint was originally launched in the year 2001. Since then, many companies have been employing the use of Microsoft SharePoint for a variety of purposes. The main purpose that Microsoft SharePoint has been used for is as a storage system and a document management system. In a variety of ways, Microsoft SharePoint can be compared to the Google Drive system. Individuals and businesses that use Microsoft SharePoint use it as space where they can upload, store and manage their documents. Usually, businesses and individuals will upload documents such as email messages that can be exported, contracts, information related to projects, calendar entries, videos, images, and other Office documents. Since its debut, Microsoft SharePoint has gone through several different upgrades and updates. The latest updated version of Microsoft SharePoint was released in late 2018.




SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating


Book Description

SharePoint 2010 is nothing like its predecessors -- and this book is unlike any other book on upgrading. Sharepoint 2010: Best Practices to Upgrade and Migrate consists of a series of recent blog posts and articles from people who have been in the SharePoint admin trenches a long, long time. Together, these offerings provide an expert body of knowledge on how to launch SharePoint 2010 successfully, without pulling all-nighters or causing major disruptions. Author Joel Oleson was involved in the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint, and he began blogging on the topic five years ago as a way to help IT customers. Now he and other experts in the SharePoint community share their unique insights into the business of upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2010. This book is perfect for browsing, so feel free to jump around to the topics that concern you most. Prepare yourself for SharePoint and Office 2010 by archiving, cleaning up, and considering the move to 64-bit Learn real-world upgrade methods, such as using PowerShell, database attach, a gradual upgrade, or an in-place upgrade Consider upgrade development and customization options Determine what not to migrate to SharePoint 2010 Discover what's new in SharePoint capacity planning and how you can take advantage of it Learn how to upgrade from SharePoint 2003 Get an extensive list of upgrade and migration tools




Manager’s Guide to SharePoint Server 2016


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Close the gap between introductory and advanced resources available on SharePoint 2016 with this guide and identify the core benefits of specific techniques in a real-world context, including best practice scenarios. You will find this book to be a comprehensive collection of tutorials and solutions for all of the most widely used techniques (e.g., intranet, Internet, formal metadata management, informal metadata management, document management, social media, project management). To overcome the high volume, velocity, and variety of data, content management systems usually focus on different sub-tasks, namely document management, web content management, digital asset management, and enterprise records management. As a leading enterprise CMS and all-around solution, SharePoint Server handles all of these sub-tasks using one system; however, the opportunities and limits of SharePoint are often unknown at the management level. Many managers who decide to use SharePoint do not know how SharePoint can concretely help to improve their business and day-to-day operations. They are often overwhelmed with its functionalities. In addition, daily users are often overwhelmed with the complexity and extensive features and possibilities of the system. Both SharePoint administrators and users need a clear explanation of when SharePoint can be used, where it can help, and how to use it. Manager’s Guide to SharePoint Server 2016 is that solution. The book provides coverage of: SharePoint technology, including the core technologies of SharePoint and the MySite technology, as well as SharePoint administration levels Template technology, including the most widely used collaboration, enterprise, and publishing site templates Hands-on tutorials and solutions for users and administrators, including use cases in a real-world context Best practice scenarios of SharePoint governance, template usage, and additional tools to improve SharePoint What You’ll Learn Discern how and where SharePoint can help improve a company’s success Understand the core elements of SharePoint for customization and how to improve the site’s functionalities Know how SharePoint can be used as a collaboration and management platform Discover what to do within SharePoint and how to more effectively manage SharePoint in daily business across teams Who This Book Is For Content managers, systems managers, and software engineering professionals. SharePoint managers, end users, and site administrators will also find this book useful.




Troubleshooting SharePoint


Book Description

Utilize a treasure trove of free SharePoint troubleshooting tools and receive insightful guidance about the types of SharePoint issues that can be discovered through their use. Chapters in this book contrast solid and least privileged builds in order to help you understand the types of issues that are raised when farms are not built the least privileged way. Because SharePoint errors often present themselves one way, when an issue is actually something entirely different, the process of finding the root cause can feel like going down a rabbit hole. Hands-on exercises get you comfortable with logs so you can efficiently and effectively “explore the rabbit hole.” Troubleshooting SharePoint also demonstrates how to identify components and settings that enter an environment where access has been restricted. The author shares his proven methods for researching an issue based on what appears in the logs, with the understanding that often it is not as simple as asking a question, but how you ask it that leads to the right answer. What You’ll Learn Utilize networking tools such as NetMon, WireShark, and Fiddler for troubleshooting Master SharePoint PAL, Webalizer, Indihaing, Developer Dashboard, the Feature Admin tool, and more Become proficient using Timer Jobs and Search Diagnostics Understand how various files are accessed by IIS sites and within the server file system Discover how IIS mappings and file permissions affect issues Troubleshoot with ULS Viewer, PowerShell, and tools such as ProcMon, PerfMon, and Event Viewer Meet your new best friend, the ULS Viewer Use Event Viewer as a troubleshooting source Become conversant in the “language” of SharePoint from the log’s perspective Who This Book Is For SharePoint administrators and developers who want to learn how to quickly diagnose and resolve issues in any SharePoint server in SharePoint farms where admin access is possible




Troubleshooting SharePoint


Book Description

Utilize a treasure trove of free SharePoint troubleshooting tools and receive insightful guidance about the types of SharePoint issues that can be discovered through their use. Chapters in this book contrast solid and least privileged builds in order to help you understand the types of issues that are raised when farms are not built the least privileged way. Because SharePoint errors often present themselves one way, when an issue is actually something entirely different, the process of finding the root cause can feel like going down a rabbit hole. Hands-on exercises get you comfortable with logs so you can efficiently and effectively “explore the rabbit hole.” Troubleshooting SharePoint also demonstrates how to identify components and settings that enter an environment where access has been restricted. The author shares his proven methods for researching an issue based on what appears in the logs, with the understanding that often it is not as simple as asking a question, but how you ask it that leads to the right answer. What You’ll Learn Utilize networking tools such as NetMon, WireShark, and Fiddler for troubleshooting Master SharePoint PAL, Webalizer, Indihaing, Developer Dashboard, the Feature Admin tool, and more Become proficient using Timer Jobs and Search Diagnostics Understand how various files are accessed by IIS sites and within the server file system Discover how IIS mappings and file permissions affect issues Troubleshoot with ULS Viewer, PowerShell, and tools such as ProcMon, PerfMon, and Event Viewer Meet your new best friend, the ULS Viewer Use Event Viewer as a troubleshooting source Become conversant in the “language” of SharePoint from the log’s perspective Who This Book Is For SharePoint administrators and developers who want to learn how to quickly diagnose and resolve issues in any SharePoint server in SharePoint farms where admin access is possible