Chapter 2: The New and Improved User Experience
What’s In This Chapter?
- Browser support in SharePoint 2010
- Updated user interface features
- Using sites, lists, libraries, and and views
- Working with pages in SharePoint
- Using the Multilingual User Interface
You may find yourself wondering what a chapter on the SharePoint user experience is doing in an administration book. Well, the answer to that is twofold. First, it is important for administrators to know at least a little about what SharePoint 2010 can do from a user’s standpoint and how it differs from its predecessor, SharePoint 2007, in terms of functionality. It’s one thing to know how to deploy, configure, and maintain SharePoint from the backend, but it’s another to actually understand what the program can do, what end users will be experiencing, and how it can help your organization. Often, administrators are the ones who will get questions from end users regarding functionality or how to accomplish certain tasks. Having an understanding of the interface will allow administrators to help users more quickly. In addition, some settings can only be enabled at a site level. Understanding Central Administration is only half of the picture. Turning on the option to allow incoming e-mail for document libraries, for example, is done in Central Administration, but what about when a user needs help actually configuring a document library to receive e-mail? Knowing the structure and setup of the user side of SharePoint is just as ...
