Introduction
It seems just yesterday we were all feverishly hitting F5 on MSDN or TechNet, hoping, praying for those SharePoint 2007 downloads to appear. Fast-forward three years and now we have SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2007 seems so quaint and antiquated compared to the shininess of SharePoint 2010. We have been using SharePoint since it was a wee lad in 2001 and our fascination with it has continued to grow with each version. In this book we packed in every SharePoint 2010 administration nugget we could. Most were learned after taking and retaking many classes at the school of hard knocks. It’s our hope that we can share some of these lessons with other like-minded SharePoint 2010 administrators.
Who This Book Is For
Are you a SharePoint administrator who wants to know more about SharePoint 2010? Are you a SharePoint power user who wants to know how to translate your SharePoint 2007 prowess to SharePoint 2010? Are you trying to pretty up SharePoint so that it doesn’t look like SharePoint? Are you a SharePoint developer who has a devil of a time communicating with those blasted administrators? Then this is your book. This book was written mainly by SharePoint administrators, but we brought in experts in other areas to round it out. We brought in developers to help explain Features and Solutions with more definition. We brought in branding experts to explain how branding has changed in SharePoint 2010 and demonstrate all the marvelous things you can do. We brought in end user ...
