Book description
For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Office 2007 is an integrated set of services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide provides a detailed discussion of all Sharepoint features, applications and extensions. You learn how to build Sharepoint sites and site collections, along with ways to administrate, secure, and extend Sharepoint. This book teaches you how to:
- Get up to speed on SharePoint, including ways to create lists, libraries, discussions and surveys
- Integrate email, use web parts, track changes with RSS, and use database reporting services
- Customize your personal site, create sites and areas, and organize site collections
- Integrate with Office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook, Picture Manager, and InfoPath
- Install, deploy, maintain and secure SharePoint
- Brand a portal, using your corporate style sheet, designing templates, and building site definitions
- Extend SitePoint, such as creating client side and server side web parts, using the SharePoint class library and SharePoint web services
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Table of contents
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SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
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- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Introducing Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
- 2. Changes in the WSS Architecture
- 3. Installing SharePoint 2007
- 4. Configuring a Multiserver Farm
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5. Designing SharePoint Sites
- Introduction
- Sites Versus Site Collections
- Site Creation and Management
- Determining Which Type of Site to Create
- Create a New Site Using Site Actions
- Enabling Self-Service Site Creation
- Create Sites and Site Collections from the Site Directory
- Managing Sites from the Site Directory
- Show New Categories on the Create Site Page
- Add or Edit Site Directory Categories
- Scan for Broken Links in Site Directory
- Conclusion
- 6. Understanding the Datasheet and Explorer Views
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7. Applying Templates, Page Layouts, and Themes
- Introduction
- Site Templates
- Default Site Templates
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Site Template and Page Layout Settings
- Save a Site As a Site Template
- Upload a Site Template into a Site Template Gallery
- Change the Layout and Permissions in a Site Template Gallery
- Delete a Site Template from a Site Template Gallery
- Set Preferred Site Templates
- What Is a Page Layout?
- Create or Edit a Master Page
- Set Preferred Page Layouts
- Managing Site Themes and Images
- Conclusion
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8. Creating Web Parts
- Introduction
- Default Web Parts
- Customize a Web Part Page
- Using Content Editor Web Parts
- Using Form Web Parts
- Using Image Web Parts
- Using List View Web Parts
- Using Page Viewer Web Parts
- Using Site Users Web Parts
- Using XML Web Parts
- Conclusion
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9. Creating and Managing Document Workspaces and Libraries
- Introduction
- What Is the Significance of Document Libraries?
- Organizing Documents
- Document Management and Workflow
- Document Workspaces
- Conclusion
- 10. Creating and Managing Meeting Workspaces
- 11. Creating and Managing Discussions
- 12. Creating and Managing SharePoint Groups and Users
- 13. Creating and Managing Picture Libraries
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14. Creating and Managing Lists
- Introduction
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Creating Lists
- Creating a List Using a List Template
- Creating a Custom List
- Adding a Column to a List
- Notes on Creating a Lookup Column
- Notes on Creating a Calculated Column
- Creating a List Based on Spreadsheet Data
- Creating a Project Task List
- Adding Tasks to a Project Task List
- Viewing a Project Task List
- Editing and Deleting Tasks in a Project Tasks List
- Creating and Modifying RSS Support for Lists
- Managing List Templates
- Managing Large Lists
- 15. Business Intelligence and SharePoint
- 16. Sharing Contacts and Meetings with Outlook
- 17. Creating, Editing, and Managing Word Documents with SharePoint
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18. Creating, Editing, and Managing Excel Documents with SharePoint
- Introduction
- Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services
- Publishing and Viewing an Excel Workbook in an Excel Web Access Web Part
- Working with Excel Web Access Data in Office Excel 2007
- Printing from Excel Services
- Connecting a List View Web Part to Excel Web Access Web Part
- Finding and Calculating in Excel Services
- 19. Creating in SharePoint Designer 2007
- 20. InfoPath and SharePoint
- 21. Designing SharePoint My Sites
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22. Applying Security to Your SharePoint Site
- Topology Design Considerations
- Server Hardening
- SharePoint Authentication
- Utilizing Encryption
- Levels of Administrative Rights
- SharePoint Site Permissions and Groups
- Object Security Functionality
- Protecting SharePoint Sites with Microsoft ISA Server
- Antivirus Usage
- Other Security Considerations
- Maintaining a Secure Environment
- Conclusion
- 23. SharePoint Administration
- 24. Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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25. Using Server-Side and Client-Side Web Parts
- Introduction
- Web Parts for Power Users and Business Users
- Web Part Architecture
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Web Parts for Administrators
- Installing Web Parts
- Troubleshooting Web Parts for Administrators
- Web Parts for Web Masters and Web Developers
- Web Part Configuration
- Configuring Connected Web Parts
- Development Environment for MOSS
- Developing Web Parts with Visual Studio 2005
- Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WSS
- Building Web Parts from Scratch
- Developing Complex Web Parts
- Conclusion
- 26. Using SharePoint Web Services
- 27. Using SharePoint Server for Search
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28. Using the SharePoint Object Model
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Exploring the Microsoft.SharePoint Namespace
- Accessing a Site Collection with SPSite
- Accessing a Site Collection from Within a Web Part
- Accessing a Specific Site with SPWeb
- Handling Files and Folders in SharePoint
- Working with Web Parts and Web Part Pages
- Accessing SharePoint Lists and Libraries Through Code
- Using the Enhanced Events Framework to Back Up SharePoint Sites Upon Deletion
- Implementing a Security Rollup Web Part
- Handling Authorization Information: The ISecurableObject Interface
- Running Code with Elevated Privileges
- Implementing an Auditing Solution in WSS 3.0
- Performing Cross Site Queries with Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSiteDataQuery
- The Features Framework
- Deploying Customizations with SharePoint Solutions
- Working with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Class Libraries
- Conclusion
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Exploring the Microsoft.SharePoint Namespace
- 29. Web Content Management
- Index
- About the Authors
- Colophon
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Product information
- Title: SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2007
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596555092
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