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SharePoint® 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer

by Adam Jorgensen, Mark Stacey, Devin Knight, Patrick LeBlanc, Brad Schacht

May 2011

Beginner to intermediate

425 pages

9h 14m

English

Wrox

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WHO THIS BOOK IS FORHOW THIS BOOK IS STRUCTUREDWHAT THIS BOOK COVERSINSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS ON DVDCONVENTIONSSUPPORTING EXAMPLES AND CODEERRATAP2P.WROX.COM
KICK START YOUR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCESHAREPOINT FEATURES THAT ENHANCE YOUR BUSINESSEXTENDING OFFICE INTO SHAREPOINTCUSTOMIZING SHAREPOINT 2010 TO MATCH YOUR COMPANYTRY IT
A NEW SHAREPOINT EXPERIENCESAY GOODBYE TO SHARED SERVICE PROVIDERSIMPROVED AUTHENTICATION CONTROLADDITIONAL SHAREPOINT FEATURESTRY IT
WHAT IS CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION?BI SERVICE APPLICATIONSBASICS OF SITE MANAGEMENTTRY IT
MANAGED ACCOUNTSUNATTENDED SERVICE ACCOUNTOFFICE AUTHENTICATION OPTIONSBEST PRACTICESTRY IT
CREATING AN EXCEL SERVICES APPLICATIONENABLING EXCEL SERVICESCONFIGURING EXCEL SERVICES SECURITY AND AUTHENTICATIONREPORTING AND CACHING OPTIONSTRY IT
ENABLING PERFORMANCEPOINT SERVICESCONFIGURING PERFORMANCEPOINT SERVICES SECURITY AND AUTHENTICATIONREPORTING AND CACHING OPTIONSTRY IT
CREATING A VISIO SERVICES APPLICATIONENABLING VISIO SERVICESCONFIGURING VISIO SERVICES SECURITY AND AUTHENTICATIONREPORTING AND CACHING OPTIONSOTHER CONSIDERATIONSTRY IT
SQL SERVER AND SHAREPOINT INSTALLATIONSPOWERPIVOT AUTHENTICATIONTESTING YOUR CONFIGURATIONTRY IT
UNDERSTANDING WEB APPLICATIONS, SITE COLLECTIONS, AND SITESCREATING A SITE IN SHAREPOINT 2010SITE OPTIONS AND TEMPLATESBUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SITESTRY IT
CONFIGURING REPORTING SERVICES FOR SHAREPOINT INTEGRATED MODECONFIGURING THE SHAREPOINT 2010 REPORTING SERVICES ADD-INTESTING THE REPORTING SERVICES CONFIGURATIONTRY IT
WHAT IS BCS?BUSINESS CONNECTIVITY SERVICES VS. BDCDESIGN PRINCIPLES IN BCSINSTALLING AND CONFIGURING BCSCREATING A NEW BCS LIST IN SHAREPOINT 2010TRY IT
DEVELOPING AN EXCEL SERVICES REPORTDEPLOYING AND MANAGING EXCEL SERVICES REPORTSTRY IT
CHOOSING THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOBDEVELOPING A POWERPIVOT REPORTINTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS EXPRESSIONS (DAX)CREATING AND DEPLOYING REPORTS TO A POWERPIVOT GALLERYTRY IT
CREATING A DIAGRAM WITH DATA CONNECTIVITYDEVELOPING AN INTERACTIVE VISIO DIAGRAM FOR SHAREPOINTDEPLOYING A VISIO DIAGRAMTRY IT
IMPLEMENTING AN EXCEL SERVICES DATA REFRESHSCHEDULING A POWERPIVOT DATA REFRESHMONITORING DATA REFRESH FAILURESTRY IT
TYPES OF REPORTSCREATING YOUR FIRST REPORTEXTENDING THE REPORTTRY IT
TERMINOLOGYCREATING KPISUSING DIFFERENT SOURCES FOR SCORECARDSCREATING AND FORMATTING A SCORECARDTRY IT
DASHBOARDS VS. WEB PART PAGESBUILDING A PERFORMANCEPOINT DASHBOARDADDING INTERACTIVITY TO YOUR DASHBOARDTRY IT
PERFORMANCEPOINT FILTERS VS. SHAREPOINT FILTERSCOMMON FILTERSTRY IT
WHY DO WE MAP STRATEGY?CREATING A STRATEGY MAPDEPLOYING AND TESTING A STRATEGY MAPTRY IT
CREATING A REPORT USING BIDSCONFIGURING BIDS FOR SHAREPOINT DEPLOYMENTDEPLOYING A REPORT FROM BIDS TO SHAREPOINTTRY IT
THEMES IN SHAREPOINT: AN INTRODUCTIONUSING POWERPOINT TO CREATE SHAREPOINT THEMESNAVIGATING A SHAREPOINT SITETRY IT
INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT DESIGNERMASTER PAGE CONCEPTSMASTER PAGES IN SHAREPOINTCSS IN MASTER PAGESTRY IT
SHAREPOINT GOVERNANCE AS APPLIED TO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCEREPORTING LIFECYCLE FOR SELF-SERVICE BI ENVIRONMENTUSING ANALYTICS AND CONTENT EXPIRATIONTRY IT
INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT WORKFLOWBUILDING SIMPLE WORKFLOWS FOR REPORT APPROVALUSING VISIO TO BUILD WORKFLOWSTRY IT
WHY DO YOU NEED SEARCH?TRY IT
OVERVIEW OF SHAREPOINT 2010 DATABASESTYPES OF CONTENT IN THE SHAREPOINT 2010 DATABASESOPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR EACH CONTENT TYPETRY IT
TUNING AND SCALING PERFORMANCEPOINTTUNING AND SCALING EXCEL SERVICESTUNING AND SCALING POWERPIVOTTRY IT
PRIORITY DRIVERSTRY IT
INFRASTRUCTURE CONCERNSSTORAGE AND SQL CONCERNSLICENSING CONCERNSEND-USER TECHNOLOGYTRY IT
ROUND UP THE TROOPSPLAN THE SCHEDULECHECKLIST CREATION 101PUTTING THINGS IN MOTIONTRY IT
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTSUSING THE DVDWHAT'S ON THE DVDTROUBLESHOOTINGCUSTOMER CARE

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2 SharePoint 2010 Technical Overview

This lesson is focused on updating you on the new and improved architecture in SharePoint 2010. These changes are the foundation for many of the features and functionality you will be configuring and developing later on in the book. This will not provide an exhaustive discussion, but only touch on the major points and try to clarify where the new architecture will affect your development process when working with SharePoint Business Intelligence solutions. For an in-depth administrative look at SharePoint 2010 check out Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration.

A NEW SHAREPOINT EXPERIENCE

The new SharePoint experience starts with the improved installation process. You will want to come up with a “Farm PassPhrase,” which is required to add or remove servers from the SharePoint farm. This is a new requirement in SharePoint 2010. It is primarily used for basic encryption between member servers in the farm. In SharePoint 2007 this was done using the install account, but could be problematic if that user was not available later.

Additionally the new installer will verify that there are no GPO (Group Policy Objects) set ups in domain services to block SharePoint installations, or assign it to a predetermined OU (Organizational Unit in Active Directory).

System Requirements

It's important to remember there is no 32-bit version of SharePoint 2010 so the installation is available only in 64 bit. The server will need at least 4GB of RAM for development ...