Introduction
SharePoint is one the most successful products in Microsoft's history. It can be found in small businesses, universities, and Fortune 500 companies. SharePoint 2010, the latest release, contains many new areas for existing and new SharePoint server administrators and site administrators. This book will help you meet the new challenges SharePoint administrators face in their day to day deals with the product.
Existing SharePoint administrators will find there are a lot of changes in SharePoint 2010 with which they may not be very familiar. One of the major changes covered extensively is the move away from a single farm Shared Service Provider to a system of Service Applications which need to be configured and managed. For example Access Services, new to SharePoint with this release will allow your users to actually convert Access 2010 databases to run within the browser hosted by SharePoint.
Our intention in writing this book was to help you with what is, being honest, a complicated bit of Software to manage and one of the main requirements required with SharePoint is patience when things don't work out as expected! This book is there to guide you, to provide help when you need it. Each lesson looks at one particular area of administration giving you the tools and information to get a service up and running. Video files accompany each lesson, extending the information given in the book with real world experience and useful tips.
It would be an unusual day in the life of a SharePoint administrator to know the answer to every question encountered when managing this product. This book will go a long way to helping you understand the questions, provide many answers to common issues, and give you a thorough grounding in the skills required to manage what is in our view the best product ever released by Microsoft.
This book is aimed at both new and existing SharePoint Server and SharePoint 2010 Foundation server and site administrators. The book covers almost every aspect of SharePoint administration at the server level using Central Administration to working at the site collection level. No previous experience is required as the authors take you through each area using real world examples reinforced with Lesson DVD videos.
This book covers SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 Administration. We look at options available to you from Central Administration, looking at working with Service Applications, setting up search at the server level to working with Site Collection Administration features for example setting individual search scopes.
The book is divided into several sections each organized to provide you with a comprehensive guide to a particular SharePoint administrative area. The following areas of SharePoint Administration are covered included real work practical exercises accompanied by a video demonstration of both the exercise and extended information on the topic.
- Section I—Administration at the Site Level
- Section II—Administration at the Site Collection Level
- Section III—Managing Search
- Section IV—Setting up Content Management Options
- Section V—Managing Publishing Sites
- Section VI—Setting Users and Permissions
- Section VII—Managing Service Applications
- Section VIII—Site Templates
What You Need to Use This Book
In order to work with the examples in the book you will of course require access to SharePoint 2010 either the full version or SharePoint Foundation 2010. For some of the practical example you will also need access to Microsoft Office 2010, however Microsoft Office 2007 will work just as well to create some of the example files required. You will also need appropriate permissions to the Central Administration web site and Site Collection Administrator permissions to fully follow all the examples.
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