Learn the simplest ways to get things done with Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010!Here's WHAT You'll LearnManage and share team information in one location Use project task lists to organize people and processes Create libraries for documents, media, slides, and more Work seamlessly with Microsoft Office Find content quickly with the Search Center Add SharePoint blogs, wikis, and personal sites Here's HOW You’ll Learn ItJump in whenever you need answers Easy-to-follow STEPS and SCREENSHOTS show exactly what to do Handy TIPS teach new techniques and shortcuts Quick TRY THIS! exercises help apply what you learn right away

EXAM PREP GUIDE Fully updated for Windows Server 2008 R2! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCITP Exam 70-646—and on the job—with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. Maximize your performance on the exam by mastering the skills and experience measured by these objectives:Planning for server deployment Planning for server management Monitoring and maintaining servers Planning application and data provisioning Planning for business continuity and high availability b>PRACTICE TESTS Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

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Master Microsoft SharePoint 2010 In How to Do Everything: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Stephen Cawood--a former member of the SharePoint development team--explains how to get the most out of this powerful business collaboration platform. Learn how to use document management functions, wikis, taxonomy, blogs, My Sites, web parts, and more. Take full advantage of the content management, enterprise search, collaboration, and information-sharing capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with help from this practical guide. Set up a SharePoint site Add documents, use the SharePoint content approval workflow, and work with document versioning features Collaborate with others during discussion boards, blogs, wikis, events, surveys, calendars, and workspaces Use social tagging to create a folksonomy of keywords Create a taxonomy hierarchy using Enterprise Managed Metadata Build publishing sites, My Sites, and public-facing websites Show data on pages using web parts Customize lists, forms, site themes, and navigation Use SharePoint with client applications, including Microsoft Office Backstage, Outlook, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, and third-party applications

The smart way to learn how to build InfoPath forms for SharePoint—one step at a time! Quickly teach yourself how to use Microsoft® InfoPath® 2010 to create electronic business forms for Microsoft SharePoint® 2010. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!Design and build InfoPath forms without writing code Add approval workflows to your InfoPath forms Integrate data from SharePoint and other company systems Create forms that offer a rich experience in the browser Build views and dashboards to display form information Create and use forms in the cloud with SharePoint Online

All your Windows Server 2008 R2 questions answered—on the spot!Get up to speed on the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 with this indispensableguide. Designed for busy IT professionals, it's the perfect go-to resource for quick answers and real-world solutions as you administer the new server OS. You'll find easy-to-read lists, quick-reference tables, helpful thumb tabs, and much more in a handy, compact format that puts the information you need at your fingertips.Topics include:Getting started and adding roles and functionalityAutomating tasksManaging users, groups, directories, and the centralized desktopHandling folder security, disk management, storage, backup, and recoveryMonitoring and maintaining web serversTroubleshooting IP and managing remote accessDoing performance tuning and maintaining virtual servers

Thorough coverage of the improvements and changes to SharePoint 2010SharePoint 2010 boasts a variety of incredible new features that will challenge even the most experienced administrator who is upgrading from SharePoint 2007. Written by a team of SharePoint experts, this book places a takes aim at showing you how to make these new features work right for you. Offering an in-depth look at SharePoint 2010, the authors focus on how SharePoint functionality has changed from its earliest version to its newest, and they provide you with detailed coverage of all the new features and capabilities. Presents in-depth coverage of the new features and functions of SharePoint 2010Demonstrates installation, configuration, and upgrading existing SharePoint 2007 serversDiscusses architecture and capacity planning, securing and managing site content, and integrating Office clientsDetails the protocol for handling monitoring, creating backups, and executing disaster recoveryAddresses shared service applications, navigation and governance, and business intelligence and reporting servicesProfessional SharePoint 2010 presents a solid understanding of the functionality that SharePoint 2010 provides, which will allow you to see what it can do for you.

Now that Microsoft has made SharePoint Designer a free download, thousands of organizations are adopting it to design state-of-the-art SharePoint sites and solutions. In SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed, Microsoft MVP Kathy Hughes brings together all the information you need to make the most of this powerful tool. Using realistic examples, you are guided through all of Designer 2010’s capabilities, presenting best practices drawn from her extensive experience.   First, Hughes quickly reviews the SharePoint 2010 concepts and tools that SharePoint Designer 2010 users must know to be effective. Next, she introduces SharePoint Designer 2010’s revamped interface, shows how to use its core features, and calls attention to its most powerful new improvements.   You’ll walk step-by-step through styling and designing sites that offer advanced functionality and consistent branding. Next, you’ll master SharePoint Designer 2010’s toolsets for data integration and workflow development.   This book will be invaluable to every user or potential user of SharePoint Designer, including: Web designers, information workers, software developers, system administrators, and IT managers.   Kathy Hughes is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server with a Masters Degree in interaction design from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Hughes trains and consults on SharePoint, focusing on design, usability, and customization. She contributed to multiple SharePoint Server 2007 books, and authored a comprehensive five-day SharePoint Server 2007 Designer course used by Mindsharp and its partners worldwide. She speaks regularly at Microsoft events including TechEd Australia and Office DevCon Australia.   Get started fast with SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Customize SharePoint sites and content with CSS, Web Parts, master pages, and themes Work with site templates Create and adapt content types, columns, lists, and libraries Quickly build new content pages and page layouts Incorporate media, including Silverlight and images Configure RSS, REST, SQL Server, and other data sources Integrate external content types and lists via Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Authenticate data sources and troubleshoot data integration problems Extend the ribbon with custom actions and leverage the dialog framework to enhance the user interface Use SharePoint Designer 2010’s built-in ASP.NET controls Extend site functionality with the XSLT List View and Data View Web Parts Modify out-of-the-box list forms, or build new ones with InfoPath 2010 Adapt Designer 2010’s workflows or build entirely new ones   Category: Microsoft® SharePoint® Covers: Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 User Level: Intermediate–Advanced   ON THE WEB: Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/title/9780672331053