Essential Sharepoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers
If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform. Essential SharePoint 2007 demonstrates how your business can use SharePoint to control documents, structure workflow, and share information over the Web using standard tools business users already know — Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.\ Written in a...
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Written by an expert consultant, this concise and practical guide teaches SharePoint power users, site administrators, and developers how to get the most from the latest version of Microsofts popular information-sharing and collaboration platform.
Preface ixUsing SharePoint 1How Does This Help Me Do My Job? 1What Types of Sites Can I Create? 3What Software Do I Need? 5Parts of a Page 9Creating Sites 16Putting SharePoint to Work 19Best Practices 28Word, Excel, and Outlook 30Setting Client Security 30Editing, Saving, and Sharing Documents 33Editing Lists in Excel 39Viewing SharePoint Calendars from Outlook 44Organizing Meetings from Outlook 46Sharing Contacts with Outlook 50Best Practices 54Creating Sites 56Choosing a Location and Template 56Customizing Site Navigation 63Summarizing Content with Web Parts 68Adding Other Pages 69Setting Security (Controlling Access) 70Changing the General Appearance 74Creating Custom Themes 75Applying Stylesheets 76Creating and Using Site Templates 77Best Practices 82Creating Lists 83Using Built-in List Templates 83Adding Columns 85Adding Site Columns 91Creating Views 96Renaming a List and Changing Other Settings 101Controlling Access to Lists 103Editing List Pages 105Saving the List As a Template 110Deploying List Templates 112Best Practices 112Creating Libraries 113Using the Built-in Library Templates 113Changing Library Settings 116Adding Content Types 121Organizing Libraries 123Saving a Library As a Template 127Creating Library Applications 127Best Practices 133Building Pages 135Using the Built-in Web Parts 135Customizing List View Web Parts 138Creating Client-Side Web Parts 148Filtering Lists and Libraries in MOSS 155Connecting to Data with WSRP in MOSS 160Modifying Master Pages 161Best Practices 165Creating My Sites, Blogs, and Wikis 166Creating My Sites in MOSS 166Creating Blogs 174Creating Wikis 178Best Practices 184Enabling Email and Workflow 185Receiving Alerts 186Emailing Task Assignments 188Changing the From Address 189Time-Driven Alerts 190Emailing from Libraries 192Emailing to Libraries 193Creating Workflows 197Creating Workflows in MOSS 204Best Practices 208RSS, Rollups, and Site Maps 209RSS at a Glance 209Using Rollups 213Rollups Without MOSS 219Providing Site Maps 219Best Practices 223Gathering Data with InfoPath 224What Software Do You Need? 224Using Form Libraries 225Customizing Forms 233Making a Form Read-Only 237Populate a Control from a List 238Validating Data 243Preventing Changes to Form Templates 244Using InfoPath Forms Services 245Programming InfoPath 250Setting Trust 253Best Practices 254Programming Web Parts 256What to Build When... 256What to Download 258Creating Hosted Web Parts 258Preparing to Develop Rendered Web Parts 262Converting Existing Projects 266Programming Rendered Web Parts 269Creating Web Part Appearance 271Adding Child Controls 274Working on the Client Side 276Understanding Event Order 282Adding Properties 284Exporting Web Parts 287Adding Menus 289Customizing the Property Task Pane 290Connecting Parts 292Deploying Web Parts 295Best Practices 296Consuming SharePoint Services 297Choosing an Approach 297Using the Office Object Model 299Using Web Services 303Using URL Commands 316Using RPC 321Best Practices 328Administering SharePoint 329Installing SharePoint 329Enabling Internet Access 343Enabling Anonymous Access 346Enabling Forms-Based Authentication 347Using Zones 350Enabling Self-Service Site Creation 353Scheduling Backups 354Restoring 357Auditing Activity 357Enabling PDFs and Other File Types 360Best Practices 361Upgrading 363Reference Tables 374Glossary 403Index 407
