Be your own consultant! Based on years of experience working with SharePoint for Fortune 500 companies and national clients, the SharePoint 2010 Consultant's Handbook is a summary of field guides and best practices for planning, installing, customizing and using SharePoint 2010. It's derived from the internal training and education offered to consultants, and is now available to you. The Second Edition is almost all new content - building on the first edition coverage of Managed Metadata. You'll find information on business intelligence, architecture, installation, upgrade, Office 365, SQL Server 2012 "Denali", and Service Pack 1.

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for the day-to-day administration of SharePoint 2010. Featuring easy-to-scan tables, step-by-step instructions, and handy lists, this book offers the streamlined, straightforward information you need to solve problems and get the job done-whether at your desk or in the field! Topics include deployment, site configuration, enterprise content management, search and indexing, workflows, shared service providers, information management policies, scalability, availability, security, logging and processing analysis, and backup and recovery.

Here's your first chance to learn about Microsoft's next generation web collaboration system - SharePoint 2013. Based on years of experience working with SharePoint for Fortune 500 companies and national clients, the SharePoint 2013 Consultant's Handbook is a summary of field guides and best practices for planning, installing, customizing and using SharePoint 2013. It's derived from the internal training and education offered to consultants, and is now available to you. The Advance Edition is based on Microsoft's pre-release version of SharePoint 2013. You'll find introductions to some of SharePoint 2013's newest and greatest features, along with well-establihsed best practices for using SharePoint 2010 - including Managed Metadata, business intelligence, architecture, installation, upgrade, Office 365, SQL Server 2012, and Service Pack 1. And stay tuned for the final edition after Microsoft's general release of SharePoint 2013!

Here's the bestselling guide on SharePoint 2010, updated to cover Office 365 SharePoint Portal Server is an essential part of the enterprise infrastructure for many businesses. The Office 365 version includes significantly enhanced cloud capabilities. This second edition of the bestselling guide to SharePoint covers getting a SharePoint site up and running, branded, populated with content, and more. It explains ongoing site management and offers plenty of advice for administrators who want to leverage SharePoint and Office 365 in various ways. Many businesses today rely on SharePoint Portal Server to aggregate SharePoint sites, information, and applications into a single portal This updated edition covers the enhanced cloud capacities of Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint Online Shows how to use SharePoint to leverage data centers and collaborate with both internal and external customers, including partners and clients Covers getting a site up and running, populating it with content, branding it, and managing the site long term Administrators and small-business website managers will find SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives them the information they need to make the most of this technology.

Need fast, reliable, easy-to-implement solutions for SharePoint 2010? This book delivers exactly what you’re looking for: step-by-step help and guidance with the tasks that users, authors, content managers, and site managers perform most often. Fully updated to reflect SharePoint 2010’s latest improvements, this book covers everything from lists and views to social networking, workflows, and security. The industry’s most focused SharePoint resource, SharePoint 2010 How-To provides all the answers you need—now! Fast, Accurate, and Easy to Use! Quickly review essential SharePoint terminology and concepts Find, log on to, and navigate SharePoint sites Create, manage, and use list items, documents, and forms Set up alerts to notify you about new or changed content Use views to work with content more efficiently Make the most of search in SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation Organize content with lists, document libraries, and templates Use powerful new social networking features, including tagging, NewsFeed updates, and blogs Author and edit each type of SharePoint page Manage site security and control access to specific content Create workflows, track them, and link them to lists or libraries Create Meeting Workspaces for individual projects Customize a site’s appearance, settings, and behavior Work efficiently with SharePoint 2010’s updated interface and new Ribbon

The Only Book That’s Completely Focused on Maximizing the Business Value of SharePoint 2010 Solutions Essential SharePoint® 2010 approaches Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business results. The authors are leading enterprise SharePoint consultants and draw on their unsurpassed experience to focus on the SharePoint features that offer the most real-world value. You’ll find practical advice about how to succeed with knowledge management, business intelligence, and process improvement, and how to derive value from new innovations such as social tagging and mashups. The book includes comprehensive, “in the trenches” guidance on planning, architecture, governance, training, and other key issues most SharePoint books ignore. The authors identify success factors, intangibles, and “gotchas,” helping you systematically reduce project risk and time-to-value ratio. Learn how to Customize your best portal or collaboration strategy Sustain a portal for continual, measurable value Leverage the new community and social features in SharePoint 2010 Succeed with enterprise content management Streamline business processes with Workflow and Forms Choose the right roles for Web collaboration, search, and Microsoft Office Plan for secure external collaboration Migrate smoothly from SharePoint 2007 Train and communicate for a successful launch Whether you’re a business leader, IT manager, architect, analyst, developer, or consultant, this book will help you tightly align SharePoint projects with business strategy to deliver outstanding results.

Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices is a valuable compendium of best practices, tips, and secrets straight from the most knowledgeable SharePoint gurus in the industry. Learn from the experts as you dive into topics like multitenancy, solution deployment, business intelligence, and administration. Our team of carefully chosen contributors, most with Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation bestowed upon them, shares with you the secrets and practices that have brought them success in a wide variety of SharePoint scenarios. Each contributor is passionate about the power of SharePoint and wants to help you leverage the capabilities of the platform in your business—but in the proper way. Go beyond procedures and manuals, and benefit from hundreds of years of combined experience, which the authors of Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices provide in these pages. Learn from the masters and take control of SharePoint 2010 like you never have before with Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices!