Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise Architects Guidebook

Tips and techniques for becoming a successful SharePoint architect If you're eager to design and architect a successful deployment of SharePoint 2010, then this is the book for you. Packed with real-world experiences and solid processes, this guidebook provides you with everything you need to perform for designing and architecting enterprise portal services. Helpful examples examine the common design issues affecting SharePoint 2010 environments that can cause deployments to fail so you can learn what to avoid. Plus, key development and deployment issues are covered from an architecture perspective and backup and disaster recovery planning are described at length. Details the skills and attributes necessary in order to design and architect successful SharePoint 2010 deployments Provides real-world scenarios and helpful examples of various types of enterprise portal services Discusses corporate Intranet service, enterprise content management, team collaboration services, enterprise search service, and more Addresses marketing your SharePoint 2010 solution to users to ensure they are aware of the services you provide With SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Architect’s Guidebook, you'll quickly discover the requirements for designing a successful SharePoint 2010 deployment.

The SharePoint 2010 Wrox 10-Pack Digital Library contains these ten books, priced at a considerable savings off of the combined list prices to give you a complete SharePoint 2010 e-book library: Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration ISBN: 9780470533338 Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, 2nd edition ISBN: 9781118131688 Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs ISBN: 9780470597132 Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 ISBN: 9781118043790 Professional SharePoint 2010 Cloud-Based Solutions ISBN: 9781118076576 SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Architect's Guidebook ISBN 9780470643198 SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management ISBN: 9780470584651 SharePoint 2010 Field Guide ISBN: 9781118105054 SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One ISBN: 9780470877272 Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design ISBN: 9780470584644

SharePoint experts focus on SharePoint 2010 as a platform for Enterprise Content Management SharePoint allows all users in an organization to manage and share their content reliably and securely. If you're interested in building Web sites using the new capabilities of enterprise content management (ECM) in SharePoint 2010, then this book is for you. You'll discover how SharePoint 2010 spans rich document management, records management, business process management and web content management in a seamless way to manage and share content. The team of SharePoint experts discusses the ECM capabilities included in SharePoint Server 2010 that will assist with your workflow and content management. They cover Web content management (WCM) features and discuss accessibility and extensibility as well as scale and compliance. Shows how to use the capabilities of enterprise content management (ECM) to build Web sites Covers SharePoint 2010 ECM features and WCM (Web Content Management) features Reviews workflow and content management, mater pages and layouts, scale and compliance, and accessibility and extensibility Features real-world examples and code samples to help with your learning process Packed with code examples and real-world scenarios, this comprehensive book provides you with the information you need to get started using ECM with SharePoint 2010 today.

Comprehensive coverage on Business Connectivity Services within SharePoint 2010 As Microsoft’s new multipurpose portal technology, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is a brand new way for SharePoint users to seamlessly access and integrate data from any application or databases within SharePoint 2010. With this in-depth guide, a team of SharePoint experts walks you through the features of the new BCS, including the ability for users to view and modify the data from SharePoint 2010 with BCS. You’ll explore how to use BCS, deploy solutions, create external content types and lists, create .NET host connectors, and more. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) allows you to seamlessly access and integrate data from any application or databases within SharePoint 2010 Demonstrates how to create BCS solutions with the SharePoint Designer in SharePoint 2010 and Office Provides a clear overview of the BCS API Addresses creating external content types and lists Explains how to develop search-based solutions with BCS Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 provides you with thorough coverage on this new multipurpose portal technology.

Summary SharePoint 2010 Site Owner's Manual teaches you what SharePoint 2010 is all about and how to get started using it. The book also includes step-by-step scenarios for implementing real-world scenarios. You will learn how to build powerful sites leveraging SharePoint's out-of-the-box functionality along with other helpful tools such as InfoPath, Access, and SharePoint Designer. About this Book This book is a guide for business users without programming skills who want to build their own SharePoint sites. With it, you'll learn how to set up document sharing, trackable workflows, and many other business applications. You'll go step-by-step through real-world scenarios like content management, business intelligence, sharing information on the web, and search. Along the way, you'll learn how to interact with other business tools like Access, InfoPath, and SharePoint Designer. This book is designed for SharePoint users who want to become tech-savvy in configuring SharePoint's out-of-the-box functionality. No programming or system administration experience is required. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside Go from user to power user Build on out-of-the-box features Customize your SharePoint site ========================================​==== Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH SHAREPOINT Leveraging the power of SharePoint A deeper dive into SharePoint capabilities Creating sites using site and list templates PART 2 IMPLEMENTATIONS USING REAL-WORLD SCENARIOS Setting up a document collaboration site Leveraging enterprise content management features Publishing information to the web Empowering users with business intelligence Creating application sites with SharePoint Designer Collecting and managing data by integrating with InfoPath Reporting and web applications using Access Pulling it all together with search, My Sites, and cross-site functionality

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!

With SharePoint 2010, developers finally have the powerful, end-to-end development tools they need to build outstanding solutions quickly and painlessly. What’s more, those tools are built directly into the latest version of Visual Studio, the development platform most Microsoft developers already know. In this book, the Microsoft experts who created these tools show you how to take full advantage of them. The authors focus specifically on the SharePoint scenarios that Visual Studio 2010 now makes accessible to mainstream Microsoft developers. They assume no experience with SharePoint development and focus on SharePoint Foundation 2010: the low-cost version designed for organizations and departments of all kinds, not just large enterprises. SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead. Following a practical, developer-focused introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2010, you’ll learn about Visual Studio 2010 templates and tools that simplify the creation of SharePoint solutions The SharePoint object model and its most frequently used methods, properties, and events Using lists to store, manage, and share data Responding to events related to lists, features, items, or workflows Integrating external data with Business Data Connectivity Services Using content types that ship with SharePoint 2010—and creating new ones Building multi-step workflows and custom forms that work with them Utilizing Web Parts to present different data and applications on the same page Customizing SharePoint pages or navigation with ASP.NET Packaging and deploying solutions, and customizing deployment to your unique requirements Whether you’re just starting out with SharePoint development, upgrading from earlier versions, or building on experience with ASP.NET, this book will help you solve real problems and get real results—fast!

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

Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture is a guide and tool set for planning and documenting the scope, navigational taxonomy, document taxonomy, metadata, page layouts and workflows for a successful SharePoint 2010 project. If you have been tasked with delivering an intranet for collaboration, document management or as a corporate portal, your only chance for success is to get all of these elements right, and then to make sure that you and your stakeholders are all on the same page. SharePoint 2010 can be dangerous to your career: Expectations are often set very high, and not enough time is invested in understanding how those expectations can be met. Many SharePoint 2010 projects fail to meet their initial goals. Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture arms you with proven tools that will help you to ensure that there is an agreement on the goals and scope, and how to then efficiently design your taxonomies. With author Ruven Gotz' work (with contributions from Michal Pisarek and Sarah Haase) at your side, You will learn how to educate your users on what metadata is and why it is important so you can build SharePoint 2010 solutions that exceed the expectations of your users. This book: Gives you practical approaches that have been proven in the field Explains how to use visual mind mapping tools and diagramming tools that provide clarity to all stakeholders Gives you techniques on how to teach and motivate your users for adoption and success

SharePoint MVPs offer practical WF4 guidance for SharePoint 2010 developers With the new Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) toolkit in SharePoint 2010, companies have new ways to build custom solutions for common or frequent business processes. This unique book is packed with instructions and tips that show you how. You'll use WF4 to create and implement office-practical apps such as expense report approvals, RFPs, sale pipeline management, and more. The book also covers how to design custom activities with SharePoint Designer 2010. Explains how to build business solutions using the Workflow Foundation 4 toolkit in SharePoint 2010 Shows even non-IT readers how to create and implement processes such as sales pipeline management, creating and managing RFPs, setting up a conference room scheduling solution across a multi-national company, and more Explores the basics vital to all process design: system analysis, researching requirements, and basic design considerations Includes a SharePoint 2007 template for Training and Scheduling; the book walks you through how to upgrade that to 2010 and extend it with new features Create the processes your business needs with SharePoint 2010's new Workflow 4 and this practical guide.