Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 provide a collection of tools and services you can use to improve user and team productivity, make information sharing more effective, and facilitate business decision-making processes. In order to get the most out of SharePoint 2010, you need to understand how to best use the capabilities to support your information management, collaboration, and business process management needs.
The SharePoint 2010 User's Guide is designed to provide you with the information you need to effectively use these tools. Whether you are using SharePoint as an intranet or business solution platform, you will learn how to use the resources (such as lists, libraries, and sites) and services (such as publishing, workflow and policies) that make up these environments. Information and process owners will be given the knowledge they need to build and manage solutions. Information and process consumers will be given the knowledge they need to effectively use SharePoint resources.
In this book Seth Bates and Tony Smith walk you through the components and capabilities that make up a SharePoint 2010 environment. They provide step-by-step instructions for using and managing these elements, as well as recommendations for how to best leverage them. As a reader, you’ll then learn about three common SharePoint uses, document management, project management, and reporting, and walk through creating samples of these solutions, understanding the challenges these solutions are designed to address and the benefits they can provide.
The authors have brought together this information based on their extensive experience working with these tools and with business users who effectively leverages these technologies within their organizations. These experiences were incorporated into the writing of this book to make it easy for you to gain the knowledge you need to make the most of the product.
Author Information
Seth Bates is the delivery manager for DataLan Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner specializing in SharePoint solutions located in White Plains, New York. Bates coauthored the SharePoint 2010 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform and the SharePoint 2003 User's Guide and performed the technical editing for on many other SharePoint books and published articles on SharePoint topics as well. Bates has over 10 years of experience engineering business solutions, primarily using Microsoft technologies. With experience in all phases of the software engineering life cycle, he brings a broad mix of analysis, design, and implementation expertise to his work.
Tony Smith is a product manager for DataLan Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, located in White Plains, New York. Tony coauthored both the SharePoint 2010 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform and the SharePoint 2003 User's Guide. He has been working with SharePoint technologies since they were originally introduced in 2001 and has been working with SharePoint 2010 since its initial technical preview pre-beta release. He also has experience designing and deploying SharePoint solutions in a wide range of organizations across many industries. With a background that includes business analysis, network engineering, and application development, Tony has over 15 years of experience engineering business solutions, and regularly presents to engineers, analysts, and business decision makers.