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If you’re looking for a starting point for a better understanding of SharePoint, this book is for you. Whether you have some knowledge of SharePoint or are just starting your exploration, you’ll come away with a better understanding of SharePoint’s features and functionality.
If you’re looking for a starting point for a better understanding of SharePoint, this book is for you. Whether you have some knowledge of SharePoint or are just starting your exploration, you’ll come away with a better understanding of SharePoint’s features and functionality.
Chapter 1: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Out of the Box
Chapter 2: SharePoint Server 2007 Unleashed
Chapter 3: SharePoint Server 2007 Revealed
Chapter 4: SharePoint Security Evolution
Chapter 5: High Availability for MOSS 2007 Server Farms
Chapter 6: The File Share Is Dead: Long Live SharePoint Document Libraries
Chapter 7: Stsadm: Taking Control of SharePoint Administration
Chapter 8: Safeguard Your SharePoint Content with Data Protection Manager
In Chapter 1, to understand and implement SharePoint Services 3.0 and get a feel for some of its key new features, the author creates an intranet home page and a SharePoint site for the IT department of a fictional company, Windomain.com. You’ll see why the author believes the grim reaper is a-knockin’ on your shared folders’ doors.
Chapter 2 offers an overview of SharePoint 2007. Whether you’re new to SharePoint Server and want to learn what business value it offers your organization, or you’ve experienced earlier versions of SharePoint Server and want to see what 2007 brings, the author guides you on a journey into SharePoint Server 2007 through seven “experiences.”
In Chapter 3, the author continues an exploration of SharePoint 2007 by looking at eight more experiences (including one that repeats a lesson from last time), which will help you become familiar with SharePoint Server 2007 sites, lists, and libraries, as well as SharePoint workflow, forms, and business intelligence.
In Chapter 4, the author looks at how security has evolved in SharePoint, how each version tackles authentication and authorization, and how SharePoint 2007 will benefit your organization.
Chapter 5 provides an overview of MOSS 2007 high availability. The author discusses four key areas that will help you design and deploy a highly available SharePoint environment: selecting the appropriate architecture, understanding core services and their availability options, implementing your high-availability strategy, and planning for failures.
In Chapter 6, the author talks about how the file share is fading into the sunset, and a new day is dawning: the era of collaborative document sharing using Windows SharePoint Services document libraries. To grasp the implications of the shift to document libraries, you’ll need to understand first why they’re destined to replace file shares in most common file-sharing scenarios. From there, you’ll need to get a handle on the fundamentals of document library implementation: creating, configuring, and securing libraries and viewing, editing, and monitoring documents in those libraries.
Chapter 7 looks at how each new version of SharePoint has brought changes in the options for managing it via a graphical UI. The current versions of SharePoint—Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007—provide a Web UI called Central Administration. This application lets you manage the Share- Point farm at different levels—from individual services on servers to Web applications to shared services. However, some operations, for example changing the schedule of a background task or setting the diacritical sensitivity on a search index, aren’t exposed through the UI. To perform such operations, SharePoint administrators need to call upon the stsadm .exe command-line utility. Let’s look at what Stsadm is, some of the operations it supports, and how you can use it to automate common management tasks.
In the last chapter, you’ll learn about how, with the release of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007, administrators have access to a rich set of recovery tools for Share- Point, allowing for advanced snapshot-based recovery of SharePoint content from within a simple but powerful interface. You’ll learn what it takes to deploy DPM into a Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment, including best-practice architectures and maintenance requirements of the application.