In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to create great websites, collaboration and content management applications, and social solutions with SharePoint Foundation 2010! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll learn how to build, administer, and secure solutions with the free version of SharePoint 2010. One step at a time, you’ll master libraries, lists, and other powerful features; create blogs and wikis; provide advanced search and workflow; integrate SharePoint with Office; and much more. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, helping you get the job done fast–-and get it done right!

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common SharePoint Foundation 2010 tasks.

Quizzes at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

Learn how to…

  • Install SharePoint Foundation 2010 and use the Administration Site
  • Add users, provide user access rights, and enforce authentication
  • Plan the most effective structure for your site
  • Make the most of libraries, lists, views, folders, Web parts, and other powerful features
  • Construct and work with wikis, blogs, and other social features
  • Provide fast, efficient search with Microsoft Search Server 2010 Express
  • Integrate either Office 2007 or Office 2010 with SharePoint Foundation
  • Share OneNote notebooks, Access tables, Outlook calendars and contacts, and more
  • Instantly create useful reports based on one or more SharePoint lists
  • Create efficient workflows with SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Add even more functionality to your sites and applications

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and business matters, allowing you to learn the essentials of SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the ground up.

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks.

 

The Q&A sections and quizzes at the end of each lesson help you build and test your knowledge.

 

Notes, Tips, and Cautions point out shortcuts, solutions, and potential problems to avoid.

 

Learn how to…

  • Explore and fully utilize all the core WSS 3.0 features
  • Install WSS 3.0 on different versions of Windows Server
  • Explore the interoperability between SharePoint and various Office 2003 and 2007 products
  • Create and enhance workflows
  • Manage user permissions at all levels
  • Enhance search functionality using Search Server 2008 Express
  • Create internal blogs using the Extended Blog Edition
  • Get your site up-and-running quickly with the Microsoft application templates
  • Enhance your site by utilizing free and commercial third-party web parts
  • Create sites in different languages