Essential SharePoint 2007
by By Hanley, Susan, Jamison, Scott, and Cardarelli, Mauro
Category: Computers , Networking , Intranets & Extranets

Essential SharePoint® 2007  focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making, streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems. Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint deployment–showing exactly how to maximize business value and reduce project risk.     Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work–with special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can make or break your project. Learn how to:      Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies    Build SharePoint applications people want to use    Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis    Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable    Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process      Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services    Organize and staff SharePoint support teams    Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003    Whether you're a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy–and deliver quantifiable results fast.           Preface  Chapter 1 Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success    Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact Collaboration  Across the Extended Enterprise    Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration  and Solutions Platform  Chapter 4 SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals  Chapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture    Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007:  Upgrade or Rebuild?  Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery Planning     Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Management: Documents,  Records, and Web    Chapter 10 Enterprise Search  Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms    Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007  Chapter 13 Providing Business Intelligence  Appendix A SharePoint User Tasks    Appendix B OS/Browser/Office Compatibility   Index