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 decisionmaking 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.

This book 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. Their expertise shines as 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 embrace two common SharePoint uses, document management and project information management, 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 leverage 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. What you'll learn How to use common SharePoint resources like lists, libraries, and sites When and how workflows can control the flow and action of content How to create policies for SharePoint information management and control The knowledge you need to build and manage intranet and business process solutions Who this book is for

Whether you have not yet used SharePoint, have used previous versions, have just started using the basic features, or have been using it for a long of time, this book provides the skills you need to work efficiently with the capabilities SharePoint provides. Table of Contents Introduction to SharePoint Technologies Sites SharePoint Server 2010 List Concepts Lists Libraries Workflow and Information Management Policies Pages and Web Parts Personalization Features Enterprise Office Services Document Management Solutions Project Collaboration Solutions Dashboards and Reporting Solutions

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the next generation of Microsoft SharePoint technologies. These products expand on SharePoint's information-sharing and collaboration capabilities, which allow you to create true enterprise information management, information sharing, and collaboration solutions.

"SharePoint 2007 Users Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform" is the follow-up edition to the successful "SharePoint 2003 Users Guide" (Apress, 2005). This book provides guidance about the new workflows, interface, and other technologies within SharePoint 2007. Authors -->Seth Bates -->and -->Tony Smith--> describe SharePoint in a variety of environments, and have the expertise and ability to stand behind this useful guide, catering to anyone who works with SharePoint technologies in any capacity.

This book provides detailed instructions for using Microsoft SharePoint 2003. Users will be given the information necessary to execute basic and advanced features of SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services. It also includes instructions for all readers on how to build the most common SharePoint solution scenarios and descriptions of the best ways to configure SharePoint around these scenarios.

This book will also have a foreword by Scot Hillier, author of Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions (1-59059-338-3, 2004, Apress) and Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions (1-59059-456-8, Apress, 2005).