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
deploymentâshowing 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 workâwith
special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can
make or break your project. Learn how to:
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Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies
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Build SharePoint applications people want to use
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Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis
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Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable
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Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process
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Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services
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Organize and staff SharePoint support teams
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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
