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Deploy and support Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies in your organization—and deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions—with expertise from the Microsoft SharePoint teams. This official RESOURCE KIT packs more than 1000 pages of in-depth technical information, including drill-down into Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 technologies, specifications, architecture, and security services. Get critical details and guidance for planning, administration, and solution development—along with tools, scripts, and an eBook on CD. You get all the resources you need to help maximize your organization’s productivity and help reduce ownership and support costs.

Get in-depth guidance—straight from the Microsoft SharePoint teams—on how to:

• Plan your deployment—from a single server to a large server farm
• Step through installation instructions for various scenarios, including how to uninstall and repair an installation
• Develop your information management structure
• Perform capacity planning; plan and test your topology
• Plan and implement defense-in-depth, from security policies to firewalls and authentication services
• Monitor server farm performance to create a scale-out strategy
• Facilitate business-to-business collaboration through an extranet
• Set up and configure shared services; manage internal and third-party content
• Customize sites with Web Parts, the object model, and Microsoft Visual Studio—code samples included
• Use SharePoint Products and Technologies with the Microsoft Office System

On the CD, get tools to migrate servers, manage security features, troubleshoot problems, and more, including:

• CustomToolPane
• SharePoint Configuration Analyzer
• Simple Web Parts in Microsoft Visual Basic and C#
• Smigrate
• SPBackup
• SPSUserUtil
• Usage Reports
• Web Part Toolkit
• Scripts
• Fully searchable eBook of this complete RESOURCE KIT

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

Professional Excel Services

With this unique resource, you'll discover how to unlock the power behind Excel Services in order to effectively utilize server-side spreadsheet calculation and rendering. It walks you through all programming aspects of Excel Services, covering everything from APIs to UDFs (User Defined Functions). You'll quickly gain a strong understanding of what Excel Services is, how to work with it, and how to develop applications using its robust features.

Written by the senior software development engineer for Excel Services, this book first provides you with detailed explanations about the various programmability options Excel Services offers. You'll then gain an inside look into the problematic areas that you must avoid. And you'll find ideas for solutions that you can create using this server technology. This information will help you extend and work against Excel Services as you develop business-critical applications.

What you will learn from this book

• Steps for streamlining work with the Excel Web Services API
• In-depth explanations about Excel Services UDFs, including various ways to make them work in Excel 2007
• How to use Excel Models to extend your applications
• Various techniques used to employ both Excel and Excel Services in end-to-end solutions.
• How to streamline processes that rely on Excel spreadsheets, such as modeling, handling, and storing data
• Tools used for generating Excel Workbook-based custom Web services, RSS feeds, and more
• Hints for building your own mashups using Excel Services

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who have built applications on Excel or have used a spreadsheet as a starting point for code. You should be comfortable working in the .NET environment.

"More solutions are built on Microsoft Excel than any other Office tool. Excel Services extends Excel to the server and opens up a whole new world of applications. This book is a must read for developers looking to take advantage of this new server functionality."
—PJ Hough, Director of Program Managment, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corporation

"Excel is probably the most used end-user tool among our Microsoft customers, and Excel 2007 is emphasizing this trend even more. By adding Excel Services to the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack, our customers have the ground to create better and more manageable enterprise-oriented solutions while using Excel! This book helps you understand what Excel Services is, how it works, and how to develop solutions using the web services API it provides. It is a great resource for any serious developer looking to leverage the power of Excel in enterprise applications."
—Stig Torngaard Hammeken, VP of Consulting, Platon A/S

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Essential guide to developing and deploying high-profile reports in SharePoint

Build customized reports quickly and efficiently with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services for SharePoint sites and this unique guide. Developers, you'll learn report development and deployment; SharePoint or SQL Server Reporting Services administrators, you'll see how to leverage SharePoint to use SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode.

This valuable book walks users through the entire process: planning, developing, and deploying reports. You'll discover techniques, tricks, and workarounds that allow you to produce great-looking charts and reports for your SharePoint sites.

• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is the customizable reporting solution for any developer using VB, C#, or ASP.NET who ties into SQL Server to build reports or generate data analysis; SharePoint is Microsoft's portal development platform and is central to the Microsoft Office and developer platform
• This book from an expert author team of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 developers covers not only topics relevant to developers, it also goes into the specific nuances of using these reports in a SharePoint environments, such as what to consider when setting up SSRS to run specifically in SharePoint integration mode with WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007
• Topics include introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services, setting up SQL Server Reporting Services for SharePoint 2007, planning your report project, an overview of Business Intelligence Design Studio (BIDS) 2008, intermediate and advanced reporting techniques, deploying to SharePoint 2007, displaying reports, and more

Discover new, efficient ways to leverage your core investment in SharePoint 2007 with this one-of-a-kind guide.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Hands-on solutions for common SharePoint 2010 challenges

Aimed at the more than 100 million licensed SharePoint 2010 users, this indispensable field guide addresses an abundance of common SharePoint 2010 problems and offers proven solutions. A team of authors encourages you to customize SharePoint beyond the out-of-the-box functionality so that you can build more complex solutions to these challenges. You?ll discover intricate details and specific full-scale solutions that you can then implement to your own SharePoint 2010 solutions.

• Tackles a variety of SharePoint 2010 problems ranging from simple to complex, and offers sound solutions
• Details the SharePoint object model, reviews site provisioning solutions, and explores scalable applications
• Looks at UI design and branding, visual web parts, and PowerShell
• Discusses custom global navigation, field types, content types, and list templates

SharePoint 2010 Field Guide provides you with the right direction for building solutions to SharePoint 2010 problems.

Complete coverage of all key .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 languages and technologies

.NET 4 is Microsoft's latest version of their core programming platform, and Visual Studio 2010 is the toolset that helps write .NET 4 applications. This comprehensive resource offers one-stop shopping for all you need to know to get productive with .NET 4. Experienced author and .NET guru Mitchel Sellers reviews all the important new features of .NET 4, including .NET charting and ASP.NET charting, ASP.NET dynamic data and jQuery, and the addition of F# as a supported package language.

The expansive coverage is divided into six distinctive parts for easy navigation, and addresses: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, ASP.NET, the C# language, the VB.NET language, and the new F# language. A practical approach and complete examples round out this much-needed reference.

• Focuses on the new and important features of the latest version Microsoft's core programming platform-.NET 4-as well as Visual Studio 2010, which allows you to write .NET 4 applications
• Provides comprehensive coverage divided into six parts: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, ASP.NET, the C# language, the VB.NET language, and the new F# language
• Discusses Visual Studio snippets and templates, .NET charting components, the .NET framework and WPF, LINQ, and the Entity framework
• Explores various aspects of Visual Basic 2010, such as multi-line lambdas, auto-implemented properties, nullable optional parameters, and more

This investigative look at .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 will help you identify and isolate key elements that can benefit you immediately.

As the first technical book of its kind, this unique resource walks you through the process of building a real-world application using Domain-Driven Design implemented in C#. Based on a real application for an existing company, each chapter is broken down into specific modules so that you can identify the problem, decide what solution will provide the best results, and then execute that design to solve the problem. With each chapter, you'll build a complete project from beginning to end.

SharePoint is an increasingly important enterprise application used by organizations across the world as part of their core infrastructure. Building the SharePoint User Experience provides a comprehensive reference to tailoring the SharePoint User Interface to suit the needs of a reader’s project, increasing their products visual appeal, and professionalism. This is a vital skill for all SharePoint developers.

Get field-tested best practices and proven techniques for designing, deploying, operating, and optimizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part of the new Best Practices series for IT professionals from Microsoft Press®, this guide is written by leading SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint team members who ve worked extensively with real-world deployments and customers. You ll find out how to deploy the software, design your environment, manage content, analyze and view data, perform disaster recovery, monitor performance, and more. You'll learn how to create SharePoint sites that help your organization collaborate, take advantage of business insights, and improve productivity with practical insights from the experts.

Key Book Benefits:

Delivers authoritative, field-tested best practices for working with Microsoft SharePoint solutions Covers the full IT lifecycle, from planning, design, and deployment through operations and support Includes a CD with job aids, utilities, and a fully searchable eBook

Take control of SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell!

Administer SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell with help from this practical guide. PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators explains how to configure and manage the latest version of the powerful enterprise collaboration platform. Find out how to automate the installation process, construct dynamic SharePoint environments, create and extend Web applications, and manage service applications. Backup, security, and performance enhancement techniques are also fully covered in this comprehensive resource.

• Understand key SharePoint 2010 concepts and components
• Learn the basics of PowerShell for SharePoint administration
• Develop custom PowerShell scripts and functions
• Automate SharePoint 2010 management using PowerShell
• Manage Web applications and content databases
• Administer sites and site collections
• Control list items and metadata
• Handle document management
• Enable Remote BLOB Storage
• Query SQL Server databases