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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook contains step-by-step instructions for SharePoint administrators to gain control of their SharePoint environment. The book is designed so that you can refer to it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and read those that interest you in no particular order. If you are a SharePoint Administrator looking for solutions to the many problems faced while managing SharePoint, then this book is for you. It is written for SharePoint administrators who are either already working on SharePoint, or have recently started working and eager to learn more about SharePoint administration. You need to have some basic knowledge of SharePoint in order to follow the recipes in this book.

Learn to create an effective business strategy using Microsoft's BI stack

Microsoft Business Intelligence tools are among the most widely used applications for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data to enable the enterprise to make sound business decisions. The tools include SharePoint Server, the Office Suite, PerformancePoint Server, and SQL Server, among others.

With so much jargon and so many technologies involved, Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies provides a much-needed step-by-step explanation of what's involved and how to use this powerful package to improve your business.

• Microsoft Business Intelligence encompasses a broad collection of tools designed to help business owners and managers direct the enterprise effectively
• This guide provides an overview of SharePoint, PerformancePoint, the SQL Server suite, Microsoft Office, and the BI development technologies
• Explains how the various technologies work together to solve functional problems
• Translates the buzzwords and shows you how to create your business strategy
• Examines related technologies including data warehousing, data marts, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), data mining, reporting, dashboards, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Simplifies this complex package to get you up and running quickly

Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies demystifies these essential tools for enterprise managers, business analysts, and others who need to get up to speed.

Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls and AJAX Components is a reference for the serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object–oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, and server control development. This book also covers SharePoint and targets the latest version of Visual Studio (2008) and the .NET Framework (3.5). Highlights include the following:

• Covers the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX technology
• Describes the ASP.NET server control architecture in Visual Studio 2008/ASP.NET 3.5 covering state management, events, rendering, cross-platform support, control life cycle, localization, and deployment
• Demonstrates how to integrate client–side development technologies such as DHTML and JavaScript with server control technology to create powerful interactive controls

What you’ll learn

• Create a powerful suite of interactive controls using ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX
• Enrich the design–time experience when building custom server controls
• Integrate client–side development technologies such as DHTML and JavaScript with server control technology
• Develop SharePoint server controls
• Learn the background on user controls as compared to server controls
• Work with the new mobile controls in ASP.NET 3.5

Who this book is for

The serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object-oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET 3.5 and server control development.

This is a fast-paced and to-the-point handbook, it takes you through the important aspects that you need to know when working with Windows WF. The range of topics that we cover in this book is driven by what the working developer needs to know. It is neither a comprehensive reference to the whole WF architecture, nor a strategic guide to the complete application development lifecycle. If you find yourself working with Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 and you have basic knowledge of C#/.NET Framework/ VB and workflow, this book is for you. It will be best if you know both C# and VB, because WF 4.0 expression can only be written in VB (at the time of writing). With this book, you will be able to enhance your applications with flexible workflow capabilities using WF 4.0. To follow the recipes, you will need to be comfortable with .NET Framework, C# programming, basics of SOA, and how to develop them.

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.

With the passing of time, new and interesting topics related to SharePoint products and technologies have arisen, and Pro SharePoint 2003 Development Techniques is the first to cover them. This book discusses the landscape of SharePoint 2003 development in 2006 and beyond, integrating all of the new technologies that have become mainstream.

This book takes current technologies and applies them in a SharePoint context. This includes ASP.NET 2.0, the new version of SQL Server, and a matured InfoPath. Also covered are software factories, which are becoming popular, and Ajax-style web development, which is already popular.

The book also addresses BizTalk Server 2006, with its built-in SharePoint support and landscape of developing workflow applications. You'll read about WF and InfoPath integration with SharePoint 2003. And you’ll learn how to develop BizTalk Server 2006 compatible workflows in SharePoint 2003. You’ll also learn about domain-specific languages, guidance automation tools, and more.

There's nothing like teamwork for making progress on a project, but sharing information and building on each other's successes can be challenging when your team is scattered across the miles. Microsoft's SharePoint helps teams and organizations close the distance. With SharePoint, groups construct web sites specifically for collaboration--sites where individuals can capture and share ideas, and work together on documents, tasks, contacts, and events. It's the next best thing to being in the room together.

Unfortunately, much of the documentation for SharePoint is written to help system administrators get it up and running, which often leaves end users in the dark. The SharePoint User's Guide takes another approach: this quick and easy guide shows you what you need to know to start using SharePoint effectively and how to get the most from it. You'll learn how to create sites that your organization can use to work together or independently, from an end user's point of view. Now, even beginners can learn how to:

• access sites that are already set up
• create new sites
• personalize sites
• use the document and picture libraries for adding and editing content
• add discussion boards and surveys to a site
• enhance security

You'll learn how you can receive alerts to tell you when existing documents and information have been changed, or when new information or documents have been added. You can even share select information with partners or customers outside your organization. No one that uses SharePoint collaboration services can afford to be without this handy book.

The SharePoint User's Guide is designed to help you find answers quickly, explaining key concepts and major points in straightforward language. With SharePoint, any team or organization can overcome geographic or time-zone challenges, and the SharePoint User's Guide will show them how.

Content management, or CM, is the set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. In recent times this information is typically referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content. Digital content may take the form of text, such as documents, multimedia files, such as audio or video files, or any other file type which follows a content lifecycle which requires management.

This book is your ultimate resource for Content Management. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Content Management right away, covering: Content management, List of content management systems, Content management system, Data proliferation, Information Lifecycle Management, Information repository, List of content management frameworks, Storage virtualization, Accrisoft Freedom, AdaptCMS, Advanced Processing & Imaging, Aiki Framework, Amilia, ArcaCMF, Ariadne (software), Avactis, AxCMS.net, Backbase, Base Feeder, BEdita, Beyondoc, Big Medium, BuddyPress, Calenco, Campsite (software), Campus medicus, Cascade Server, CBKSoft, CcHost, Chamilo, CityDesk, CivicSpace, Cognidox, ColumbiaSoft, Component content management system, Composite C1, Computer Output to Laser Disc, ConcourseConnect, Conference management system, Contegro, Content delivery platform, Content inventory, Content Management Interoperability Services, Content Management Website, Content repository, Content repository API for Java, Content slammer, CoreMedia CMS, Covide, CreoType, Croogo, Daisy (software), Dashboard (Web administration), Day Software, Django-cms, DocPoint, Documentum, Docuverse, DotCMS, Doxia, Drupal, DynPG, EchoSign, Edicy, Elcom CMS, CDiscovery, Electronic Document and Records Management System, EllisLab, Enprovia, ENQUIRE, Enterprise Content Integration, Enterprise content management, Ever Team, Executive Technologies, EXo Platform, Exponent CMS, Exsite Webware (software), FileDirector, Flagship Docs, Flash CMS, Folio Corporation, Gamboo Web Suite, Geeklog, Geospatial Content Management System, Globalization management system, GNU Enterprise, GX WebManager Community Edition, Habari, Habitat (software), Helixo CMS, HP TRIM Records Management System, Hylos, IGrafx, Infopark, IonPanel, ISIS Papyrus, Jadu, JCore, Jive SBS, Joint Staff Information Management Division (United States), Journalness, Jumper 2.0, Kentico CMS, Knowledge Plaza, KnowledgeTree, KnowledgeView, LaunchPadCMS, LiteDiary, M-Files, Magnolia (CMS), Mediasurface, MES Hybrid Document Systems, Microsoft Content Management Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Mixedink, MMBase, Mobile content management system, Movable Type, Moxietype, MyCMS, Newscoop, Nuvvo, Opasnet, Open Text Corporation, OPIDIS, Orchard Project, Organice, OsCMax, OsCommerce, Owis, PDF/UA, Pennd, PENS (software), Perceptive Software, PG Real Estate Solution, Phire CMS, PHP content management system, PHP-Fusion, PHP-Nuke, PHPSlash, PhpWarmSky, Phpweblog, PhpWebSite, Pixie (CMS), Plateau Talent Management Suite, Platformic, Pluck (software), PrestaShop, Project Xanadu, ProjectWise, Pushit, Qiqqa, RavenNuke, Records management, RedDot, Redmap, Refinery CMS, RenovatioCMS, Report2Web, Saepio, Saperion, Satchmo (online store), SDL Tridion, Serendipity (software), Silex Flash CMS, Sitecore, Sitefinity, Sitekit, SOBI2, SoftSolutions, Sorce intranet, Spider (portal), Squiz, StoryServer, Subtext (software), TangoCMS, TeamSite, Telligent Community, TerminalFour, ThoughtFarmer, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, Tinderbox..and much more.

This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Content Management. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Content Management with the objectivity of experienced professionals.

Master SharePoint 2010 branding and interface development with deep and to-the-point How To's. Get task-specific guidance and detailed code samples to help you get started right away.
This book is meant for web developers and user interface developers and will bridge anything else you will need to successfully apply your existing branding skills to the SharePoint 2010.
Here are top things you will learn with this book:
1.Setting up your development virtual machine and overview of SharePoint 2010 branding; What’s Where and Why?
2.Customizing SharePoint 2010 Collaboration Sites. At the end of this chapter, we’ll actually transfer branding of a traditionally cut site (HTML, CSS etc) to SharePoint 2010
3.Customizing SharePoint 2010 Publishing Sites. Here you will learn all about branding large enterprise sites
4.Customizing SharePoint 2010 Specialized Sites. All about customizing user profile sites, blog site, and other specialized sites
5.Extending Search Look and Feel. Learn about particulars of branding SharePoint 2010 Search and its components
6.Integrating Third-Party UI Components into SharePoint. Here, we look at integrating controls from Telerik and your own custom controls
7.Branding SharePoint Publishing and Custom Pages
8.Changing the Look of SharePoint Forms. Forms are heavily used in SharePoint 2010 and rarely explained how to brand, here we'll learn all about branding list and item forms
9.Client-Side Interaction with External and Local Web Services. Particulars of integrating external services with SharePoint 2010
10. Creating SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Components and Managing Existing Ribbon Elements. Get all the samples and tips on how to extend SharePoint 2010 ribbon
Download book source code here: www.sharemuch.com/download
Code examples in this book as well as downloadable source code have been thoroughly tested. With the source code provided, you will be able to jump right into the example and build on the top of it to apply your specific scenario.