or supported by your company’s IT department , or possibly
through a hosted implementation such as Microsoft Share-
Point Online. In this light, this book does not st art with the
details of ins talling or configuring the SharePoint platform.
Instead, the materials focus on gett ing you up to speed using
the fea tures that Sha rePoint provides to help manage informa-
tion an d collaborate with colleagues.
Section 2 covers what’s new in SharePoint 2010. This section
informs those of you with a pretty good understanding of previ-
ous versions of SharePoint about the new and exciting capabili-
ties that are in SharePoint 2010, as well as improvements.
Section 3 introduces SharePoint sites and quickly gets you
started usin g the capabilities of SharePoint 2010. In this sec-
tion you learn how to create and configure a basic SharePoint
site and how to customize site themes and navigation menus.
You also learn how to save your customizations as a tem plate
that c an be used to create additional s ites.
Section 4 covers some of the more a dvanced features
that can help you better manage information in SharePoint
sites within your organization. In this section you learn how
you can configure content types and site columns to capture
information stored in SharePoint lists and libraries. You learn
how you can customize document creation with templates and
enhan ce collaboration and conte nt management with work-
flow capabilities.
Sections 5 and 6 cover t he funda mentals of how you
most commonly use SharePoint 2010 for working with con-
tent. SharePoint lists and libraries are used to stor e and col-
laborate on documents and other types of information, like
calendar s and tasks. In Section 5 you learn how to use the
ribbon menu of lists and librari es to access the conte nt man-
agement feat ures of SharePoint and how to customize the dis-
play of information wi t h views. Section 6 provides addition al
details related to wor king with documents and r ecords.
Section 7 covers the specialized features SharePoint
offers for working with media assets such as video, audio, and
images, including how to upload and stream video an d audio
and config ure image slide shows.
Section 8 goes over the powerful information manage-
ment policies that come with SharePoint 2010—features such
as auditing, document labels, document bar codes, and expira-
tion policies. By using these features you can get a hold of your
content and manage it a lot more effectively than in the past.
Section 9 focuses on the how SharePoint can help orga-
nize people and processe s with support for project tasks ,
issues, and group discussion lists. You l earn how Sh arePoint
provides special integration with Microsoft Project, a desktop
project management application.
Section 10 explains how to ga in an even gre a t er level of
functionality and ease of use by extending and integrating
SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft Office on desktop compu t ers
and mobile devices. You also learn about a special feature that
allows broadcasting PowerPoint presentations.
Section 11 helps you create and publish co nt ent using
SharePoint blog sites. Blogs are a popular approach to captur-
ing and publishing information by using short and informal
posts that can be organized using categories and allow reader
feedback to b e captured as ratings and comments.
Section 12 covers one of the most important a spects of
SharePoint—security. In this section we go over security levels,
creating groups, inheritance, and inviting people to your
SharePoint site.
Section 13 expands on the ca pabilities of SharePoint
blogs covered in Section 11, with guidance on how to use th e
advanced social networking features found in the SharePoint
Standar d and Enterprise Server edit ions. You learn how to
configure a personal profile that can include a picture, contact
information, pr ofessional expert ise, and other infor mation.
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