Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes

Every year, SharePoint becomes more popular, and more people need to learn how to work with it effectively. As SharePoint has increasingly been adopted in a wider spectrum of organizations, many more people are attempting to use it without formal training. Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes is designed to help. It delivers easy instructions, straight answers, and fast results for everyone who works with SharePoint 2007: users, administrators, and IT support professional. The previous edition of this book -- for SharePoint 2003 - was a best-seller. This book builds on the success of its predecessor. Everything's been updated for SharePoint 2007, and the authors have added extensive new content for users, site administrators, and site collection administrators alike. Fast access to instructions for every common task, plus reliable, concise answers to the most widely asked questions Organized into lessons that distill the most crucial information on each topic, and add tips, tricks, and resources Thoroughly updated from our SharePoint 2003 best-seller, with more information for users, site admins, site collection admins, and IT support staff

Table of Contents:
Part 1: SharePoint for the End User 1. Introduction to SharePoint 2007 2. Accessing SharePoint Sites 3. Document Library Basics 4. Document Library Intermediate 5. Document Library Advanced 6. Picture Library and Slide Library Overview 7. Finding What You Need 8. Using the Events Lists 9. Using the Tasks lists 10. Effectively using the Wiki Page Part 2: SharePoint for the Site Administrator 11. Creating and Planning Sites 12. Creating the Right Lists and Libraries 13. Managing lists and libraries 14. Leveraging Metadata 15. Modifying and Creating Views in Libraries and Lists 16. Creating Workflows for Libraries 17. Creating Form Libraries 18. Creating Custom Lists and Importing Spreadsheets 19. Customizing the Home Page 20. Site Administration Tools Review Part 3: SharePoint 2007 for the Site Collection Administrator 21. Summarizes the role of the Site Collection Administrator 22. An Overview of the Site Collection Templates 23. Review the Galleries 24. Master Pages Demystified 25. Site Columns and Content Types 26. Site Collection Policies Part 4: SharePoint 2007 for the Architect and Implementer 27. Installing the SharePoint Binaries 28. Creating a Farm 29. Adding Roles to Servers 30. Creating a Shared Services Provider 31. Creating Web Applications and Site Collections 32. Configuring Search and Indexes 33. Blocked File Types Part 5: SharePoint 2007 for the Server Administrator 34. Securing SharePoint 2007 35. Backing up and Restoring SharePoint 2007 using the Central Administration Console Tools 36. Backing up and Restoring SharePoint 2007 using SQL Tools 37. Backing up and Restoring SharePoint using STSADM 38. Extending Web Applications and Working with Zones 39. Creating Multiple Content Databases 40. Administering and Monitoring SharePoint 2007 41. Using the STSADM Command Line Tool to Administer SharePoint 42. Overview of Using the SharePoint Central Admin Tools 43. Administering SQL Server Databases 44. Administering Internet Information Services (IIS) on SharePoint Servers Part 6 Advanced Server Administrator Tools 45. My Site Settings 46. Personalization Settings 47. Additional Search Tools 48. Excel Services Settings 49. Using Audiences 50. Understanding the BDC

About the Author :
Colin Spence (San Francisco, CA), MCP, is a senior consultant, project manager, and technical writer specializing in the design, implementation, and support of SharePoint and related solutions. He co-authored the best-sellers Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Unleashed and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes. Michael Noel (San Francisco, CA), MS-MVP, MCSE+I, has nearly 20 years' experience helping companies drive business value from IT. His books include Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, and SharePoint 2003 Unleashed. Spence and Noel are partners at Convergent Computing (San Francisco, CA).