SharePoint^® 2010 Technologies:
A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

Overview of SharePoint 2010

• Facilitating business collaboration for organisations and the Web
• Connecting and empowering people
• Unifying organisational systems

Organising Information with SharePoint Sites

Getting started with site templates

• Planning for site taxonomy
• Matching business requirements to site types

Customising your site

• Updating the look and feel of your site
• Streamlining navigation with Quick launch and Top link
• Organising sites with PowerPoint themes

Effectively Managing and Securing Data

Categorising content

• Centrally define taxonomies with managed metadata
• Establishing document standards with document sets
• Ranking content with ratings
• Decentralising folksonomies with metadata tagging

Storing information

• Lists: standard, custom, external
• Libraries: documents, pages, pictures, forms
• Enhancing document management with version history, content approval and check in/check out
• Encapsulating data requirements with content types

Retrieving relevant information

• Assigning Unique Document IDs
• Integrating alternate data sources with Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• Delivering a rich user experience with SharePoint search

Ensuring information integrity

• Developing a site management plan
• Assigning content permissions
• Choosing an appropriate authentication provider

Facilitating Offline Collaboration

Fostering team communication

• Discussion boards
• Wikis
• Announcements
• Calendars
• Tasks
• Utilising blogs to share ideas and knowledge
• Establishing a business process with workflows
• Selecting appropriate templates for communication

Connecting SharePoint communities

• Interacting with social networks through My Sites
• Refining data significance with audience targeting

Extending SharePoint with Office 2010

Increasing business productivity

• Aggregating SharePoint schedules, contacts, documents and discussions in Outlook
• Going offline with SharePoint Workspaces
• Creating rich forms with Infopath
• Synchronising lists with Excel

Consolidating data reporting

• Developing a dashboard with the Chart Web Part
• Synchronising Access tables with SharePoint lists

Tailoring Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010

Automating business processes with custom workflows

• Taking advantage of the Workflow Designer Wizard
• Defining workflow steps and establishing actions
• Creating workflows with Visio

Displaying dynamic data

• Linking to multiple data sources
• Populating a data form

Adapting Features for Custom Business Solutions

Maximising "out-of-the-box" tools

• Exploiting workspaces and routing final documents
• Delivering optimised content with SharePoint mobile
• Leveraging cross-browser capabilities

Accessing Web-based components

• Viewing spreadsheets on the Web with Excel Services
• Connecting related Web Parts
• Broadcasting presentations via the PowerPoint Slide Library
• Updating documents on the Web with Office Web Applications
• Rendering diagrams with Visio Services

Building Line of Business (LOB) applications

• Architecting "no code" composite applications
• Updating LOB databases with external content types