Preface

This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. It draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platform's underlying services to provide solutions that can support social collaboration, content and document management, as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business solution that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book, the reader will understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Building an Effective Intranet: An Effective Intranet Site for your organization that maximizes the site's ability to aggregate content and is highly effective at communicating important messages.

Chapter 2, Building an Out of Office Delegation Solution: A Workflow Out of Office Solution that allows users to manage their out of office dates and automate task assignments to a delegated resource.

Chapter 3, Building an Enterprise Content Management Solution: An Enterprise Content Management solution designed to support large scale document repositories with the ability to route documents automatically between site collections based on metadata attributes along with custom solutions for surfacing the relevant content.

Chapter 4, Building an Engaging Community Site: An Engaging Community Site including custom features that can be used to enhance collaboration and provide an information sharing system.

Chapter 5, Building a Site Request and Provisioning System: A Site Request and Provisioning System that supports automated site provisioning for user requested sites in a way that supports complex dynamic feature activation and configuration.

Chapter 6, Building a Project Site Template: An overview of the template methods available with SharePoint along with a detailed approach for creating web templates in order to create a project site template to support project initiatives and track Issues, Tasks, and Contacts.

Chapter 7, Building a Project Management Main Site: A Project Management Main Site demonstrating a solution that can aggregate the key metrics and status information from the project management sites created in the previous chapter.

Chapter 8, Building a Task Rollup Solution: Create custom Web Parts that can aggregate tasks from the specified sites.

Chapter 9, Building a Site Directory with SharePoint Search: Solutions to leverage SharePoint Search to provide an optimized experience making it easier for users to search and discover relevant sites.

Bonus Chapter, Understanding SharePoint Development Choices: This chapter provides a brief overview of the different customization options that are available, tools that can be used to create them, as well as some additional considerations when choosing a development path.

You can download the Bonus Chapter from: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/SharePoint_development.pdf

What you need for this book

This chapter will require the following software:

• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise

• Visual Studio 2010 Professional

• SharePoint Designer 2010

Who this book is for

This book is for SharePoint developers, consultants, and administrators who want to build a range of SharePoint solutions that extend the SharePoint platform, and see how to apply the many available SharePoint features in different scenarios.

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