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Index
Cover
Contents
Part I: SharePoint Architect Knowledge Requirements
Chapter 1: A Digital Workforce for a Digital Age
Understanding Enterprise 2.0 and SharePoint 2010
Understanding SharePoint’s Value Proposition
Summary
Chapter 2: Understanding the Enterprise Landscape
Reviewing the Business Landscape
Reviewing the Technology Landscape
Reviewing the Legal Landscape
Reviewing the Information Landscape
Reviewing the End-User Landscape
Gathering Issues and Metrics
Summary
Chapter 3: Supporting Technology Knowledge Requirements
Infrastructure Technologies
Development Technologies
Microsoft Office Technologies
Complementary Third-Party Technologies
Summary
Chapter 4: Design Principles for Successful Deployments
Determining the Desired Solution
Determining Solution Characteristics
Understanding SharePoint Project Management
Designing for Storage
Designing for Governance
Designing for IT
Designing for Users
Designing for Information Workers
Designing the Information Architecture
Involving Key Users
Summary
Chapter 5: Learning How Microsoft Uses SharePoint 2010
Key Sites and Services
The Microsoft IT SharePoint “Dogfooding” Experience
Business Continuity Management
Virtualization
Governance and Life-Cycle Management
Summary
Part II: The SharePoint 2010 Platform
Chapter 6: SharePoint Fundamentals
Introducing the SharePoint Farm
Introducing Site Collections and Sites
Introducing Libraries, Lists, and List Items
Licensing and Software Versions
Summary
Chapter 7: Evolution of Sharepoint
SharePoint 2001 — From the Birthing Pool
SharePoint 2003 — Growing Pains
SharePoint 2007 — Coming of Age
Summary
Chapter 8: SharePoint 2010 Features and Capabilities
Publishing Services
Information Services
Collaboration Services
Search Services
Individual and Social Networking Services
Business Connectivity Services
Business Intelligence Services
Workflow and Forms Services
Summary
Chapter 9: Understanding SharePoint 2010 Service Applications
Service Application Model
Service Applications Life Cycle
Architectural Principles
Summary
Chapter 10: SharePoint 2010 Platform Architectures
Server Farm Topologies
Service Application Topologies
Search Topologies
Geographically Distributed Deployments
Selecting an Architecture
Scaling Your Architecture
Summary
Chapter 11: Working with Internal and External Data in SharePoint 2010
Manipulating Internal Data
Integrating External Data
List Data Platform Capabilities
Business Connectivity Services
Data Integration Extensibility
Aggregation
Working with Data
Incorporating Cloud Data and Compute Services
Taking Business Data Offline
Summary
Part III: Architecting Enterprise Portal Services
Chapter 12: Defining Your SharePoint 2010 Portal Strategy
The Example Scenario
Review the Business Environment
Engage Key Stakeholders
Define Portal Capabilities and Blueprint
Build Your Enterprise Portal Strategy
Define Your Road Map
Agree on Stakeholder Responsibilities
Best Practices
Summary
Chapter 13: Getting Started with Your Program and Projects
Requirements Activities
Technical Design Activities
Early Technical Leadership Activities
Program and Project Management Activities
Business Change and Adoption Activities
Summary
Chapter 14: Designing Your Information Architecture
Understanding Your Scope, Capabilities, and Constraints
Assessing Your Business Information Maturity Level
Defining Your Personas and Scenarios
Defining Your Enterprise Metadata Management Requirements
Defining Your SharePoint 2010 Containment Model
Designing for Governance
Defining Your Search Experience
Defining Your Navigation Experience
Defining Your People Experience
Defining Your Visual Experience
Defining Your Custom Functionality
Planning for Content Migration
Refining Your Design
Summary
Chapter 15: Designing Your Solution Architecture
Defining the Roles and Responsibilities of a Solution Architect
Designing Your Site Solution Architecture
Understanding Common Solution Patterns and Design Options
Designing Your Custom Business Solutions
Documenting Your Solution Architecture and Design
Summary
Chapter 16: Designing Your Infrastructure Architecture
Designing Your Data Center Services
Performing a Network Impact Assessment
Estimating Your Farm’s Capacity and Performance Requirements
Designing Your Logical and Physical Architecture
Planning Your Application Infrastructure Technologies
Planning Your Configuration Management
Planning Your Operations Management
Summary
Chapter 17: Designing Your Storage Layer
Determining Business and Application Requirements
Planning Storage Configurations
Planning Storage Scalability
Planning Data Protection
SQL Server Planning
Database Layout Planning
Windows Server 2008 R2
Summary
Chapter 18: Developing, Testing, and Deploying Your SharePoint 2010 Solution
Deciding on What Architectural Approach to Use
Application Life Cycle Management in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Environments and Deployment Flow between Environments
Planning Portal Life Cycle and Management
Handling Development Teams
Summary
Chapter 19: Designing Your Authentication and Authorization Model
Claims in SharePoint Server 2010
Classic-mode Authentication in SharePoint 2010
Planning for Claims
Summary
Chapter 20: Defining Your Governance Model and Approach
Understanding Governance
Understanding Governance Models
Understanding Governance Principles
Understanding Governance Guidelines
Understanding Roles
Best Practices
Summary
Chapter 21: Defining Your Business Continuity Management Plan
Defining Your Business Continuity Requirements
Designing Your Backup and Recovery Strategy
Designing Your Availability Strategy
Designing Your Disaster Recovery Strategy
Documentation
Best Practices
Summary
Chapter 22: Designing For Cloud-Based Solutions and Multi-Tenancy Services
Cloud-Based Solutions
SharePoint On Premise
Summary
Chapter 23: Designing Virtualized Deployments
Understanding Virtualization
On-Premise VM Technologies
Cloud-Based VM Hosting Technologies
Understanding the SharePoint 2010 Roles You Can Virtualize
Looking at a Recommended Deployment Approach
An Example Deployment Scenario
Best Practices
Summary
Part IV: Real-World Service Design Considerations
Chapter 24: Intranet and Internet Publishing Services
SharePoint 2010 Publishing Features
Branding Publishing Sites
Managing Publishing Content
Planning Site Navigation
Deploying Publishing Sites
Summary
Chapter 25: Corporate Information Services
Designing Corporate Information Services
Working with Documents
Document Management in the Enterprise
SharePoint Software Boundaries
Summary
Chapter 26: Business Collaboration Services
Introducing Business Collaboration Features
Key Business Challenges
Common Business Scenarios
Key Architectural Considerations
Summary
Chapter 27: Enterprise Search Services
Getting to Know SharePoint 2010 Search Features
Getting to Know FAST Search for SharePoint Features
Understanding the SharePoint 2010 Search Architecture
Understanding Content Sources
Understanding Federation
Key Business Challenges with Enterprise Search
Search User Experience
Planning for Scale and Redundancy
Optimizing Search Performance
Optimizing Search Relevancy
Summary
Chapter 28: Individual and Social Networking Features
Personalization
Colleagues, Organizations, and Memberships
Blogs and Wikis
Tagging, Ratings, and Notes
Key Business Challenges
Advanced Business Scenarios
Key Architectural Considerations
Recommended Approach
Good Practices
Summary
Chapter 29: Business Connectivity Services
Introducing Business Connectivity Services
Why You Should Care About BCS
Molding Your BCS Solutions
Building BCS Solutions Using SharePoint Designer
Building BCS Solutions Using Visual Studio
Administrating the BCS Service Application
Security
Summary
Chapter 30: Business Intelligence Services
Understanding Business Intelligence
Understanding Information Storage and Retrieval
Affinities between a SharePoint List and Database
Structured Versus Unstructured Data
Getting Started with Business Intelligence
Using Excel Services
Using PowerPivot for Excel
Using PowerPivot for SharePoint
Using PerformancePoint Services
Using Reporting Services
Using Visio Services
Using Access Services
Other Solutions to Retrieve Data
Security
Summary
Chapter 31: Forms Services and Workflow
What Is a Form?
What Is a Workflow?
Using Forms and Workflow Together
Determining if InfoPath Is the Right Choice
Understanding Browser-Based Forms
Understanding InfoPath XSN and XML Files
Using InfoPath Forms in SharePoint
Working with Data in InfoPath
InfoPath Deployment
Workflow in SharePoint 2010
Workflow Tasks
Workflow History
Sequential Workflow Versus State Machine Workflow
Workflow Tools
Developing, Configuring, or Reusing Workflows
Summary
Chapter 32: Records Management Services
Understanding Records Management
Using a File Plan
Introducing SharePoint Records Management Features
Key Business Challenges
Key SharePoint Architectural Considerations
Common Business Scenarios
Recommended Approach
Best Practices
Summary
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