Miranda Salley is the Vice President of EPC Group and she manages the full range of EPC Group’s technology consulting and solutions offerings. Miranda also oversees EPC Group’s operations and marketing teams and tailors EPC Group’s go-to-market strategies. She works with the full range of Microsoft technologies, including EPC Group’s hybrid cloud advisory practice, to ensure that the organization continues to stay on the leading edge of consulting. Miranda has over 14 years of experience in information technology, marketing, sales, and communications management. For the past 10 years, Miranda has served as a volunteer technology teacher, and a life skills and career mentor, as well as a leading board member for various Boys & Girls clubs and not-for-profits, allowing her to further her passion for technology and community responsibility.

Timothy Calunod has been an active and involved SharePoint enthusiast since SharePoint’s first release. He has worked with every version of SharePoint in terms of design, implementation, architecture, administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and solution creation to meet the unique needs of SharePoint deployments in various organizations and industries. Timothy has worked on hundreds of initiatives and is able to adapt to the technology requirements of EPC Group’s clients, whether it be for a business intelligence initiative, for a hybrid and federated SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 initiative, or to develop a governance and architecture strategy for a SharePoint implementation to support more than 250,000 users.

Joseph Jorden is a leading industry expert in designing and implementing various complex technical solutions for clients both large and small. Joe’s primary field of expertise is in custom software development for EPC Group’s clients, focusing on SharePoint 2013 as well as all areas of custom .NET application development including application architecture, custom workflow development, SharePoint development and administration, SQL Server development and administration, database design, and security. Joe is also the author of numerous technical books on SQL Server, SQL Reporting Services, and business intelligence.

Andrew Christen has over 11 years of experience in developing, designing, coding, and testing applications using C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 development, C++, BizTalk, and multiple other scripting languages. Andrew’s industry-leading architecture skills that he provides to EPC Group’s clients expand beyond SharePoint development into seamless integration of other line-of-business (LOB) systems, C#/ASP.NET financial and inventory systems, custom .NET applications, and responsive web design, as well as architecting and designing web services using SOAP and XML. Andrew has extensive experience in SQL Server 2012 business intelligence, as well as migration initiatives from non-SharePoint systems into new SharePoint 2013 environments.

Daniel Galant has focused on educating clients on the latest SharePoint 2013 technologies, as well as architecting the overall design and implementation of Microsoft solutions for EPC Group clients both large and small. Daniel’s experience includes SharePoint system design, implementation, branding, and administration, as well as information architecture design and analysis. Over the past 15-plus years, Daniel’s expertise has also included Active Directory migration and consolidation, Exchange architecture deployment and administration, and network architecture and security. Daniel’s background in training helps him to convey difficult and often misunderstood technical topics in an easily relatable manner, and he has twice been awarded Microsoft MVP status.

Part I: Overview and Initial Technology Introduction

1. Introducing SharePoint 2013

2. Introducing a Best-Practices Approach to a SharePoint 2013 Implementation

Part II. End-User Features and Experiences of SharePoint 2013
3. Using the New Built-In Features of SharePoint 2013 (Both Server and Foundation)
4. Using SharePoint 2013 with Microsoft Office 2013

Part III. Creating, Designing, and Configuring Sites, and SharePoint 2013s Information Architecture
5. Creating SharePoint Sites, Communities, and Pages
6. Translating Business and Functional Requirements to Design Lists, Libraries, and Pages

Part IV. Creating, Designing, and Managing Sites, and Working with SharePoint Designer 2013 

7. What's New With SharePoint Designer 2013

8. Creating and Formatting Web Part Pages

9. Creating and Modifying Basic Site Features

10. Branding and Design in SharePoint 2013

11. Creating External Data Sources in SharePoint 2013

12. Utilizing SharePoint 2013 Web Parts

12A. Governing Site Content Within Your Enterprise

Part VII. Beginning SharePoint Web Part, Workflows, UI, and Solution Development

19. Beginning SharePoint Web Part, Workflows, UI, and Solution Development

Part VIII. The SharePoint Corporate Culture Invasion

20. Corporate Culture -- The View From Top to Bottom

21. Developing Training Materials

Part IX: SharePoint Applications in 2013 (App Store)

22. Introduction & Overview

Part X: In the Trenches Case Studies

Index to Troubleshooting Topics

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.