Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint Foundation 2010 in 24 Hours

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, yours"ll learn how to create great websites, collaboration and content management applications, and social solutions with SharePoint Foundation 2010! Using this bookrs"s straightforward, step-by-step approach, yours"ll learn how to build, administer, and secure solutions with the free version of SharePoint 2010. One step at a time, yours"ll master libraries, lists, and other powerful features; create blogs and wikis; provide advanced search and workflow; integrate SharePoint with Office; and much more. Each lesson builds on what yours"ve already learned, helping you get the job done fast-and get it done right! Step-by-step instructionscarefully walk you through the most common SharePoint Foundation 2010 tasks. Quizzesat the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. By the Waynotes present interesting information related to the discussion. Did You Know?tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Watch Out!cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them. Learn how tohellip; Install SharePoint Foundation 2010 and use the Administration Site Add users, provide user access rights, and enforce authentication Plan the most effective structure for your site Make the most of libraries, lists, views, folders, Web parts, and other powerful features Construct and work with wikis, blogs, and other social features Provide fast, efficient search with Microsoft Search Server 2010 Express Integrate either Office 2007 or Office 2010 with SharePoint Foundation Share OneNote notebooks, Access tables, Outlook calendars and contacts, and more Instantly create useful reports based on one or more SharePoint lists Create efficient workflows with SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 Add even more functionality to your sites and applications

Mike Walsh was one of the first SharePoint MVPs and has been a SharePoint MVP every year since 2002. A leading voice in SharePoint newsgroups and forums, he maintains a popular SharePoint site at http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com. Mike has been an early beta tester for the last several versions of SharePoint.

Introduction  1

Part I: The Basics

HOUR 1 Introducing SharePoint Foundation 2010  9

HOUR 2 Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010  17

HOUR 3 Adding Users and Giving Them Rights  29

HOUR 4 Using the Administration Site  45

HOUR 5 Planning a Site’s Structure  61

HOUR 6 Using Libraries and Lists   75

HOUR 7 Creating and Using Libraries   89

HOUR 8 Creating and Using Views and Folders  103

HOUR 9 Looking at List Types and the Included Web Parts  119

HOUR 10 Learning About Authentication and Access Rights  135

HOUR 11 Using What We’ve Learned So Far in a Site  151

HOUR 12 Using Wikis and Blogs  169

Part II: Search

HOUR 13 Using SPF 2010 Search and Installing Search Server 2010 Express  191

HOUR 14 Improving Searches  205

Part III: Working with Office Products

HOUR 15 Using Different Versions of the Main Office Products with SPF 2010  223

HOUR 16 Using Outlook 2010 with SPF 2010  241

HOUR 17 Sharing OneNote 2010 or OneNote 2007 Notebooks with SPF 2010  257

HOUR 18 Sharing Access 2010 Tables with SPF 2010   273

HOUR 19 Producing a Report from a Single SPF 2010 List  291

HOUR 20 Creating a Report from Several SPF 2010 Lists   307

Part IV: Workflow and SPD 2010

HOUR 21 Creating Workflows in SPF 2010  329

HOUR 22 Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Create Workflows  345

HOUR 23 Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Solve Common User Requests  361

Part V: Other Available Functions and Methods

HOUR 24 Learning to Add Even More Functionality to Your SPF 2010 System  381

Index  397