Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why We Wrote This Book; Best Practices versus Design; Who This Book Is For?; How This Book Is Organized; What This Book is Not; System Requirements; How You Can Contact Us; Support for This Book; Part I: Planning and Designing; Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007; Windows SharePoint Services 3.0; SharePoint Server 2007 Standard; SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise; SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet Sites; How Can SharePoint Server Help My Organization?; Summary; Chapter 2: Change, Power, and Conflict; Understanding Change in a Corporate Environment; Understanding Power Dynamics and Change; Understanding Specific Changes that SharePoint Introduces; Strong Governance and Potential Conflicts; Summary; Chapter 3: SharePoint Server 2007 Design Life Cycle; Overview of Frameworks that Can Be Used with SharePoint Server 2007; Define Stakeholders; Training; Gathering Requirements; Major Milestone 1: Design Phase; Major Milestone 2: Build Readiness; Major Milestone 3: Operational Readiness; Operating and Supporting; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 4: Defining Business Requirements; Requirements; Bridging the Gap Between Business Need and Technology Solution; Characteristics of Good Requirements; Implementing Requirements Traceability and a Requirements Matrix; How Many Requirements per Project?; Using Requirements to Solve Problems; Negotiating Service Level Agreements; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 5: SharePoint Server 2007 and Governance; Governance Best Practices; Getting a Technology Governance Team Started; Create an Effective Governance Team Site; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 6: Project Plans for a SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment; Understanding Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment Plan; The Envisioning Stage; The Planning Stage; Deployment, Implementation, and Configuration Management; Post-Implementation Operations, Optimization, and Business Review; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 7: Developing an Information Architecture; Common Goals; Architecture Forethought; Information Architecture Foundations; Information Arrangement; Information Context; User Interface and Branding; Usability and Acceptance; Emergent Capability; Information Architecture Building Blocks; Summary; Additional Resources; Part II: Building; Chapter 8: Document Management; What Is a Document?; What Is Document Management?; The Document Life Cycle; Should SharePoint Replace File Servers?; Other Best Practices Concerning Documents and Document Libraries; Working with the SharePoint Server 2007 DoD 5015.2 Add-On Pack; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 9: Enterprise Content Management; What Is Enterprise Content Management?; SharePoint ECM Technologies; SharePoint ECM Best Practices; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 10: Business Processes and Workflows; Identifying Workflow Candidates; Overview of Out-of-the-box Workflows; Publishing Workflows; Workflow Deployment Considerations; The Other Side of the Coin: Code-free Custom Workflows; Custom Workflow Considerations; Workflow Deployment Options; Workflows and Client Applications; Security Considerations; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 11: Branding and Customization; Overview of SharePoint Branding; Native Support for Branding; Branding with SharePoint Designer 2007; Branding Using Visual Studio 2005; Hybrid Approaches: SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 12: Web Parts, Features, and Solutions Management; Content and Infrastructure; Developer’s Role in SharePoint; Environments; Web Parts; Features; Solutions; Sample Web Part (Available Online); Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 13: Creating and Managing Publishing Sites; Publishing Infrastructure and Publishing Features; Portals and Publishing; Leveraging Publishing Sites; Choosing a Content Deployment Strategy; Managing Master and Layout Pages; Search Considerations for Public Sites; Supporting Localization; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 14: Understanding and Implementing Microsoft Search Server 2008; Search Server 2008 Features and Benefits; Understanding OpenSearch Standards; Installing Search Server 2008; Building Federated Location Definition Files and Integrating Search Server 2008 with Live Search; Best Practices for Implementing Search Server 2008; Summary; Additional Resources; PPPPPPart III: Deploying; Chapter 15: Implementing an Optimal Search and Findability Topology; Findability: What Is It and Why Is It Important to You?; Business Requirements and Search; Designing Crawl and Query Topologies; Findability Tools in SharePoint Server 2007; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 16: Leveraging Shared Services Providers; What Shared Services Are Provided with SharePoint Server 2007?; Intra-Farm versus Inter-Farm Shared Services; Designing Shared Services; Geographically Dispersed Deployments; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 17: Optimizing Information Security; Confidentiality; Integrity; Authenticity; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 18: Business Intelligence and Reporting; The Microsoft BI Big Picture; BI Integration with SharePoint Server 2007; Core BI Features in SharePoint and Office; Business Data Catalog; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 19: Extending Business Intelligence; Reporting Services; Integrating Reporting Services with SharePoint; Other Reporting Services Features Within SharePoint; Security Considerations; Creating, Publishing, and Deploying Reports to SharePoint Sites; Distributed Server Environment Consideration; PerformancePoint Server 2007; Working with Dashboard Designer; Security and Dashboard Designer; Deploying Dashboards to SharePoint Sites; Interacting with Dashboards Within SharePoint Sites; Saving a Dashboard Designer Workspace; Business Intelligence Use Case Scenarios; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 20: Intranet, Extranet, and Internet Scenarios; Web Applications: The Foundation; Scenarios; Summary; Additional Resources; Part IV: Operating; Chapter 21: Data Protection, Recovery, and Availability; Planning for Recovery; Designing for High Availability; Backup and Restore Strategies; Recovering Content; Recovering from Disasters; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 22: Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007; Overview of the Four Migration Methods; Pre-upgrade Tasks; Upgrading Customizations; Post-upgrade Tasks; Upgrading Shared Services; Combining Migration Methods; Upgrading Between Active Directory Forests; When to Use the Different Upgrade Methods; Summary; Additional Resources; Chapter 23: Capacity Planning and Performance Monitoring; Capacity Planning; Performance Monitoring; Summary; Additional Resources; Glossary; Appendix : About the Authors; Principal Authors; Co-Author; Contributing Authors; Content Contributors; Appendix : Additional Resources for IT Professionals from Microsoft Press; Windows Server; Windows Client; SQL Server 2005; Exchange Server 2007; Scripting; Related Titles; Appendix : More Great Resources for IT Professionals from Microsoft Press; Administrator’s Pocket Consultant; Administrator’s Companion; Resource Kit; Self-Paced Training Kit;