Take your Microsoft SharePoint solutions to the cloud—and gain scalability and high availability while helping to lower your operational costs. Led by a SharePoint expert, you'll learn hands-on how to customize and maintain SharePoint cloud solutions. You also get practical advice for migrating business solutions either to Microsoft SharePoint Online or to a private cloud, using your own data center. This is an ideal guide for IT professionals, architects, and decision makers.
Extend the reach of your SharePoint solutions—in the cloud
Evaluate the ROI for using a public, private, or hybrid cloud solution
Build public cloud solutions on either a shared or dedicated server
Use Microsoft Office 365 for email, messaging, document authoring, and more
Customize SharePoint Online using sandboxed solutions and SharePoint Designer
Control identity management and authentication with Windows PowerShell®
Deploy SharePoint in a private cloud with Hyper-V® and Microsoft System Center
Improve private cloud automation, availability, and data isolation with multi-tenancy
Introducing SharePoint in the Cloud
Chapter 1 Introducing Microsoft SharePoint Online
What Is the Cloud?
Why Deploy to the Cloud?
SharePoint in the Cloud
SharePoint Online Features Overview
Configuring and Customizing SharePoint Online
User Management and Security in SharePoint Online
Migrating from On-Premises to SharePoint Online
Getting Around in SharePoint Online
Chapter 2 Office 365 Feature Overview
Office 365 Overview
Four Products in One
Licensing and Purchasing Office 365
Administering Office 365
Chapter 3 Planning for SharePoint Online
Planning SharePoint Online Core Capabilities
Planning Your Information Architecture
Planning User Management and Security
Planning Customizations
Planning User Training
Planning Ongoing Maintenance and Governance
Deploying SharePoint in the Public Cloud
Chapter 4 Administering SharePoint Online
Managing Site Collections
Configuring InfoPath Forms Services
Configuring User Profiles
Configuring the Managed Metadata Term Store
Chapter 5 Identity Management and Authentication
Identity Management Technologies and Techniques
Configuring Identity Federation and Synchronization
Managing Identities with Remote PowerShell
Chapter 6 Migrating to SharePoint Online
Migration Scenarios
Migration Techniques
Supported Items and Migration Gotchas
Planning for Migration Downtime
Chapter 7 Introduction to Customizing and Developing in SharePoint Online
Developing Against the Cloud vs. On-Premises
Customization Tools
Introduction to Sandboxed Solutions
Building and Deploying a Sandboxed Web Part
Deploying Full-Trust Code in SharePoint Online Dedicated
Introduction to the Client Object Model
SharePoint Online Integration with Azure
Deploying SharePoint in the Private Cloud
Chapter 8 Introduction to Creating a Private Cloud
Private Cloud Benefits
How Do You Build a Private Cloud?
Preparing for Virtualization with Hyper-V
Automating SharePoint in a Private Cloud Using Opalis
Chapter 9 Introducing Multitenancy in SharePoint 2010
Why Multitenancy for On-Premises IT?
Options for Tenant Sites in SharePoint
Multitenancy Architecture
Service Application Partitioning
Site Subscriptions
Tenant Administration
Host Header Site Collections
Feature Packs
Ten Easy Steps to Tenant-Aware SharePoint
Chapter 10 Configuring Tenant-Aware Service Applications
Introduction to Service Applications
Step 1: Configuring the Site Subscription Service
Step 2: Creating Tenant-Aware Service Applications
Chapter 11 Configuring Tenant-Aware Site Collections
Step 3: Creating Feature Packs
Step 4: Creating a New Site Subscription
Step 5: Assigning a Feature Pack to a Tenant
Step 6: Filtering the People Picker to an Active Directory Organizational Unit
Step 7: Configuring Tenant-Aware Managed Paths
Step 8: Creating Tenant Site Collections
Step 9: Associating the Tenant to the User Profile Service Application
Step 10: Configuring a Content Type Hub
Appendix Server, Online SharePoint, and Online Dedicated Compared
SharePoint Online Capacities
Services and Service Applications in SharePoint Online
Phil Wicklund is a frequent blogger, speaker, and author around SharePoint products and technologies. He started working with SharePoint back in 2003 and has since architected and administered many dozens of corporate SharePoint environments. He started as a SharePoint development instructor for Mindsharp, and has since moved into consulting at RBA Consulting, where he shares real-world insights and in-depth best practices with his clients of many varieties.
Comments about oreilly Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Deploying Cloud-Based Solutions:
The book is divided into three parts: the first part talks about what 'the cloud' is and how SharePoint fits into it (basically, SharePoint Online as part of Office 365), and provides some information about its capabilities. Phil also dedicates a chapter to planning for SharePoint Online, including the Information Architecture, security, customisations, and training. In my opinion, extremely important in every SharePoint related activity.
The second part of the book, titled Deploying SharePoint in the Public Cloud, goes a bit more into detail how to start using and managing SharePoint Online. The most interesting chapter here is Chapter 6: Migrating to SharePoint Online, in which Phil lists several approaches of how you can move your content from its existing location (with a major focus on on-premise SharePoint) to SharePoint Online.
Lastly, the third part of the book talks about SharePoint in the Private Cloud. How can you set up SharePoint in your company inside your own Private Cloud, including all the relevant automation. Topics here include virtualisation with Hyper-V, a very good discussion about multitenancy in SharePoint, and how to configure tenant-aware service applications and site applications. While I initially thought that this part of the book is the least interesting to me, it gave me a much better idea of how Microsoft has (possibly) set up and configured Office 365, and why some functionality is not available at the moment (e.g. FAST Search).
What I missed a bit in the book was a better analysis of when and why it makes sense to use cloud technology. While there is a section in the first part of the book that covers this topic, I felt that it was a bit too short, and more information could have been provided. Another thing that confused me occasionally in the first and second part of the book was that there was not always a clear differentiation between SharePoint Online Standard (which you get as part of the 'regular' Office 365) and SharePoint Online Dedicated (which you have to contact MS for). While most of the time Phil notes what is available in or applicable to each of these two and what isn't, I found myself thinking sometimes "this isn't possible in Office 365", only to realise that Phil was referring to the Dedicated version.
Overall, however, I would say that it's a quite good book for anyone interested in learning more about cloud-based SharePoint, providing very useful information for any medium or large sized organisation.
