Get field-tested best practices and proven techniques for designing, deploying, operating, and optimizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part of the new Best Practices series for IT professionals from Microsoft Press®, this guide is written by leading SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint team members who’ve worked extensively with real-world deployments and customers. You’ll find out how to deploy the software, design your environment, manage content, analyze and view data, perform disaster recovery, monitor performance, and more. You'll learn how to create SharePoint sites that help your organization collaborate, take advantage of business insights, and improve productivity—with practical insights from the experts.

1. Planning and Designing

   1. Chapter 1 Introducing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

      1. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
      2. SharePoint Server 2007 Standard
      3. SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise
      4. SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet Sites
      5. How Can SharePoint Server Help My Organization?
      6. Summary

   2. Chapter 2 Change, Power, and Conflict

      1. Understanding Change in a Corporate Environment
      2. Understanding Power Dynamics and Change
      3. Understanding Specific Changes that SharePoint Introduces
      4. Strong Governance and Potential Conflicts
      5. Summary

   3. Chapter 3 SharePoint Server 2007 Design Life Cycle

      1. Overview of Frameworks that Can Be Used with SharePoint Server 2007
      2. Define Stakeholders
      3. Training
      4. Gathering Requirements
      5. Major Milestone 1: Design Phase
      6. Major Milestone 2: Build Readiness
      7. Major Milestone 3: Operational Readiness
      8. Operating and Supporting
      9. Summary
      10. Additional Resources

   4. Chapter 4 Defining Business Requirements

      1. Requirements
      2. Bridging the Gap Between Business Need and Technology Solution
      3. Characteristics of Good Requirements
      4. Implementing Requirements Traceability and a Requirements Matrix
      5. How Many Requirements per Project?
      6. Using Requirements to Solve Problems
      7. Negotiating Service Level Agreements
      8. Summary
      9. Additional Resources

   5. Chapter 5 SharePoint Server 2007 and Governance

      1. Governance Best Practices
      2. Getting a Technology Governance Team Started
      3. Create an Effective Governance Team Site
      4. Summary
      5. Additional Resources

   6. Chapter 6 Project Plans for a SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment

      1. Understanding Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment Plan
      2. The Envisioning Stage
      3. The Planning Stage
      4. Deployment, Implementation, and Configuration Management
      5. Post-Implementation Operations, Optimization, and Business Review
      6. Summary
      7. Additional Resources

   7. Chapter 7 Developing an Information Architecture

      1. Common Goals
      2. Architecture Forethought
      3. Information Architecture Foundations
      4. Information Arrangement
      5. Information Context
      6. User Interface and Branding
      7. Usability and Acceptance
      8. Emergent Capability
      9. Information Architecture Building Blocks
      10. Summary
      11. Additional Resources

2. Building

   1. Chapter 8 Document Management

      1. What Is a Document?
      2. What Is Document Management?
      3. The Document Life Cycle
      4. Should SharePoint Replace File Servers?
      5. Other Best Practices Concerning Documents and Document Libraries
      6. Working with the SharePoint Server 2007 DoD 5015.2 Add-On Pack
      7. Summary
      8. Additional Resources

   2. Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Management

      1. What Is Enterprise Content Management?
      2. SharePoint ECM Technologies
      3. SharePoint ECM Best Practices
      4. Summary
      5. Additional Resources

   3. Chapter 10 Business Processes and Workflows

      1. Identifying Workflow Candidates
      2. Overview of Out-of-the-box Workflows
      3. Publishing Workflows
      4. Workflow Deployment Considerations
      5. The Other Side of the Coin: Code-free Custom Workflows
      6. Custom Workflow Considerations
      7. Workflow Deployment Options
      8. Workflows and Client Applications
      9. Security Considerations
      10. Summary
      11. Additional Resources

   4. Chapter 11 Branding and Customization

      1. Overview of SharePoint Branding
      2. Native Support for Branding
      3. Branding with SharePoint Designer 2007
      4. Branding Using Visual Studio 2005
      5. Hybrid Approaches: SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
      6. Summary
      7. Additional Resources

   5. Chapter 12 Web Parts, Features, and Solutions Management

      1. Content and Infrastructure
      2. Developer’s Role in SharePoint
      3. Environments
      4. Web Parts
      5. Features
      6. Solutions
      7. Sample Web Part (Available Online)
      8. Summary
      9. Additional Resources

   6. Chapter 13 Creating and Managing Publishing Sites

      1. Publishing Infrastructure and Publishing Features
      2. Portals and Publishing
      3. Leveraging Publishing Sites
      4. Choosing a Content Deployment Strategy
      5. Managing Master and Layout Pages
      6. Search Considerations for Public Sites
      7. Supporting Localization
      8. Summary
      9. Additional Resources

   7. Chapter 14 Understanding and Implementing Microsoft Search Server 2008

      1. Search Server 2008 Features and Benefits
      2. Understanding OpenSearch Standards
      3. Installing Search Server 2008
      4. Building Federated Location Definition Files and Integrating Search Server 2008 with Live Search
      5. Best Practices for Implementing Search Server 2008
      6. Summary
      7. Additional Resources

3. Deploying

   1. Chapter 15 Implementing an Optimal Search and Findability Topology

      1. Findability: What Is It and Why Is It Important to You?
      2. Business Requirements and Search
      3. Designing Crawl and Query Topologies
      4. Findability Tools in SharePoint Server 2007
      5. Summary
      6. Additional Resources

   2. Chapter 16 Leveraging Shared Services Providers

      1. What Shared Services Are Provided with SharePoint Server 2007?
      2. Intra-Farm versus Inter-Farm Shared Services
      3. Designing Shared Services
      4. Geographically Dispersed Deployments
      5. Summary
      6. Additional Resources

   3. Chapter 17 Optimizing Information Security

      1. Confidentiality
      2. Integrity
      3. Authenticity
      4. Summary
      5. Additional Resources

   4. Chapter 18 Business Intelligence and Reporting

      1. The Microsoft BI Big Picture
      2. BI Integration with SharePoint Server 2007
      3. Core BI Features in SharePoint and Office
      4. Business Data Catalog
      5. Summary
      6. Additional Resources

   5. Chapter 19 Extending Business Intelligence

      1. Reporting Services
      2. Integrating Reporting Services with SharePoint
      3. Other Reporting Services Features Within SharePoint
      4. Security Considerations
      5. Creating, Publishing, and Deploying Reports to SharePoint Sites
      6. Distributed Server Environment Consideration
      7. PerformancePoint Server 2007
      8. Working with Dashboard Designer
      9. Security and Dashboard Designer
      10. Deploying Dashboards to SharePoint Sites
      11. Interacting with Dashboards Within SharePoint Sites
      12. Saving a Dashboard Designer Workspace
      13. Business Intelligence Use Case Scenarios
      14. Summary
      15. Additional Resources

   6. Chapter 20 Intranet, Extranet, and Internet Scenarios

      1. Web Applications: The Foundation
      2. Scenarios
      3. Summary
      4. Additional Resources

4. Operating

   1. Chapter 21 Data Protection, Recovery, and Availability

      1. Planning for Recovery
      2. Designing for High Availability
      3. Backup and Restore Strategies
      4. Recovering Content
      5. Recovering from Disasters
      6. Summary
      7. Additional Resources

   2. Chapter 22 Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007

      1. Overview of the Four Migration Methods
      2. Pre-upgrade Tasks
      3. Upgrading Customizations
      4. Post-upgrade Tasks
      5. Upgrading Shared Services
      6. Combining Migration Methods
      7. Upgrading Between Active Directory Forests
      8. When to Use the Different Upgrade Methods
      9. Summary
      10. Additional Resources

   3. Chapter 23 Capacity Planning and Performance Monitoring

      1. Capacity Planning
      2. Performance Monitoring
      3. Summary
      4. Additional Resources

1. Glossary

2. Appendix About the Authors

   1. Principal Authors

   2. Co-Author

   3. Contributing Authors

   4. Content Contributors

3. Appendix Additional Resources for IT Professionals from Microsoft Press

   1. Windows Server

   2. Windows Client

   3. SQL Server 2005

   4. Exchange Server 2007

   5. Scripting

   6. Related Titles

4. Appendix More Great Resources for IT Professionals from Microsoft Press

   1. Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

   2. Administrator’s Companion

   3. Resource Kit

   4. Self-Paced Training Kit