Microsoft SharePoint : building Office 2003 solutions, second edition / Scot P. Hillier.

By:

Hillier, Scot

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Apress, c2006 Edition: 2nd edISBN:

1590595750 (Paper)
9781590595756 (Paper)

Other title:

SharePoint

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

004.682 HIL

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	004.682 HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100354704

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This detailed second edition is Scot Hilliers follow-up to his market-leading SharePoint book. This version includes extensive updates to the previous edition, with emphasis on Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 and new approaches for using SharePoint to improve business efficiency. Also featured are new workflow solutions for SharePoint and BizTalk, and a new chapter on building a SharePoint solution from start to finish.

In this second edition, Hilliers' goal remains to provide intermediate-level guidance for those who want to design and deploy business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Hillier defines the business cases and scenarios for these technologies. He reviews the installation, configuration, and administration of business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies, and provides programming instruction, guidance, and examples for custom web parts and solutions.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

About the Author (p. xiii)
About the Technical Reviewer (p. xv)
Acknowledgments (p. xvii)
Introduction (p. xix)
Chapter 1 SharePoint Business Solutions (p. 1)
Segmenting Information Workers (p. 2)
Transactors (p. 2)
Professionals (p. 2)
Executives (p. 2)
Information Worker Challenges (p. 3)
System Complexity (p. 3)
The Information Challenge (p. 4)
The Process Challenge (p. 5)
The Collaboration Challenge (p. 5)
The Access Challenge (p. 6)
The Management Challenge (p. 6)
Understanding Business Scenarios (p. 7)
Augmenting Personal Productivity (p. 8)
Increasing Team Productivity (p. 9)
Supporting Remote Workers (p. 10)
Integrating with Partners and Customers (p. 10)
Analysis and Design Considerations (p. 11)
Documenting the Business Vision (p. 11)
Documenting Policies and Practices (p. 11)
Managing Change (p. 14)
Technical Considerations (p. 15)
Server Requirements (p. 15)
Client Requirements (p. 16)
Chapter 2 SharePoint Products and Technologies Overview (p. 17)
The Microsoft Office System (p. 17)
SharePoint and the Office System (p. 18)
Windows SharePoint Services (p. 19)
SharePoint Portal Server (p. 23)
Office 2003 (p. 24)
Installation Considerations (p. 25)
Stand-Alone Server (p. 27)
Small Server Farm (p. 27)
Medium Server Farm (p. 28)
Large Server Farm (p. 28)
Exercise 2-1 Creating a Development Environment (p. 29)
Prerequisites (p. 30)
Installing Windows Server 2003 on SPSController (p. 30)
Configuring Remote Desktop Administration on SPSController (p. 35)
Installing Windows Server 2003 on SPSPortal (p. 36)
Installing SQL Server 2000 on SPSPortal (p. 38)
Installing SPS on SPSPortal (p. 39)
Installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 on SPSPortal (p. 45)
Preparing SPSClient (p. 45)
Chapter 3 SharePoint Portal Server Basics (p. 47)
Understanding Portal Structure (p. 47)
Topics and Areas (p. 47)
WSS Team Sites (p. 51)
Self-Service Site Creation (p. 52)
Managing Users (p. 54)
Understanding Site Groups (p. 54)
Adding Users (p. 56)
Active Directory Account Creation Mode (p. 58)
Understanding User Profiles (p. 58)
Libraries (p. 60)
Document Libraries (p. 60)
Backward-Compatible Document Libraries (p. 64)
Form Libraries (p. 71)
Image Libraries (p. 73)
Lists (p. 73)
Announcements (p. 74)
Links (p. 74)
Contacts (p. 74)
Events (p. 75)
Tasks (p. 75)
Issues (p. 75)
Alerts (p. 75)
Discussions (p. 76)
Surveys (p. 77)
Searching (p. 78)
Exercise 3-1 SPS Basics (p. 78)
Cleanup (p. 78)
Designing the Area Structure (p. 80)
Adding Users (p. 81)
Creating the Site Structure (p. 81)
Migrating Documents (p. 82)
Chapter 4 SharePoint Content Development (p. 85)
Customizing Portal Content (p. 85)
Site Membership (p. 85)
Audiences (p. 89)
Understanding Web Parts (p. 91)
Templates (p. 96)
Personalization with My Site (p. 98)
Using My Site (p. 98)
Customizing My Site (p. 99)
Customizing with Microsoft FrontPage (p. 100)
Designing a New Page (p. 101)
Working with Data Sources (p. 104)
Working with Data Views (p. 106)
Creating and Consuming a Web Service in FrontPage (p. 107)
Using Web Components (p. 110)
Understanding Ghosted Pages (p. 110)
Exercise 4-1 Building an Executive Dashboard (p. 110)
Preparing Data Sources (p. 111)
Building the Team Site (p. 113)
Chapter 5 Building Web Parts (p. 119)
Web Part Basics (p. 119)
The WebPart Class (p. 120)
The Web Part Life Cycle (p. 121)
Web Part Properties (p. 123)
Rendering Web Parts (p. 125)
Deploying Web Parts (p. 128)
Understanding Strong Names (p. 129)
Building the Web Part (p. 131)
Code Access Security (p. 132)
Deployment Packages (p. 140)
Using Web Part Pages (p. 142)
Adding Web Parts to a Page (p. 142)
Debugging Web Parts (p. 143)
Exercise 5-1 Building a Simple Web Part (p. 144)
Creating the New Project (p. 144)
Modifying the Web Part Description File (p. 145)
Coding the Web Part (p. 146)
Deploying the Web Part (p. 148)
Exercise 5-2 Adding Child Controls to Web Parts (p. 150)
Creating the New Project (p. 150)
Modifying the Web Part Description File (p. 150)
Coding the Web Part (p. 151)
Deploying the Web Part (p. 156)
Chapter 6 The Microsoft Single Sign-On Service (p. 161)
Setting Up SSO (p. 161)
Setting the Security Policy (p. 167)
Using SSO in a Web Part (p. 168)
Programmatic Administration (p. 172)
Viewing the Audit Log (p. 175)
Exercise 6-1 Using Single Sign-On (p. 176)
Prerequisites (p. 176)
Creating the Application Definition (p. 176)
Entering the Credentials (p. 177)
Creating the Web Part (p. 177)
Deploying the Web Part (p. 182)
Assigning Permissions (p. 184)
Chapter 7 Advanced Web Part Development (p. 187)
Client-Side Web Parts (p. 187)
Using ActiveX Controls (p. 187)
Using Script Files (p. 188)
Building Connectable Web Parts (p. 189)
Connection Interfaces (p. 190)
Connection Life Cycle (p. 192)
Using Transformers (p. 199)
Custom Tool Parts (p. 200)
Default Tool Parts (p. 201)
Creating a Tool Part (p. 202)
Exercise 7-1 Using Terminal Services (p. 203)
Setting Up Terminal Services (p. 203)
Creating the New Web Page (p. 205)
Creating the Web Part (p. 207)
Deploying the Web Part (p. 208)
Exercise 7-2 Connectable Web Parts (p. 209)
Creating the Project (p. 209)
Implementing the Interfaces (p. 210)
Defining the Properties (p. 210)
Creating the Child Controls (p. 211)
Coding the Web Part Life Cycle (p. 212)
Using the Web Part (p. 219)
Exercise 7-3 Custom Tool Parts (p. 223)
Building the Basic Web Part (p. 223)
The Custom Tool Part (p. 224)
Using the Tool Part (p. 228)
Chapter 8 The Microsoft Office System (p. 229)
Office Integration (p. 229)
Document Management (p. 229)
Document Workspaces (p. 231)
Meeting Workspaces (p. 235)
Contacts and Calendars (p. 236)
Linked Lists (p. 236)
Developing Office Solutions (p. 238)
XML Support (p. 238)
Smart Documents (p. 241)
Research Library (p. 250)
Exercise 8-1 Building a Smart Document (p. 255)
Prerequisites (p. 256)
Setting Up the Project (p. 256)
Creating the XML Schema (p. 257)
Creating the Control Sets (p. 258)
Deploying the Smart Document (p. 266)
Exercise 8-2 Building a Research Service (p. 269)
Prerequisites (p. 269)
Starting the Project (p. 269)
Creating the Registration Response (p. 270)
Creating the Query Response (p. 272)
Using the Custom Service (p. 275)
Chapter 9 Programming SharePoint Services (p. 277)
Document Workflow (p. 277)
Capturing Events (p. 278)
Manipulating Documents (p. 282)
Accessing Portal Site and User Information (p. 287)
Accessing Site Collections (p. 287)
Accessing Lists and List Items (p. 288)
Accessing User Information (p. 289)
Understanding Data Caching (p. 290)
Using SharePoint Web Services (p. 292)
Exercise 9-1 Creating a Workflow Engine (p. 294)
Prerequisites (p. 294)
Building the Workflow Engine (p. 296)
Debugging the Solution (p. 302)
Exercise 9-2 Building a Site Collection Web Part (p. 303)
Prerequisites (p. 303)
Creating the Project (p. 304)
Defining the Properties (p. 306)
Creating the Child Controls (p. 306)
Creating the Helper Functions (p. 308)
Rendering the Web Part (p. 309)
Using the Web Part (p. 313)
Exercise 9-3 Building a Global Task Web Part (p. 313)
Prerequisites (p. 313)
Creating the Project (p. 314)
Creating the Child Controls (p. 316)
Changing the Identity (p. 317)
Rendering the Web Part (p. 318)
Using the Web Part (p. 321)
Exercise 9-4 Building an Identity Web Part (p. 322)
Creating the Project (p. 322)
Creating the Child Controls (p. 323)
Rendering the Web Part (p. 324)
Updating the User Information (p. 325)
Using the Web Part (p. 326)
Chapter 10 Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft Office System (p. 327)
The ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts Framework (p. 328)
Understanding the Web Parts Control Set (p. 328)
Building Custom Web Parts (p. 330)
Using Web Parts in a Page (p. 333)
Personalizing Web Parts (p. 335)
Using Visual Studio Tools for Office (p. 337)
Understanding Project Types (p. 337)
Adding Smart Tags to Documents (p. 339)
Exercise 10-1 Building a Web Part Page (p. 342)
Creating the New Project (p. 342)
Adding Site Membership (p. 342)
Creating the Logo Web Part (p. 343)
Creating the Text Web Part (p. 344)
Creating the Link Web Part (p. 344)
Creating the Business Card (p. 345)
Testing the Solution (p. 348)
Exercise 10-2 Building a Smart Document (p. 349)
Setting Up the Project (p. 349)
Creating the XML Schema (p. 350)
Creating the Invoice Template (p. 351)
Coding the Solution (p. 352)
Testing the Solution (p. 356)
Chapter 11 SharePoint Portal Server Administration (p. 357)
Back Up and Restore (p. 357)
Site Usage Analysis (p. 359)
Cleaning Up Unused Sites (p. 360)
Managing the Search Service (p. 362)
Defining External Content Sources (p. 363)
Scheduling Content Crawls (p. 363)
Creating Keywords (p. 364)
Enabling Online Presence (p. 365)
Managing Quotas and Locks (p. 366)
Exercise 11-1 Establishing Secure Access (p. 367)
Creating an Alias (p. 367)
Enabling Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (p. 369)
Index (p. 375)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Scot P. Hillier is an independent consultant focused on SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and .NET technologies. Scot has authored eight books on Microsoft technologies over the last 10 years, as well as numerous articles appearing in magazines and online. In addition to writing, Scot often presents nationally to analysts, decision makers, and developers. Scot is a former U.S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. When not working, Scot can be found at home with his family, playing games and taking walks. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com, and more information about his books is available at SharePointstuff.com.