The New Edge in Knowledge - How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business

Microsoft® SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Michael Noel

Colin Spence

Using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, organizations can bring together, utilize, and collaborate with information from virtually any source. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed is the most complete, practical resource for all administrators, managers, architects, users, and power users who want to make the most of this powerful platform.

Drawing on their experience implementing SharePoint solutions in hundreds of organizations, Michael Noel and Colin Spence cover all facets of succeeding with SharePoint: planning, deployment, migration, scalability, administration, security, Microsoft Office integration, workflow and dashboard development, and more.

Noel and Spence illuminate the newest SharePoint innovations, from new social networking features to improved search, helping you make the most of both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. Using easy-to-understand, step-by-step examples, the authors help you streamline administration, optimize performance, control cost, and implement high-value solutions for collaboration, document management, and business intelligence.

• Architect and implement SharePoint 2010, and migrate from legacy SharePoint servers
• Perform advanced installations that maximize scalability
• Monitor, back up, and restore SharePoint environments
• Maintain the SQL Server databases on which SharePoint 2010 relies
• Systematically improve edge, transport, and content security
• Deploy SharePoint in extranets and alternative authentication scenarios
• Create highly efficient virtualized SharePoint 2010 farms
• Customize and manage libraries and lists for your specific requirements
• Design and manage pages and sites for knowledge workers
• Effectively manage metadata and content types
• Integrate content using Office Web Apps and Excel, Access, and Visio Graphics Services
• Create both out-of-the-box and customized SharePoint workflows
• Develop custom solutions with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010
• Create BI solutions with PerformancePoint and Business Connectivity Services
• Govern your SharePoint ecosystem for maximum value

Michael Noel, MS-MVP, MCITP, is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well-known public speaker on a wide range of IT topics. He is the author of 17 books, including Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, and Microsoft Forefront Unleashed. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Colin Spence, MCP, MCTS SharePoint, has worked with SharePoint technologies for nearly a decade, helping hundreds of clients architect, implement, and manage customized SharePoint solutions. He speaks, publishes, and blogs regularly on SharePoint technologies. Noel and Spence are partners at Convergent Computing, a leading Microsoft partner in the San Francisco Bay area, and co-authors of SharePoint 2007 Unleashed.

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Category: Microsoft Office 2010

Covers: Microsoft SharePoint 2010

User Level: Intermediate–Advanced

An indispensable guide that shows companies how to treat data as a strategic asset

Organizations set their business strategy and direction based on information that is available to executives. The Data Asset provides guidance for not only building the business case for data quality and data governance, but also for developing methodologies and processes that will enable your organization to better treat its data as a strategic asset.

Part of Wiley's SAS Business Series, this book looks at Business Case Building; Maturity Model and Organization Capabilities; 7-Step Programmatic Approach for Success; and Technologies Required for Effective Data Quality and Data Governance and, within these areas, covers

• Risk mitigation
• Cost control
• Revenue optimization
• Undisciplined and reactive organizations
• Proactive organizations
• Analysis, improvement, and control technology

The best-practice guide to managing IT infrastructures–now fully updated!

IT Systems Management is an up-to-the-minute guide to maintaining stable, responsive IT production environments. Top IT systems management expert Rich Schiesser illuminates
both the theoretical and practical aspects of systems management, using methods and examples drawn from decades of experience leading and consulting with the world’s most complex enterprise IT organizations.

This thoroughly updated edition covers every systems management discipline  and all elements of success: people, process, and technology. Schiesser shows how to apply best-practice system management throughout all IT infrastructure environments, from mainframe data centers to web-enabled systems, client/server and mid-range platforms to wireless and VoIP networks. 

Schiesser systematically addresses today’s most crucial issues, as well as emerging trends that will transform IT systems management. You’ll find an entirely new chapter on using IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) effectively, plus new coverage ranging from managing outsourced functions to efficiently delivering “ultra-speed” Internet connections. This edition includes more real-life examples throughout, and new interactive problems designed to give IT professionals even deeper insight. Coverage includes:

•  Implementing bullet-proof processes in areas ranging from change management to production acceptance, capacity planning to storage

•  Optimizing the “people” components of IT service delivery, from customer service to executive support

•  Using technology to manage systems more efficiently and effectively

•  Systematically managing performance, availability, and business continuity

•  Reducing the cost and complexity of IT facilities management

•  Taking a more strategic approach to security

Rich Schiesser founded and owns RWS Enterprises, Inc., a consultancy that specializes in designing and implementing world-class IT infrastructures. His client list has included The Weather Channel, Amazon.com, and DIRECTV. He has led major IT infrastructure organizations at Hughes Aircraft, the City of Los Angeles, and Twentieth Century Fox. For nearly ten years, he managed the primary data center at Northrop Grumman, one of the world’s most advanced computer facilities. A former University of Phoenix faculty member, he has taught IT management at UCLA and California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA).

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The question for business leaders is simple: How can innovation leaders and intrapreneurs freely operate in a corporation that wants to keep things the way they are? The answer is also simple…Read The Open Innovation Revolution.

This practical guide reveals that, without the right people to drive innovation processes, your odds of success shrink dramatically. And as open innovation becomes the norm, developing the right people skills—networking, communicating with stakeholders, building your personal brand and the ability to sell ideas—is essential for your innovation leaders and intrapreneurs.

Starting with a foreword from world-changing innovator and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki, The Open Innovation Revolution looks closely at:

• Open innovation—the visionary model that more and more companies are adopting
• Innovation leaders and intrapreneurs—and the essential elements that must be put in place for these people to thrive
• The people-related roadblocks that can impede innovation and some ways these can be overcome
• The personal leadership skills you will need to develop as an innovation leader or intrapreneur

Looking at knowledge management in a holistic way, Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work puts the proper emphasis on non-technical issues. As knowledge is deeply connected to humans, the author moves away from the often overused and therefore burned-out term "knowledge management" to the better-suited term "knowledge flow management."

• Provides lessons learned and case studies from real experience
• Discusses key knowledge flow components, success factors and traps, and where to start

Play Your Best Hand also covers:

• The four employee talent types
• Key challenges of managing knowledge workers-and recommended solutions
• The five talent-based leadership principles and how to apply them