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What differentiates good organizations from bad? The good ones are those that take advantage of the data they already have and use the feedback that business intelligence gives them to improve their processes. SharePoint is now the delivery platform of choice for Microsoft’s business intelligence products, and in this book we reveal how to get the most from developing business intelligence solutions on SharePoint 2010. To understand the various business intelligence offerings in SharePoint 2010, you need to understand the core SQL Server business intelligence concepts, and the first part of the book presents a comprehensive tutorial on those fundamentals. Pro SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Solutions then focuses on specific SharePoint business intelligence investments including: Visio Services Excel Services SQL Server Reporting Services Business Connectivity Services PerformancePoint Services All of this is done using a practical, hands-on format, with enough examples to empower you to use these products in your real-life projects. As compelling as SharePoint and SQL Server business intelligence are together, the challenge always has been finding people who understand both SharePoint and SQL Server well enough to deliver such business intelligence solutions. With this book in hand, you become part of that select group.

Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices is a valuable compendium of best practices, tips, and secrets straight from the most knowledgeable SharePoint gurus in the industry. Learn from the experts as you dive into topics like multitenancy, solution deployment, business intelligence, and administration. Our team of carefully chosen contributors, most with Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation bestowed upon them, shares with you the secrets and practices that have brought them success in a wide variety of SharePoint scenarios. Each contributor is passionate about the power of SharePoint and wants to help you leverage the capabilities of the platform in your business - but in the proper way. Go beyond procedures and manuals, and benefit from hundreds of years of combined experience, which the authors of Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices provide in these pages. Learn from the masters and take control of SharePoint 2010 like you never have before with Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices! What you'll learn * How to design and architect public-facing SharePoint sites * Best practices for building business applications with SharePoint Foundation 2010 * How to bridge the Office-SharePoint gap that exists in many organizations * Best practices around solution deployment in SharePoint 2010 Who this book is for Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices is a book geared toward professional (that is, intermediate- to advanced-level) solution developers, administrators, and architects. Each chapter will stand alone, so all audiences will find valuable advice and reference within the text. Readers should be familiar with SharePoint in their respective capacities and have more than a beginner-level understanding of its features and capabilities. Table of Contents * Workflows * Bridging the Office-SharePoint Gap * Leveraging Content Types * Automating Document Assembly * Practical Document Management with SharePoint 2010 * Forms Services and InfoPath * The SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model * Extending SharePoint Using Event Receivers * Touch Points: Integrating SharePoint 2010 and ASP.N ET * Client-Side Programming * SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Development * SharePoint Solution Deployment * Business Intelligence * Business Connectivity Services * Designing Mashups with Excel and Visio * Tips, Tricks, and Traps * PerformancePoint Services * Public-Facing SharePoint Sites * Claims-Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010

Learn from Pro SharePoint Migration on how to migrate your existing farm - infrastructure, upgrade approaches, code, branding, and impact of new features of SharePoint 2010 - in a strategic way that results in smooth transition. Noted author Sahil Malik, with Srini Sistla, work together to provide detailed strategies and tools to assess, plan and execute a SharePoint 2010 migration that is efficient and cost-effective - and that doesn't use expensive third-party software. The "clean slate" approach embraced by this book, coupled with flexible tools designed by Microsoft and the author, will provide you with the statistics, charts, and diagrams necessary to perform a meaningful assessment of your current SharePoint 2007 environment. You'll then be able to plan the lowest-cost, least-hassle way to migrate your current environment, and its applications and data, to SharePoint 2010, and how to map your existing use of SharePoint 2007 to the new features and enhancements in SharePoint 2010. Pro SharePoint Migration will help you: * Gain a better understanding of high level comparison and changes you need to learn between the two versions * To migrate or not? Learn about new functionality that might replace your existing custom built code or non-code based solutions. * Build a strong toolset to create, update, administer, and migrate 90% of the most commonly used SharePoint objects * Grasp the intricacies of the SharePoint 2010 application programming interface (API) * Become a better SharePoint 2010 administrator in your newly-migrated environment What you'll learn * A high level comparison of MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010, asking what's new * Available supported and unsupported upgrade choices * Migration strategies to minimize disruption * Strategies for migrating old settings to new * Changes to security model, lists, libraries, and more * Visual changes, the impact on branding, and how to address overall branding artifacts * Statistics, monitoring and usage analysis of existing and new farms * Learn about ribbon changes and customizations * A discussion of being a savvy business user developer, using SharePoint designer 2010 and InfoPath 2010 * Overview of new changes and enhancements to enterprise content management features * Changes to SharePoint APIs Who this book is for Pro SharePoint Migration is for intermediate to advanced SharePoint administrators, and developers who are interested in migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without third-party software.