The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users: 2010

The Most Comprehensive and Authoritative End User Guide for SharePoint 2010

This Guide for End Users is an outstanding tool to help your users maximize their utilization of SharePoint and build exciting and useful functionality.  Providing detailed examples, this guide will be the best resource for End Users to use in their pursuit of making SharePoint create real value in their organization.

Built on many years of SharePoint consulting and implementing in various organizations, this extensive guide was built to help organizations maximize their value from SharePoint.   Much of SharePoint’s potential rests on the usefulness of this tool for end users.   A guide of this detail provides end users with step by step instructions to easily build and maintain applications and sites.

Many industry experts and consultants claim this book to be a most valued resource for end users.  Help your organization realize the potential benefits of SharePoint by empowering your users with this helpful tool.

Check out samples from the Guide

• What is SharePoint? (Click for PDF)
• Choosing the Right Site Template (Click for PDF)
• Recover Items from the Recycle Bin (Click for PDF, Click  below for Video)

   

• Register a Blog in Word (Click for PDF, Click below for Video)

   

• Remove a Document Workspace (Click for PDF, Click below for Video)

   

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4 Background Chapters, 6 Decision Trees, 181 Helpful Tasks, and 558 pages

The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users:  2010 provides End Users with extensive detailed tasks to help build sites and pages.   With over 181 helpful tasks and 558 pages of examples, this guide will become a highly valued resource for your organization.

Introduction and Decision Trees

• What is SharePoint?
• What is a Content Type?
• How Do I Manage Versions?
• How Do I Get Notified of Changes?
• Choosing the Right Site Template
• Create a List or Library
• Organize with Folders or Metadata
• Create a Page or Site
• Create a Sub-Site or Site Collection
• Managing Permissions with Active Directory Groups or SharePoint Groups
• Create a Word form or an InfoPath Form

Collaborate on Projects

• Task: Create a Place for Teams to Work
• Task: Add New Users to a Team Site
• Task: Create a New Group
• Task: Assign Users to a Group
• Task: Remove Users from a Group
• Task: Edit Group Settings
• Task: Create a Group Work Site
• Task: Remove a Group

Discussing and Communicating Ideas

• Task: Create a Discussion Board
• Task: Start a New Discussion
• Task: Reply to a Discussion
• Task: Edit Discussions
• Task: Delete Discussions
• Task: Remove a Discussion Board
• Task: Create a Blog in SharePoint
• Task: Create a Blog Entry in SharePoint
• Task: Register a Blog in Word
• Task: Write a Blog Entry with Word

Conduct Effective Meetings

• Task: Create an Event
• Task: Create a Recurring Event
• Task: Create a Meeting Workspace
• Task: Create Meeting Objectives
• Task: Create a Meeting Agenda
• Task: Invite Attendees
• Task: Create a Things to Bring List
• Task: Create an Issue Tracking Page
• Task: Create a Decisions List

Work Together on Content

• Task: Create a Document Workspace in Office 2007
• Task: Create a Document Workspace in SharePoint
• Task: Connect to a Document Workspace in SharePoint Workspace
• Task: Open and Save Documents from Office 2010
• Task: Open and Save Documents from Office 2007
• Task: Open and Save Documents from SharePoint
• Task: Open and Save Documents from SharePoint Workspace
• Task: Add Document Collaborators in Office 2007
• Task: Changing Document Collaborators in Office 2007
• Task: Changing Document Permissions on SharePoint
• Task: Check Out a Document in Office 2010
• Task: Check Out a Document in Office 2007
• Task: Check Out Documents in SharePoint
• Task: Check Out Documents in SharePoint Workspace
• Task: Check In a Document in Office 2010
• Task: Check In a Document in Office 2007
• Task: Check In Documents in SharePoint
• Task: Check In Documents in SharePoint Workspace
• Task: Sync Documents in SharePoint Workspace
• Task: Edit SharePoint Workspace Synchronization Settings
• Task: Remove a Document Workspace
• Task: Create an Approval Workflow Association
• Task: Save a Site as a Template

Manage Lists

• Task: Create a Custom List
• Task: Import a Spreadsheet to Create a List
• Task: Create a New List Item
• Task: Add New List Columns
• Task: Editing Existing List Columns
• Task: Delete List Columns
• Task: Edit a List in Datasheet View
• Task: Subscribe to a List RSS Feed
• Task: View List Item Properties
• Task: Edit List Item Properties
• Task: Manage List Item Permissions
• Task: Edit a List View
• Task: Add a List View
• Task: Delete a List Item

Manage Libraries

• Task: Create a Library
• Task: Add a File to a Document Library
• Task: Create a New Folder in a Library
• Task: Create New Columns in a Library
• Task: Edit Existing Library Columns
• Task: Delete Library Columns
• Task: Upload a Single Library Item
• Task: Upload Multiple Library Items
• Task: Edit a Library in Datasheet View
• Task: Export a Library to an Excel 2010 Spreadsheet
• Task: Export a Library to an Excel 2007 Spreadsheet
• Task: Subscribe to a Library RSS Feed
• Task: View Library Item Properties
• Task: Edit Library Item Properties
• Task: Manage Library Item Permissions
• Task: Edit a Library View
• Task: Add a Library View
• Task: Delete a Library Item
• Task: Edit a Library Item in a Preferred Application
• Task: Download a Library Item to Edit Locally
• Task: Check Out a Library Item
• Task: Check Out a Library Item in Office 2010
• Task: Check Out a Library Item in Office 2007
• Task: Check Out Library Items in SharePoint Workspace
• Task: Check In a Library Item
• Task: Check In a Library Item in Office 2010
• Task: Check In a Library Item with Office 2007
• Task: Check In Documents in SharePoint Workspace
• Task: Send a Copy of an Item to Another Library
• Task: E-Mail a Link to the Item
• Task: Recovering Items from the Recycle Bin
• Task: Edit Library Content Types

Manage Business Data

• Task: Create a Contacts Web Database
• Task: Add a Contact in the Contacts Web Database
• Task: Edit a Contact in the Contacts Web Database
• Task: Create a Projects Web Database
• Task: Add New Users to the Projects Web Database
• Task: Add a New Project to the Projects Web Database
• Task: Create an Assets Web Database
• Task: Add an Asset to the Assets Web Database
• Task: Retire an Asset from the Assets Web Database

Use Outlook for Sharing

• Task: Connect a SharePoint Library to Outlook 2010
• Task: Connect a SharePoint Library to Outlook 2007
• Task: Share SharePoint Content with Outlook 2010
• Task: Share Outlook Content with Outlook 2007
• Task: Connect to SharePoint from a Sharing Message in Outlook 2010
• Task: Connect to SharePoint from a Sharing Message in Outlook 2007
• Task: Edit Document Library Files in Outlook 2010
• Task: Edit Document Library Files in Outlook 2007
• Task: Remove a Connected Document from Outlook 2010
• Task: Remove a Connected Document from Outlook 2007
• Task: View a SharePoint Calendar with Outlook 2010
• Task: View a SharePoint Calendar with Outlook 2007
• Task: Edit a SharePoint Calendar in Outlook 2010
• Task: Edit a SharePoint Calendar in Outlook 2007
• Task: Create a Meeting Workspace with Outlook 2010
• Task: Create a Meeting Workspace with Outlook 2007
• Task: Remove a SharePoint Resource from Outlook 2010
• Task: Remove a SharePoint Resource from Outlook 2007

Conduct Surveys

• Task: Create a Survey
• Task: Preview Your Survey
• Task: Enable Survey Branching
• Task: Send a Survey Link
• Task: View Survey Results
• Task: Compile Survey Results

Create and Customize a My Site

• Task: Create a My Site
• Task: Edit Your My Site Profile
• Task: Add Colleagues to Your My Site
• Task: Configure a Newsfeed on Your My Site
• Task: Tag SharePoint Content
• Task: Tag External Content
• Task: Edit Public and Private Views
• Task: Apply a Theme to My Site
• Task: Add a Web Part to My Site
• Task: Add a Silverlight Web Part to My Site
• Task: Add a My Links Web Part to My Site
• Task: Target a Web Part Audience
• Task: Remove a Web Part from My Site
• Task: Add a New Page to My Site
• Task: Upload a Document to My Site

Publish Web Content: Site Authors

• Task: Create a Site for Published Content
• Task: Create a Content Page
• Task: Edit Page Content in Place
• Task: Create a Content Page in Word
• Task: Spell Check Page Content
• Task: Add an Image to a Content Page
• Task: Add Publishing Approvers
• Task: Submit Page for Publishing Approval
• Task: Approve Content for Publication
• Task: Change Page Schedule/Expiration Date
• Task: Manually Start a Workflow for Publication
• Task: Create a Custom Permission Level

Publish Web Content: Site Owners

• Task: Change a Site Theme
• Task: Create a Site Theme in PowerPoint
• Task: Apply a Site Theme from PowerPoint
• Task: Change a Site Logo
• Task: Change a Site Master Page
• Task: Add Cascading Style Sheets
• Task: Organize Pages in a Web Site
• Task: Upload a Users Solution to the Site Collection Solution Gallery
• Task:  Allow Users to Create Different Subsites
• Task: Create a Wiki Page Home Page
• Task: Edit a Wiki Page Home Page
• Task: Customize Publishing Site Navigation
• Task: Implement and Configure the Content Query Web Part
• Task: Export a Custom Query Web Part
• Task: Implement and Configure Custom Content Query Web Parts
• Task: Implement and Configure the Summary Links Web Part

Publish Web Content: Site Collection Owners

• Task: Enable Output Cache
• Task: Configure Site Collection Default Cache Profiles
• Task: Configure Output Cache Profiles
• Task: Add an Output Cache Profile
• Task: Override the Configured Output Cache Profile
• Task: Configure the Object Cache
• Task: Flush Disk-Based and Object Cache
• Task: Enable and Configure Cross-List Query Cache
• Task: Install and Activate a Sandbox Solution
• Task: Deactivate a Sandbox Solution