Darvish Shadravan - Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Inside Out

To get the most out of this book, you will need access to an installation of SharePoint 2013, either in your data center or in the cloud with Microsoft Office 365.

This book is designed to provide a comprehensive and practical guide to a majority of the out-of-the-box features in SharePoint 2013. The early chapters in the book are applicable to nearly everyone who is going to use SharePoint 2013 in their organizations. As the book continues, some of the topics become more specialized. However, the book is not structured in a sequential or linear way; in other words, each chapter stands on its own as a general reference when you need to learn about a particular topic. Feel free to read the book cover to cover if that suits your needs, or head straight to a relevant chapter when you need to dive into a particular capability.

provides a high-level overview of the six major workloads of SharePoint: Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights, and Composites. It discusses what is new in SharePoint 2013 and how the features and capabilities map to particular business scenarios such as Sharing, Organizing, and Discovering. This chapter also introduces the concept of SharePoint as a cloud-based service.

breaks down the administration of SharePoint into two categories: Business User Administration and Information Technology Professional Administration. The chapter covers a variety of administrative tasks that advanced users or site owners would typically perform. Topics covered include security, the physical and logical architecture of SharePoint, storage, and more.

is an entire chapter dedicated to using lists and libraries, which are the primary repositories for documents, tasks, and most other SharePoint artifacts. The chapter covers creating, modifying, securing, and designing List and Library apps so that you can put them to work storing and presenting your content in the most effective manner possible.

delves into the most popular type of site in SharePoint: team sites. In this chapter, you will learn all about the team collaboration capabilities in SharePoint 2013 team sites, including task management, shared Microsoft OneNote notebooks, and SkyDrive Pro.

explores the myriad of ways that the Microsoft Office client products integrate with SharePoint. In this chapter, you will learn about saving documents to libraries from Office applications, coauthoring, Office Web Apps, Access Services, integrating Microsoft Excel data with SharePoint lists, and much more.

tackles the new enterprise social features available in SharePoint 2013. The primary focus of this chapter is on understanding how to create, customize, use, and moderate the new community sites. In addition, this chapter provides an in-depth look at the personal Newsfeed, which provides aggregation of each users view of enterprise social data.

delivers a thorough look at many aspects of SharePoint 2013 workflows. You will learn about methods for designing workflows and the primary products for creating workflows, such as SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Visio. The differences between reusable, site, and list workflows are explained so that you will be fully equipped to add workflow automation to your sites.

looks at the important topic of information architecture and the management of all types of SharePoint content. This chapter dives deeply into how to best design your sites for effectively governing and managing large amounts of content. Special attention is given to ensuring that you understand the differences between managing content on Internet-facing sites versus internal sites.

helps you understand how to use the various types of content pages in SharePoint: wiki, publishing, web part, and so forth. After working through this comprehensive look into SharePoint content pages, you will be ready to begin designing and building your own content pages with SharePoint Designer.

is all about web parts. SharePoint pages are generally comprised of a number of web parts; therefore, it helps to have a solid understanding of the primary web parts you will use. In this chapter, you will learn what each web part does and how to manage it.