Chapter 2. Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Platform

In Chapter 1, we looked at some essential factors in planning your enterprise portal and collaboration strategy. A platform that supports this strategy will need to enable tasks that users will undertake on a regular basis, including creating documents, sharing information, managing content, communicating in real time, and making business decisions.

All of these tasks are supported by SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. The products all work well individually, and together they form a comprehensive collaboration, communication, and knowledge management platform. This chapter provides an overview of this collection of technologies, the corresponding architecture, and what is new about this ...

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