Real World SharePoint® 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs

FOREWORD

I HAD THE PLEASURE TO LEAD SharePoint Technical Product Management and be part of launching SharePoint 2010 to market in May 2010. SharePoint 2010 presents a tremendous amount of opportunity for customers and partners to build solutions with the rich investments we've made in features and platform capabilities. The number of man-hours across our engineering and product management teams to build this release is mind boggling to me! This wouldn't be possible without members of the SharePoint community who provided deep real-world feedback on the challenges and opportunities.

SharePoint 2010 delivers a platform that can host a number of solutions from collaboration self-service sites to business intelligence (BI) dashboards to high-end Internet sites. This allows organizations to consolidate their IT investments in a single place, and deliver a unified productivity experience to their end users. To realize this promise, it's important to carefully plan and leverage best practices to avoid common pitfalls and sub-optimal designs. With a new product in market, the challenge is always finding these real-world best practices.

This book is written by a special group of individuals, many of whom I've known and worked with over the last many years. They have been supporters of SharePoint for the last several releases, and have contributed greatly to the larger community, and provided continuous input to us. As part of the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program, many have had access ...