3. Learning SharePoint 2010 Essentials

This chapter tells you everything you need to know about configuring and using SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 is a powerful and robust tool for business collaboration, and it’s also loaded with features for individuals and families, including picture libraries, calendars, contact lists, web page link lists, and more. You can also use SharePoint to set up a blog, run a wiki, and plan an upcoming social event. However, SharePoint is also an online or network-based (depending on where you access SharePoint) storage application that acts as a kind of virtual hard drive you can use to store any type of file, particularly Office Web App files.

In the same way that you can configure a regular hard drive with ...

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