Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

4-1: Create and Configure a Document Library

Solution overview

Type of solution	Procedures
Features and tools	SharePoint sites, document libraries, permissions, and groups
Solution summary	Create a SharePoint site and a document library, and configure a library's settings, permissions, and template.
Benefits	Implement a secure, well-configured, URL-friendly site and document library.

Introduction

Before we dive into a more advanced configuration of a document library, we have to get one up and running. In this solution, we cover the procedures for creating a site and a document library. We then look at some of the library settings you'll want to configure before releasing a library into the wild, the most important of which is, not surprisingly, the library's ...