Professional SharePoint® 2010 Enterprise Architect's Guidebook -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Sharepoint Architect Knowledge Requirements -- Chapter 1: A Digital Workforce for a Digital Age -- Understanding Enterprise 2.0 and SharePoint 2010 -- Understanding SharePoint's Value Proposition -- Deliver the Best Productivity Experience -- Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure -- Rapidly Respond to Business Needs -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Enterprise Landscape -- Reviewing the Business Landscape -- Business Drivers, Goals, and Context -- Factors Influencing the Business Environment -- Industry Sector, Business Formation, and Organizational Structure -- Important IT Models -- Reviewing the Technology Landscape -- Understanding the SharePoint 2010 Ecosystem -- Understanding Your Enterprise Architecture and Strategy -- Understanding Your Existing Infrastructure -- Understanding Your Existing Portal Solutions -- Reviewing the Legal Landscape -- Disability Discrimination Laws -- Freedom of Information Laws -- Personal Data Privacy Laws -- Electronic Records Management Standards and Compliance -- Corporate Rules and Regulations -- Finance Standards -- Export Control Regulations -- Reviewing the Information Landscape -- Reviewing the End-User Landscape -- Factors Influencing the End-User Environment -- Tools of the Information Worker -- Gathering Issues and Metrics -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Supporting Technology Knowledge Requirements -- Infrastructure Technologies -- Windows Operating System -- Identity and Access Management Technologies -- Load-Balancing Technologies -- Farm Communications and Protocols -- Database Technologies -- Storage Technologies -- Monitoring Technologies -- Internet Information Services -- Caching, Compression, and Performance -- Virtualization Technologies -- Backup -- Development Technologies.

.NET Framework -- Development Tools -- Application Life Cycle Management Tools -- Code Libraries -- Microsoft Office Technologies -- Browser -- Microsoft Office System -- Imaging and Capture -- Communication and Virtual Meeting Services -- Working Offline -- Complementary Third-Party Technologies -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Design Principles for Successful Deployments -- Determining the Desired Solution -- Determining Solution Characteristics -- Understanding SharePoint Project Management -- Defining Success -- Project Scope -- Mapping Requirements -- Project Team Members -- Understanding the SharePoint 2010 Containment Model -- Designing for Storage -- Designing for Governance -- Designing for IT -- Virtualization Policy -- Database Consolidation Policy -- Storage Policy -- Security Policy -- Disaster Recovery -- Designing for Users -- User Experience -- Role-Based Design -- Visual Design -- Personalized -- Designing for Information Workers -- Process Mapping -- SharePoint Solution Center -- Designing the Information Architecture -- Terminology -- Content -- Involving Key Users -- Focus Groups -- Card Sorting -- Prototypes and Pilots -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Learning How Microsoft Uses Sharepoint 2010 -- Key Sites and Services -- Microsoft Web (MSW) -- InfoPedia -- SharePoint Utility -- The Microsoft IT SharePoint "Dogfooding" Experience -- Customers -- Product Group -- Microsoft IT -- Microsoft Users -- The Challenges of Dogfooding -- Blueprint for Success -- Business Continuity Management -- Virtualization -- Governance and Life-Cycle Management -- Site Asset and Content Stewardship -- Custom Site Branding -- Compliance and Life-Cycle Management of SharePoint Sites -- Communication and Education -- Summary -- Part II: The Sharepoint 2010 Platform -- Chapter 6: Sharepoint Fundamentals -- Introducing the SharePoint Farm -- The SharePoint Farm.

Web Applications -- Databases -- Service Applications -- Servers -- Introducing Site Collections and Sites -- Site Collections Versus Sites -- Site Templates -- Pages, Web Parts, and Page Content -- Permissions and Access Control -- Features and Solutions -- Software Boundaries -- Introducing Libraries, Lists, and List Items -- Lists and Library Types -- Content Types -- Columns -- List Views -- Licensing and Software Versions -- Online or On-premises -- Comparing On-Premise Editions -- Companion Technologies -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Evolution of Sharepoint -- SharePoint 2001 - From the Birthing Pool -- SharePoint 2003 - Growing Pains -- SharePoint 2007 - Coming of Age -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Sharepoint 2010 Features and Capabilities -- Publishing Services -- Publishing Sites Templates -- Web Page Publishing Life Cycle -- Branding -- Multi-lingual, Multi-channel, Multi-device, and Multi-farm Support -- Standards and Compliance Support -- Web Analytics and Reporting -- Information Services -- Information Management -- Information Service Site Templates -- Large-Scale and Extremely Large-Scale Content Repositories -- Enterprise Terms, Metadata, and Content Type Hubs -- Content Organizer -- In-place Records Management -- Digital and Rich Media Asset Support -- Collaboration Services -- Search Services -- User Experience -- Content Gathering and Processing Pipeline -- Query Processing Pipeline -- Individual and Social Networking Services -- Business Connectivity Services -- Business Intelligence Services -- Business Intelligence Center Site Template -- Charting Web Part -- Status Indicators/List and Detail Web Part -- Excel Services -- PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint -- Visio Services -- Access Services -- Business Connectivity Services -- PerformancePoint Service Application -- Reporting Services -- Workflow and Forms Services -- Workflow.

Business Forms -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Understanding Sharepoint 2010 Service Applications -- Service Application Model -- Bye-Bye Shared Service Provider -- Hello Service Applications -- Available Service Applications by SharePoint Editions -- Service Applications Life Cycle -- Starting Services -- Deploying Service Applications -- Configuring Service Applications -- Consuming Service Applications -- Publishing Service Applications -- Architectural Principles -- Architecture Examples -- Inter-farm SSPs Versus Cross-farm Service Applications -- Multi-tenancy -- Load Balancing -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Sharepoint 2010 Platform Architectures -- Server Farm Topologies -- Web Tier -- Application Tier -- Database Tier -- Small or Single-Tier Topology -- Medium or Two-Tier Topology -- Large or Three-Tier Topology -- Service Application Topologies -- Service Application Groups and Associations -- Service Application Security -- Planning Service Application Topologies -- Publishing Service Applications -- Wide Area Networks -- Putting It All Together -- Search Topologies -- Query Architecture -- Crawl Architecture -- Geographically Distributed Deployments -- Selecting an Architecture -- Determining an Administrative Model -- Identifying Costs -- Determining Service Level Agreements -- Scaling Your Architecture -- Factors Affecting Scaling -- Deciding to Scale Up -- Deciding to Scale Out -- Considering the Trade-offs -- Considering Network Performance -- Considering Active Directory -- Using Service Farms -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Working with Internal and External Data in Sharepoint 2010 -- Manipulating Internal Data -- Integrating External Data -- List Data Platform Capabilities -- Lists Relationships and Lookups -- List Joins and Projections -- List Validation -- Large Query Throttling -- Business Connectivity Services -- Integrating External Data.

External Content Types -- External Lists -- Security and Authentication Models -- Data Integration Extensibility -- .NET Assembly Connectors -- Custom Connectors -- Aggregation -- Real-time Aggregation -- Search-Based Aggregation -- Working with Data -- Server APIs -- Client APIs -- Choosing a Data Access Technology -- Event Model -- Incorporating Cloud Data and Compute Services -- Developing Cloud-Based Data and Compute Services -- Incorporating Services into Your SharePoint Solution -- Taking Business Data Offline -- Using SharePoint Workspace -- Using Microsoft Office -- Summary -- Part III: Architecting Enterprise Portal Services -- Chapter 12: Defining Your Sharepoint 2010 Portal Strategy -- The Example Scenario -- Review the Business Environment -- Engage Key Stakeholders -- Identifying Key Stakeholders -- Define the Business Drivers -- Define Portal Capabilities and Blueprint -- Support Business Drivers -- Support Key Audiences -- Portal and Supporting Capabilities -- Define Your Portal Blueprint -- Build Your Enterprise Portal Strategy -- Define Your Strategy -- Define Your Road Map -- Agree on Stakeholder Responsibilities -- Executive Sponsorship -- Steering Committee or Board -- Project Sponsorship -- Program Manager -- Project Manager -- Project Team -- End Users -- Best Practices -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Getting Started with Your Program and Projects -- Requirements Activities -- Eliciting Requirements -- Analyzing Requirements -- Validating Requirements -- Recording Requirements -- Technical Design Activities -- Forming an Understanding of the Project and Customer Requirements -- Beginning Early Design Activities -- Conceptualizing the Logical and Physical SharePoint 2010 Solution -- Early Technical Leadership Activities -- Selecting a Software Development Methodology -- Managing, Tracking, and Recording Key Design Decisions.

Setting Up Development Standards and Best Practices.