Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration: Real-World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Planning the Logical Architecture -- SharePoint Editions and Features -- SharePoint Defined -- SharePoint Editions -- Features by Edition -- Understanding the SharePoint Logical Architecture -- The Server Farm -- Site Collections and Sites -- Designing a Logical Taxonomy -- Building a Business Team -- Preparing Questions -- Defining Business Requirements -- Defining the Budget -- Documenting Everything -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 2: Designing the Physical Architecture -- Translating the Logical to the Physical Architecture -- Server Requirements -- Supporting Components -- Business Context -- Mapping Logical Design to Physical Specifications -- Documenting the Design -- Capacity Planning -- Storage -- Bandwidth -- Processing -- Forecasting Deployment Architecture Growth -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 3: Integrating SharePoint with the Network Infrastructure -- Planning Farm Communications -- Internal Farm Communications -- External Farm Communications -- Content Deployment Paths -- Network Protocols: A Summary -- The OSI Model -- Networking Hardware -- Physical Layer Protocols -- Communications Protocols -- Network Services -- IP Addressing -- DNS -- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) -- Internet Information Services ( IIS) -- SQL Server -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 4: Planning for Farm Deployment -- Planning Farm Deployment -- Sequential Deployments -- Standalone Deployments -- Single-Server Farm Deployments -- Multiserver Farm Deployments -- Designing a Virtual Environment -- Installing a Single-Server Farm -- Installing Windows Server -- Applying Updates -- Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 -- Installing Microsoft Office 2010.

Installing SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise -- Configuring SharePoint Server 2010 -- Planning for Sandbox Solutions -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 5: Planning the Security Architecture -- Planning Authentication Methods -- Authentication Explored -- Integrated Windows Authentication -- Claims-Based Authentication -- Secure Store Service -- Planning for Secure Sites -- Planning Secure Authentication -- Planning a Secure Authorization Environment -- Designing Authorization -- Security Levels -- Taxonomy of SharePoint Groups -- Permission Levels -- Planning Web Application Security -- WebApp Site Collection Security -- Managed Accounts -- Planning Code Access Security -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 6: Designing an Operations Strategy -- Designing a Maintenance Strategy -- Patch Management -- Ongoing Maintenance Tasks -- Planning a Monitoring Strategy -- Monitoring the SharePoint Installation -- Performance Monitoring -- Logging -- SharePoint Health Analyzer -- Developing Provisioning Strategies -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 7: Designing a Strategy for Business Continuity -- Designing Availability -- Redundancy Servers -- Recovery Strategies -- Implementation Plans -- Planning a Scaling Strategy -- Scaling Up -- Scaling Out -- Choosing to Scale Up or Out -- Using Virtualization -- Designing Recovery Strategies -- Backup Plans -- Performing Backups -- Performing Recoveries -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 8: Planning Service Applications -- Determining Service Application Server Roles -- The Way It Was -- The Service Application Architecture -- Service Application Roles -- The Service Application Security Model -- Planning a Business Connectivity Services Strategy -- Planning an Excel Services Strategy -- Designing a Forms Strategy -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 9: Planning a SharePoint Component Strategy.

Designing Web Applications -- Understanding Application Pools -- Working with Web Applications -- Web Application Policies -- SharePoint Features Used by Websites and Web Applications -- Designing Features and Solutions -- Understanding Features -- Developing SharePoint Solutions -- Understanding Web Parts -- Planning for Site Customizations -- Site Templates and Definitions -- Multilingual Deployment -- Master Pages -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 10: Planning Search Solutions -- Designing the Search Requirements -- Defining Search Requirements -- Planning Content Sources -- Planning Data Types -- Planning Indexing -- Planning Federated Location Requirements -- Planning Search Scopes -- Planning Search Results by Prioritizing Locations -- Planning the Search Topology -- Administering an Index Partition and Query Components -- Administering Crawl Databases and Components -- Administering Property Databases and Host Distribution Rules -- Managing Crawler Server Specifics -- Planning Enterprise Search -- Search Topology Introduction -- Designing the SharePoint Search Topology -- Planning for People Search -- Planning Search Reporting -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Chapter 11: Planning Business Management Strategies -- Planning Collaboration Components -- Collaboration Component Overview -- Collaboration Component Environments -- Designing Content Management -- ECM Component Overview -- Document Management Planning -- Managed Metadata Planning -- Information Management Policy Planning -- Web Content Management Planning -- Records Management Planning -- Digital Asset Management Planning -- Planning for Social Computing -- The User Profile Service -- My Site Management -- Planning for Business Intelligence Strategy -- Administering PerformancePoint -- Administering Excel Services -- Managing Visio Services -- Summary -- Exam Essentials.

Chapter 12: Planning an Upgrade and Migration Strategy -- Planning a Strategy for Upgrades -- Planning for 64-Bit Computing -- Planning for Availability for the Upgrade -- Upgrading Operating Systems -- Upgrading Early SharePoint Versions -- MOSS 2007 Upgrades -- SQL Server Upgrades -- SQL Server Migrations -- Performing In-Place Upgrades -- Performing a Rollback -- Designing a Migration Strategy -- Database Migration Considerations -- Managing Content -- Migrating Custom Features -- Creating a Test and QA Implementation Plan -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Appendix A: Microsoft's Certification Program -- Appendix B: About the Companion CD -- Glossary -- Index.