1. Chapter 1 Using SharePoint

   1. How Does This Help Me Do My Job?

   2. What Types of Sites Can I Create?

   3. What Software Do I Need?

   4. Parts of a Page

   5. Creating Sites

   6. Putting SharePoint to Work

   7. Best Practices

2. Chapter 2 Word, Excel, and Outlook

   1. Setting Client Security

   2. Editing, Saving, and Sharing Documents

   3. Editing Lists in Excel

   4. Viewing SharePoint Calendars from Outlook

   5. Organizing Meetings from Outlook

   6. Sharing Contacts with Outlook

   7. Best Practices

3. Chapter 3 Creating Sites

   1. Choosing a Location and Template

   2. Customizing Site Navigation

   3. Summarizing Content with Web Parts

   4. Adding Other Pages

   5. Setting Security (Controlling Access)

   6. Changing the General Appearance

   7. Creating Custom Themes

   8. Applying Stylesheets

   9. Creating and Using Site Templates

   10. Best Practices

4. Chapter 4 Creating Lists

   1. Using Built-in List Templates

   2. Adding Columns

   3. Adding Site Columns

   4. Creating Views

   5. Renaming a List and Changing Other Settings

   6. Controlling Access to Lists

   7. Editing List Pages

   8. Saving the List As a Template

   9. Deploying List Templates

   10. Best Practices

5. Chapter 5 Creating Libraries

   1. Using the Built-in Library Templates

   2. Changing Library Settings

   3. Adding Content Types

   4. Organizing Libraries

   5. Saving a Library As a Template

   6. Creating Library Applications

   7. Best Practices

6. Chapter 6 Building Pages

   1. Using the Built-in Web Parts

   2. Customizing List View Web Parts

   3. Creating Client-Side Web Parts

   4. Filtering Lists and Libraries in MOSS

   5. Connecting to Data with WSRP in MOSS

   6. Modifying Master Pages

   7. Best Practices

7. Chapter 7 Creating My Sites, Blogs, and Wikis

   1. Creating My Sites in MOSS

   2. Creating Blogs

   3. Creating Wikis

   4. Best Practices

8. Chapter 8 Enabling Email and Workflow

   1. Receiving Alerts

   2. Emailing Task Assignments

   3. Changing the From Address

   4. Time-Driven Alerts

   5. Emailing from Libraries

   6. Emailing to Libraries

   7. Creating Workflows

   8. Creating Workflows in MOSS

   9. Best Practices

9. Chapter 9 RSS, Rollups, and Site Maps

   1. RSS at a Glance

   2. Using Rollups

   3. Rollups Without MOSS

   4. Providing Site Maps

   5. Best Practices

10. Chapter 10 Gathering Data with InfoPath

    1. What Software Do You Need?

    2. Using Form Libraries

    3. Customizing Forms

    4. Making a Form Read-Only

    5. Populate a Control from a List

    6. Validating Data

    7. Preventing Changes to Form Templates

    8. Using InfoPath Forms Services

    9. Programming InfoPath

    10. Setting Trust

    11. Best Practices

11. Chapter 11 Programming Web Parts

    1. What to Build When . . .

    2. What to Download

    3. Creating Hosted Web Parts

    4. Preparing to Develop Rendered Web Parts

    5. Converting Existing Projects

    6. Programming Rendered Web Parts

    7. Creating Web Part Appearance

    8. Adding Child Controls

    9. Working on the Client Side

    10. Understanding Event Order

    11. Adding Properties

    12. Exporting Web Parts

    13. Adding Menus

    14. Customizing the Property Task Pane

    15. Connecting Parts

    16. Deploying Web Parts

    17. Best Practices

12. Chapter 12 Consuming SharePoint Services

    1. Choosing an Approach

    2. Using the Office Object Model

    3. Using Web Services

    4. Using URL Commands

    5. Using RPC

    6. Best Practices

13. Chapter 13 Administering SharePoint

    1. Installing SharePoint

    2. Enabling Internet Access

    3. Enabling Anonymous Access

    4. Enabling Forms-Based Authentication

    5. Using Zones

    6. Enabling Self-Service Site Creation

    7. Scheduling Backups

    8. Restoring

    9. Auditing Activity

    10. Enabling PDFs and Other File Types

    11. Best Practices

1. Appendix Upgrading

   1. Before You Upgrade

   2. Performing an In-Place Upgrade

   3. Performing a Side-by-Side Upgrade

   4. Performing a Database Migration

   5. Completing the Upgrade Process

   6. Upgrading 2007 Editions

2. Appendix Reference Tables

   1. Office Versions

   2. StsAdm Commands

   3. PSConfig Commands

   4. PreScan Commands

   5. Server Files and Locations

   6. Content Not Stored in Database

   7. CSS Styles

3. Glossary

4. Colophon

The animal on the cover of Essential SharePoint 2007 is a wombat (Vombatus ursinus). Averaging about 40 inches in length and weighing about 55 pounds, this Australian marsupial is the largest of the burrowing animals; as such, it is compared to the badger, but it is most closely related to the koala. Because wombats walk with an awkward waddle, they appear to be docile and slow, but are actually quite alert and agile-when necessary, they can move over short distances with the speed of an Olympic sprinter. Although wombats are not particularly territorial, they do prefer solitude. They are known to mark their often-overlapping feeding grounds by rubbing trees, sometimes to a polished appearance, and to leave their distinctive cube-shaped dung atop elevated items such as rocks, mushrooms, and even upright sticks.