Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices is a valuable compendium of best practices, tips, and secrets straight from the most knowledgeable SharePoint gurus in the industry.

Learn from the experts as you dive into topics like multitenancy, solution deployment, business intelligence, and administration. Our team of carefully chosen contributors, most with Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation bestowed upon them, shares with you the secrets and practices that have brought them success in a wide variety of SharePoint scenarios.

Each contributor is passionate about the power of SharePoint and wants to help you leverage the capabilities of the platform in your business—but in the proper way. Go beyond procedures and manuals, and benefit from hundreds of years of combined experience, which the authors of Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices provide in these pages.

Learn from the masters and take control of SharePoint 2010 like you never have before with Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices!

What you’ll learn

• How to design and architect public-facing SharePoint sites
• Best practices for building business applications with SharePoint Foundation 2010
• How to bridge the Office-SharePoint gap that exists in many organizations
• Best practices around solution deployment in SharePoint 2010

Who this book is for
Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices is a book geared toward professional (that is, intermediate- to advanced-level) solution developers, administrators, and architects. Each chapter will stand alone, so all audiences will find valuable advice and reference within the text. Readers should be familiar with SharePoint in their respective capacities and have more than a beginner-level understanding of its features and capabilities.

Table of Contents
Workflows
Bridging the Office-SharePoint Gap
Leveraging Content Types
Automating Document Assembly
Practical Document Management with SharePoint 2010
Forms Services and InfoPath
The SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model
Extending SharePoint Using Event Receivers
Touch Points: Integrating SharePoint 2010 and ASP.NET
Client-Side Programming
SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Development
SharePoint Solution Deployment
Business Intelligence
Business Connectivity Services
Designing Mashups with Excel and Visio
Tips, Tricks, and Traps
PerformancePoint Services
Public-Facing SharePoint Sites
Claims-Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010

About the Author
Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts.com, has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for the past 10 years. He has authored many books and numerous articles in the .NET and SharePoint space. Sahil has architected and delivered SharePoint based solutions for extremely high profile clients and talks at conferences internationally. Sahil’s has authored two books for Apress on SharePoint 2010.