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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Overview of this book

SharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform that can support a wide variety of business scenarios. In many cases it needs to be configured or extended in order to deliver fully featured business solutions. While some books merely talk about the capabilities of SharePoint in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, this book takes a different approach. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions along with screenshots to help build exciting SharePoint business solutions that extend the platform. By the end of this book the reader will be a SharePoint developer to be reckoned with. This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. This book draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platforms underlying services to provide solutions that can support Social Collaboration, Content and Document Management, as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business solution that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book the reader will understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Summary


This chapter leveraged the Server OMs to create packaged solutions in order to deliver the site request and provisioning solution.

The customizations are grouped as follows:

  • Timer job: A timer job that is used to provision new sites based on requests in a central SharePoint list

  • Feature receiver: Feature receivers are used to add and remove the timer job registration

  • Application page: A custom form available globally to request a new site collection

  • Custom action: Add a menu item to the Site Actions menu that links to the site request form, giving users the ability to easily request a new site collection

This chapter showed how you can leverage custom solutions to help automate tedious site administration duties while enhancing governance and compliance capabilities. As these features require a lot of interaction with the farm as a whole, they are not appropriate for sandboxed solutions and would be a challenge to create for the cloud.