Chapter 6. The SharePoint Server Primer

Perhaps you have read the parable about the three blind men and the elephant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant). This story is very apropos when describing Microsoft SharePoint Server (SharePoint) and its many capabilities. If you ask three software architects what SharePoint is, they will each give you a different answer, depending on the specific features and capabilities of SharePoint that they have used. It is very rare indeed that you will meet an architect or developer who has experience with all of the capabilities of SharePoint. The first architect might claim that SharePoint is an enterprise content management, document management, or even a business process management product. The second will insist that SharePoint is a collaboration and social networking product. And the last will say that it is an Intranet-In-A-Box. And they would all be partially correct; SharePoint is all of the mentioned features (and...