Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs Review

Yesterday at Biwug (I know, this sounds a lot like “this one time at bandcamp”) I got this really cool prize for being the first one to register: a copy of the book “Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs” by Wrox. It is a part of the “Programmer to programmer” series and edited by Scot Hillier.

Those of you who follow my blog since a few years will remember I did an extensive review on the 2007 version of the book chapter by chapter.

Well, this blog is first and foremost my own knowledge management tool. It is set up so I can retrieve stuff that I did long ago in other projects. If the contents of my blog help you or others fix a problem, great! (please drop me a line if it does or buy me a beer 🙂 )

The book is a lot of heavier then the 2007 one and the number of MVP’s is higher now with 22 MVP’s as 16 MVP’s in 2007.So, first an overview of the chapters:

Chapter 1: Building a Perfect Test Environment for SharePoint Server 2010.

Chapter 2: Up grading to SharePoint Server 2010 — The Hybrid App roach

Chapter 3: Monitoring SharePoint 2010

Chapter 4: SharePoint 2010 Security Under the Hood — Claims¬Based Authentication

Chapter 5: Using PowerShell with SharePoint 2010

Chapter 6: Backing Up and Restoring SharePoint 2010

Chapter 7: Working with SharePoint Designer 2010

Chapter 8: Building Sandboxed Solutions

Chapter 9: SharePoint 2010 Web Parts

Chapter 10: Automating Business Processes

Chapter 11: Building Customer Service Applications for the Right Situations

Chapter 12: Managing the SharePoint Application Lifecycle

Chapter 13: Using Silverlight 4 with SharePoint 2010

Chapter 14: Business Connectivity Services

Chapter 15: Using PerformancePoint Services 2010

Chapter 16: Managing Metadata with SharePoint Server 2010

Chapter 17: Understanding SharePoint 2010 Search

Chapter 18: Understanding Branding in SharePoint 2010

Chapter 19: Planning, Designing, and Administering a Multimedia Assets Management Solution

Chapter 20: Accessing SharePoint Data

Chapter 21: Finding Answers to Your SharePoint 2010 Questions

About: Marijn

Marijn Somers (MVP) has over 14 years experience in the SharePoint world, starting out with SP2007. Over the years the focus has grown to Office 365, with a focus on collaboration and document management. He is a business consultant at Balestra and Principal Content Provider for "Mijn 365 Coach" that offers dutch employee video training. His main work tracks are around user adoption, training and coaching and governance. He is also not afraid to dig deeper in the technicalities with PowerShell, adaptive cards or custom formatting in lists and libraries. You can listen to him on the biweekly "Office 365 Distilled" podcast.