Sharepoint 2010

Getting started with
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Microsoft Corporation
Published: May 2010
Author: Microsoft Office System and Servers Team (itspdocs@microsoft.com)
Abstract
This book provides basic information about the capabilities of and requirements for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The audiences for this book include application specialists, line-of-business applicationspecialists, information architects, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are just starting to learn about SharePoint Server 2010 and want a quick introduction plus installation steps.
The content in this book is a copy of selected content in the SharePoint Server 2010 technical library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=181463) as of the publication date. For themost current content, see the technical library on the Web.


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Contents
Getting help vIntroduction to Getting Started for SharePoint Server 2010 1
What's new in SharePoint Server 2010 2
Evaluation guide for SharePoint Server 2010 (white paper) 3
Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010) 4
Overview 4
Hardware requirements 4
Software requirements 5
Minimum requirements 5
Optional software 8
Installing software prerequisites 9
Plan browser support (SharePoint Server2010) 11
About planning browser support 11
Key planning phase of browser support 11
Browser support levels 11
Browser details 12
Browser compatibility for publishing sites 27
ActiveX controls 28
Deploy a single server with SQL Server (SharePoint Server 2010) 29
Overview 29
Before you begin 29
Install SharePoint Server 2010 30
Run the Microsoft SharePoint Products Preparation Tool 31...