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Published inJan 2011
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Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Setting up an enterprise wiki


An enterprise wiki is an efficient way to share knowledge across an organization. The wiki is an organic self-policing site for knowledge. In addition, the users who are consuming the site will categorize objects and the site will contain its own taxonomy.

In reality, it is an online database that promotes collaboration in an organization. SharePoint 2010 contains this functionality out of the box and includes a few bells and whistles such as:

  • Tagging

  • Comments

  • Ratings

  • Managed metadata

For some of the additional functionality to work, a managed metadata service should be set up and configured.

In this recipe, we will set up an Enterprise Wiki at the Site Collection level.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration website.

  2. 2. Click Application Management.

  3. 3. Under the Site Collections section, click Create site collections.

  4. 4. Ensure that the proper...

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Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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