SharePoint Foundation 2010 improves upon previous editions of the platform by providing a rich set of features and functionality. Once employed, these powerful features are easily accessible and can be used by anyone within your organization who has the access and security permissions to the site. The following are just some of the features to which you’ll be introduced:

The following section covers site navigation. As you might recall from Chapter 2, there are numerous built-in templates that can be used when setting up a SharePoint site. The Team Site template has a little bit of everything when it comes to objects and functionality (along with being the most widely used site template for setting up a SharePoint site within organizations).

The Team Site template provides a basis for the parts of a typical SharePoint Site. Although the other site templates offer different functionality, we believe that the Team Site template is a good reference point. We will also go into some of the peculiarities of using some of the other site templates later in the book.