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SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide [Kindle Edition]

James Pyles (Author), Christopher M. Buechler (Author), Christopher J. Regan (Author), Jason Medero (Author), Bob Fox (Author), Murray Gordon (Author), Michael Lotter (Author), Nilesh Mehta (Author), Joris Poelmans (Author), Christopher Pragash (Author), Piotr Prussak (Author)
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Using, Customizing, and Managing SharePoint 2007

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For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Office 2007 is an integrated set of services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide provides a detailed discussion of all Sharepoint features, applications and extensions. You learn how to build Sharepoint sites and site collections, along with ways to administrate, secure, and extend Sharepoint. This book teaches you how to:

  • Get up to speed on SharePoint, including ways to create lists, libraries, discussions and surveys
  • Integrate email, use web parts, track changes with RSS, and use database reporting services
  • Customize your personal site, create sites and areas, and organize site collections
  • Integrate with Office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook, Picture Manager, and InfoPath
  • Install, deploy, maintain and secure SharePoint
  • Brand a portal, using your corporate style sheet, designing templates, and building site definitions
  • Extend SitePoint, such as creating client side and server side web parts, using the SharePoint class library and SharePoint web services
Each chapter starts with a "guide" that lets you know what it covers before you dive in. The book also features a detailed reference section that includes information on compatibility, command line utilities, services, and CSS styles. Why wait? Get a hold of SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide today!
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 41639 KB
  • Print Length: 822 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media (17 Dec 2008)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004OR1JGY
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Finding a good book for SharePoint Products and Technologies (SPT) was more challenging than I thought. But look no further!

This book was written by a group of SharePoint experts and it provides a thorough technical overview of both WSS and MOSS yet remains easy to read. This book is aimed at Administrators but may be very useful for developers too who want to look at the bigger picture. I can highly recommend it as it covers everything I was looking for:

- functionality provided by WSS and MOSS
- difference between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)
- changes compared to the previous versions (2003)
- benefits of the changes, incl examples

But judge for yourselves - here is the table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Chapter 2: Changes in the WSS Architecture
Chapter 3: Installing SharePoint 2007
Chapter 4: Configuring a Multiserver Farm
Chapter 5: Designing SharePoint Sites
Chapter 6: Understanding the Datasheet and Explorer Views
Chapter 7: Applying Templates, Page Layouts, and Themes
Chapter 8: Creating Web Parts
Chapter 9: Creating and Managing Document Workspaces and Libraries
Chapter 10: Creating and Managing Meeting Workspaces
Chapter 11: Creating and Managing Discussions
Chapter 12: Creating and Managing SharePoint Groups and Users
Chapter 13: Creating and Managing Picture Libraries
Chapter 14: Creating and Managing Lists
Chapter 15: Business Intelligence and SharePoint
Chapter 16: Sharing Contacts and Meetings with Outlook
Chapter 17: Creating, Editing, and Managing Word Documents with SharePoint
Chapter 18: Creating, Editing, and Managing Excel Documents with SharePoint
Chapter 19: Creating in SharePoint Designer 2007
Chapter 20: InfoPath and SharePoint
Chapter 21: Designing SharePoint My Sites
Chapter 22: Applying Security to Your SharePoint Site
Chapter 23: SharePoint Administration
Chapter 24: Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Chapter 25: Using Server-Side and Client-Side Web Parts
Chapter 26: Using SharePoint Web Services
Chapter 27: Using SharePoint Server for Search
Chapter 28: Using the SharePoint Object Model
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book to help in getting me up to speed on Sharepoint. It's been next to my keyboard ever since and I can honestly say I never once looked anything up in the book and actually found it. For example, STSADM is pretty important in Sharepoint--- no useful coverage at all. What about Managed Paths-- also nothing, or Alternate Access Mappings, which is quite a misunderstood area, -- 6 lines of text. It came to the point where I was looking for stuff in this book already thinking, " I bet they've nothing about this or that either".

The book is filled with hundreds of largely useless screenshots which appear to serve no purpose other than to show what a screen looks like when it would have been enough to just describe the breadcrumb trail.

Also, the index is quite bad: for example, STSADM has one reference in the index that points to page 524 only, where the word STSADM is merely mentioned. "...backup and restore can be performed using...STSADM..", but, the actual commands are shown on page 535 which is not mentioned in the index.

I chose this book from a host of others because O'Reilly everything usually have been the definitive guides in my experience but this one should have a turkey on the cover.

Many, many important things are left out of this book and yet they still try to cover Sharepoint Designer in 20 pages of useless screenshots.

Definitve Guide? Most definitely not. Perhaps the other O'Reilly Sharepoint offerings are more useful, but this one looks like it was designed by commitee.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive 1 Nov 2007
By ueberhund - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
SharePoint 2007 is a huge topic to try and cover, but the authors (all 11! of them) do a tremendous job covering as much about SharePoint as is possible in a single book. In going through this book, I dare say there isn't a single SharePoint 2007 topic that isn't at least mentioned. In any case, it's certainly the most comprehensive SharePoint 2007 book that I have come across.

I felt the book was well organized and easy to read. Since SharePoint is potentially a very boring subject, the authors spice up the book (and help with the clarity) by providing a lot of SharePoint screenshots that correspond with the written text. I also appreciated the standard O'Reilly warning icons, indicating a potential point of trouble in configuring SharePoint.

At the risk of simply identifying each chapter in the book, the authors take the reader through a SharePoint site from start to finish. They begin with the installation, and all that can or should be configured at that time. The discussion continues through the configuration of sites, workspaces, and libraries.

While there were a few items in the book I wish received more mention, I realize this cannot be helped in a book covering as vast a subject as SharePoint. While there is a very good chapter on using the SharePoint object model, I would have liked to see much more than this. Additionally, I would have liked to see further discussion on customizing the UI of a SharePoint application. But again, that just isn't possible for a subject as vast as this.

While there are a few topics I would have liked more detail on, this is a excellent book on SharePoint 2007. Through the text, the reader is taken step-by-step through all practical aspects of a SharePoint 2007 installation and configuration. I would highly recommend this book for SharePoint administrators as well as portal admins.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Good broad (but shallow) coverage of SharePoint 17 Feb 2008
By James Holmes - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This book's very broad in its coverage of SharePoint 2007 and sacrifices depth for that breadth. While there are several chapters on development-related topics, development isn't the book's forte. Rather, the book's really targeted to giving a lot of background and foundational information for folks wanting to implement Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).

11 different contributors make some parts of the book difficult with their wide range of voices, and there are a number of clunky parts and some flat-out errors. (One minor example: A diagram of server topology switched the labels between the web front ends and application servers.)

Those nits aside, the book's well done and a solid resource for folks moving in to the WSS/MOSS arena. The sections on architecture, installation, and topology are all fine bits for discovering the broad strokes. The remaining chapters hit functional jobs like site design, managing workspaces/discussions/groups/libraries, etc. as well as mid-level views of business intelligence, Excel Services, Forms Services, and security.

Each chapter does a nice job of covering its topic with good introductory passages and a nice summary. Most chapters have a plethora of well-done, targeted screen shots backing up the content for that chapter. From time to time the particular author will call out pitfalls (nicely denoted with a trap graphic) and discuss issues surrounding that problem. I also like that the authors didn't try to push "Best Practice!" fluff throughout the book. (My biases come up here since 1) I hate the phrase "Best Practice" since it may be "Best" for you but completely "Suck" for me and 2) MOSS/WSS in their current incarnations are too new to have solid, industry-wide guidance anyway.)

Overall, I've gotten some very good value out of the book and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to others, aside from making sure it's understood that the book's not one for understanding the mid-level or more complex areas of WSS/MOSS.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Horribly written and organized 4 Jun 2010
By Mikki Heeg - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Authors jump over details, figure references are several pages before the figures themselves. Figures are straight screenshots that are too small to read, with no image notation to highlight the part being referenced by the text. Many functions don't have screen shots leaving the reader to guess at how the navigation to the screen shown was accomplished. Worse than trying to learn it with Microsoft's online references.
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