Essential SharePoint 2007" teaches you how to: use SharePoint 2007 with Outlook, Word and Excel, and as a document management tool, replacing, for example, shared network drives with libraries; build and customize sites, lists, libraries and web parts for intranets and extranets; use SharePoint 2007 for team communication through blogs, wikis, surveys, and RSS and email alerts; build a SharePoint workflow application; create and program web parts in order to deliver custom services and data to a site; and, deploy and administer SharePoint 2007.Each chapter ends with a summary of best practices advocated by the author, and the first few chapters of the book are ideal as training materials for end users. Later chapters give developers and administrators tools not only to keep company sites running smoothly, but also to customize and extend them. This book also contains several appendices with a glossary of terms and hard-to-find information. "Essential SharePoint 2007" is a one-stop task-oriented guide for learning what's necessary to make this tool a vital part of team productivity.

About the Author
Jeff Webb is an internationally recognized SharePoint consultant and trainer, living in Florida, who has written about computers and technology for 20 years. Among his published O'Reilly titles are "Essential Sharepoint", "Sharepoint Office Pocket Guide", "Programming Excel with VBA and .NET", and "Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook". Jeff has also written programming guides, articles, and sample applications for Microsoft and Digital Equipment Corporation. He was an original member of Microsoft's Visual Basic team.