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Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Programmer to Programmer)

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I know this book was a bit late to get on the scene, June 5th. Let me tell you, this book was well worth the wait! I've had the chance to read other beginning SharePoint books and user guides, specifically SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform and Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies, and none of them lay it out for the end users as well as this book does.

The book is filled with easy to follow examples with step-by-step instructions that make it easy to implement your own team solutions.

My favorite chapters are 6, 10, 11, and 12; Content Types, Forms Services, Excel Services, and the BDC, respectively. None of these chapters are longer than 50 pages, but they are filled to the brim with so much useful information that you will read them from beginning to end.

This book is the definitive SharePoint user's guide.

This is the best book on the market for learning how the newest versions of SharePoint can help company's improve business processes and information management.

From getting a solid understanding of content types and site columns (new features within SharePoint) to making use of Forms Services, the reader gains knowledge of how to use these important concepts to create business solutions that are easy to maintain and extend.

Because SharePoint is so open and powerful, easily explaining how to incorporate SharePoint to help a company run its business more efficiently is challenging. To take full advantage of SharePoint, companies will need employees that are not developers (programmers) to embrace the technology. These users will need to know how to utilize SharePoint to meet business objectives, and how to customize the platform (without the need for code). This book is geared for this next generation of SharePoint users (called Designers) - and it delivers a winner.

Great book!

I've read a lot of books about Sharepoint and MOSS and actually I can say that this is my personal "top of the list" for ayone who wants to be introduced into the Sharepoint and MOSS world.
The book is simple to read and rich of guided samples, it covers all the aspects you need in order to start working with Sharepoint and MOSS.
If you're a developer that wants to customize the engine, this is not the right book for you... but if you've the needs to learn Sharepoint and to work immediately with it, this is extremely recommended.
As usual, Wrox is a guarantee...

(by http://www.demiliani.com/blog)

As the title states I find this a great place to start learning or use as a reference. You can never have enough good references!

I found this book to be inline with the other "Beginning" Wrox books. It outlines key concepts within the SharePoint platform and provides examples of how to use those concepts to build team solutions.

From outlining site columns and content types to working with ECS and the BDC this book is sure to provide you with essential SharePoint knowledge to get you going!

In between Sharepoint for Dummies and the MOSS Administrator Manual is this book - how to actually use SharePoint in the organisation. It has everything you need to know about the different components and what to do with them. A lifesaver!!!

I run the SharePoint helpdesk at my office and this is one of the most practical books out there. I have many resources on my bookshelf but tend to turn to this one first. The steps are clearly documented and the examples are written by people in the business world. Clearly worth the investment.

I found this book to be extremely helpful for what I needed and it has become a valuable resource that I refer to regularly. The step-by-step directions on how to accomplish a specific task were useful, clear, and correct. And the overall description of a key concept or process was clear and easy to follow. I had bought "Dummies" and was struggling with using that book but was able to make significant and quick progress in my site development with this one. I would highly recommend it.

I am still reading the book but I like it very much. I should have bought this book first. It starts from the beginning and gives you a good background to learn SP. There are a lot of good examples to test out what you have learned. Be sure to have an active site to work with and really learn this great material. I give this book 2 big thumbs up. If you want to learn SP, start here.

This book contains lots of good info for a person new to SharePoint but I found the "Try It Out" sections to be an exercise in frustration. Many of the "Try It Out" sections do not pick up from where the previous one left off and do not provide instructions on getting to the point where Step 1 of the section can be performed. Very annoying.

This book is very helpful for the SharePoint beginner. It is well structured and covers all the basics simply and concisely. Reading this book helped me setup a SharePoint site for my department and I'm an utter SharePoint Noob. My only criticism is the writing style. It's about as dry as reading the phonebook. But don't let that deter you. Just drink a cup of strong coffee and dive in.