Beginning SharePoint Administration: Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server (Wrox Beginning Guides) [Paperback]

Göran Husman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470038632 | ISBN-13: 978-0470038635 | Publication Date: October 2, 2006 | Edition: 1

This practical guide covers the many uses of SharePoint 2003 as well as the differences between SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows(r) SharePoint Services (WSS). In addition, the book will help you decide if you need only WSS or if you should also implement SPS.

While the main focus is on planning, installation, configuration, and administration, you'll also learn how to customize SharePoint by creating templates, building your own Site Definition, and using FrontPage(r) to enhance the look and feel of SharePoint sites. In addition, you will learn the business-critical methods of backing up and restoring your system.

Microsoft MVP and author Goran Husman shares numerous tips for smart add-ons and utilities that will enhance the functionality of SharePoint by providing better navigation, the ability to integrate with other systems, and effective workflow solutions. His practical and easy-to-follow instructions will help you get your SharePoint environment up and running in no time. He even shows you how to make your eventual upgrade to SharePoint 2007 seamless.

What you will learn from this book

• How to install Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)
• Tips on what to focus on when customizing SharePoint
• How to productively use SharePoint with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook(r)
• Various ways to handle backup and restore procedures
• The many free utilities and commercial third-party products that are available
• How to create and work with intranet pages

Who this book is for

This book is for beginning SharePoint administrators as well as administrators who have been working with SharePoint for some time but may want to know more about how it works. A basic understanding of the Microsoft Windows operating system (including the Active Directory) as well as web applications in general is assumed.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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This practical guide covers the many uses of SharePoint 2003 as well as the differences between SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows® SharePoint Services (WSS). In addition, the book will help you decide if you need only WSS or if you should also implement SPS.

While the main focus is on planning, installation, configuration, and administration, you'll also learn how to customize SharePoint by creating templates, building your own Site Definition, and using FrontPage® to enhance the look and feel of SharePoint sites. In addition, you will learn the business-critical methods of backing up and restoring your system.

Microsoft MVP and author Göran Husman shares numerous tips for smart add-ons and utilities that will enhance the functionality of SharePoint by providing better navigation, the ability to integrate with other systems, and effective workflow solutions. His practical and easy-to-follow instructions will help you get your SharePoint environment up and running in no time. He even shows you how to make your eventual upgrade to SharePoint 2007 seamless.

What you will learn from this book

• How to install Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)
• Tips on what to focus on when customizing SharePoint
• How to productively use SharePoint with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook®
• Various ways to handle backup and restore procedures
• The many free utilities and commercial third-party products that are available
• How to create and work with intranet pages

Who this book is for

This book is for beginning SharePoint administrators as well as administrators who have been working with SharePoint for some time but may want to know more about how it works. A basic understanding of the Microsoft Windows operating system (including the Active Directory) as well as web applications in general is assumed.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author

Göran Husman is a true computer nerd who started his career as a computer programmer in 1978. After working as a C and Fortran developer for a medical university and later a large telecom company, he started his own consulting company in 1989. Due to market demands he soon switched his focus from Unix to the MS environment and from developing code to implementing large e-mail systems and building information systems. Göran has also been hired as a computer trainer since the beginning of 1980. In 1993 he became one of the first certified MS Certified Trainers (MCT) in Sweden, and he has regularly conducted MS courses ever since. He is also certified by MS as an MCP (with the number 2888) and an MSCE. His great engagement in e-mail systems awarded him status as Sweden’s first MS Exchange MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft. He switched focus to MS SharePoint in 2003, and in January 2006 Microsoft awarded him status as Sweden’s first SharePoint Portal Server MVP. Göran has written a large number of training materials for the Swedish market over the years, and in 2001 his book Exchange 2000 Server on Site was released in the U.S. He is also frequently a speaker in conferences and seminars. Today Göran is dividing his time between consulting contracts, training, leading his company Human Data, and from time to time writing books. Oh, and he is also the proud father of six great kids from the ages of 5 to 27, which may be his greatest achievement in life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 522 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (October 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470038632
• ISBN-13: 978-0470038635
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SharePoint 2003 ONLY!, February 13, 2007

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Steve Madsen "Steven Madsen" (Sacramento, CA. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning SharePoint Administration: Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server (Wrox Beginning Guides) (Paperback)

Well written with many useful illustrations. However, it is for SharePoint 2003, NOT 2007! Although there is a short chapter in the back about new 2007 features, the author is currently working on a 2007 version of this book, which apparently hasn't been published quite yet.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, well written better than MS Press., May 3, 2007

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This review is from: Beginning SharePoint Administration: Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server (Wrox Beginning Guides) (Paperback)

I recommend this book to anyone who is looking to deploy SharePoint and needs to start from scratch and understand architecture of it. The author did a great job explaining and giving all the tools needed to design and deploy SharePoint successfully. Very easy read and I love the fact that author uses humor in his book makes it easier to read. This is the only book you really need to design, architect and deploy SharePoint. I have done it with great success. Two thumps up!!!

Sr. Systems Engineer

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to the Software, November 19, 2006

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning SharePoint Administration: Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server (Wrox Beginning Guides) (Paperback)

SharePoint has been a product growing at Microsoft for several years. As is often the case, now in what is basically its third generation it is finally reaching an extremely useful stage.

This book is written by an expert in the Software that has been working as a trainer in the SharePoint for four years. It begins with a basic introduction to the software and follows this with detailed installation instructions.

With a working SharePoint the following chapters each take on one aspect of the software. These can be used independently or studied in sequence to provide an overall insight into the software and what it can do. Finally, in the last chapter he goes on to discuss the changes that will come in SharePoint 2007.