Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers (Paperback)

by Jeff Webb (Author)
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Product Description
If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform. Essential SharePoint 2007 demonstrates how your business can use SharePoint to control documents, structure workflow, and share information over the Web using standard tools business users already know -- Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Written in a conversational tone by internationally recognized SharePoint consultant and trainer Jeff Webb, this book helps SharePoint administrators, site owners, and power users quickly gain the skills necessary to perform a wide variety of tasks for intranet and extranet web sites, and explains what's new in SharePoint 2007 for experienced SharePoint 2003 administrators. 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 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. The 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 445 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (July 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596514077
• ISBN-13: 978-0596514075
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,698 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete and concise, March 31, 2009

By	C. Hartel (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This book is well-written and covers a good range of SharePoint topics. I find it more readable than "The Definitive Guide" (Pyles et al.), another O'Reilly book on the subject. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison of topics covered, but I would definitely recommend reading this one first if you're new to SharePoint.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sharepoint for Comprehensive Enterprise-wide Intranet, November 30, 2007

By	M. T. Herzog "MS4biz&gov" (Denver, CO, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Effective planning for a Sharepoint MOSS 2007 rollout is best addressed in Essential Sharepoint. The "High-Impact" subtitle is the key - this book methodically enforces the principal purpose of MOSS - Communication, Collaboration, Consolidation and Consistency - through a conscientious introduction in Chapters 1-3 followed by implementation aspects in Chapters 4-13. Appendix A guides you through most common Sharepoint tasks and provides fodder for your own User Manual. This book especially assist in Enterprise-wide intranet development. It helps ensure that you develope governance strategies and thoroughly plan. The result is a comprehensive technology worker dashboard for continuous data/document access and organization-wide collaboration at its best.