Essential SharePoint 2007 (Paperback)

~ Scott Jamison (Author), Mauro Cardarelli (Author), Susan Hanley (Author)
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Product Description

Essential SharePoint® 2007 focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office

SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making,

streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems.

Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the

crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint

deployment—showing exactly how to maximize business value and

reduce project risk.

 

Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through

planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the

unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support

and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work—with

special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can

make or break your project. Learn how to:

 

• Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies
• Build SharePoint applications people want to use
• Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis
• Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable
• Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process 
• Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services
• Organize and staff SharePoint support teams
• Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003

Whether you're a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy - and deliver quantifiable results fast.

 

 

Preface

Chapter 1 Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success

Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact Collaboration

Across the Extended Enterprise

Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration

and Solutions Platform

Chapter 4 SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals

Chapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture

Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007:

Upgrade or Rebuild?

Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery Planning

Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Management: Documents,

Records, and Web

Chapter 10 Enterprise Search

Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms

Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007

Chapter 13 Providing Business Intelligence

Appendix A SharePoint User Tasks

Appendix B OS/Browser/Office Compatibility

Index

About the Author

Scott Jamison is an expert on information worker technologies, collaborative applications, and software + services. He has more than 15 years of experience helping customers solve business problems through technology solutions, currently at Microsoft as Director of Enterprise Architecture. Scott has worked with SharePoint since 2001, recently participating as an architect on Microsoft’s developer advisory council helping design features for SharePoint Server 2007. Scott is a recognized thought leader and published author with several books, including Essential SharePoint 2007.  Scott holds degrees in business and computer science. 

 

Mauro Cardarelli is a recognized technology expert in Knowledge

Management and Business Intelligence-based solutions. He has over 18

years of experience in the IT industry, half of which have been spent working

as a Microsoft-focused technology consultant. He has worked with a

number of Fortune 500 companies, and his solutions have been mentioned

in multiple Microsoft case studies. In 2006, he founded Jornata

(www.jornata.com), a business and technology services provider that helps

companies achieve exceptional performance through the effective use of

Microsoft technologies. His primary responsibilities at Jornata include

application architecture and development as well as client-focused

technology evangelism. Mauro is a frequent speaker and author on

Microsoft-related technologies. He received a bachelor of science degree

in electrical engineering from Tufts University.

 

Susan Hanley is an independent consultant and president of her own

firm, Susan Hanley LLC (www.susanhanley.com), where she specializes

in the design and development of portal solutions and knowledge management

consulting. Sue has more than 25 years of experience as a technology

consultant, holding leadership positions at Dell, Plural, and American

Management Systems, Inc. (AMS). Sue served as a member of

Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council for Portals and Collaboration for

more than four years. She is a frequent writer and speaker on the topic of

building communities of practice and measuring the value of knowledge

management. In September 1997, she was recognized by Consultants

News as one of the key “knowledge leaders” at major consulting firms. Sue

has given top-rated presentations at many conferences in the United States

and Europe. Her byline articles have appeared in Knowledge

Management Review, Management Consultant International, DM Review,

Information Week, and The Cutter IT Journal. Sue is also a featured

author in several books on knowledge management. Sue has an MBA

from the University of Maryland at College Park and a BA in psychology

from Johns Hopkins University.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (June 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321421744
• ISBN-13: 978-0321421746
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ATlast a good book for the end-user community., June 23, 2007

By	Pritam Dahake "SharePoint man" (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Being a SharePoint architect, I always get asked by clients and end users for resources/books to learn SharePoint functionality. The users don't want to know the gritty programming details, but want to know the functionality at a high level so that they can use the portal to its potential. I have always had a tough time recommending to clients a good book....but now with this book, I feel comfortable as well as confident that clients would feel at home reading this book.
The book talks about what collaboration is and how to implement a successful portal. From an end-user perspective it goes through all the out of the box functionality which is available and which can be implemented without writing a single line of code. The search functionality of MOSS has been very well explained. End users can very easily implement out-of-the-box workflows. The publishing features are very clearly explained.
Overall, I am very pleased with the book. Bear in mind the audience for this book is not a developer. Its mainly for the business/end-user community.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book that fills in the gaps, August 1, 2007

By	William A. Miller "Consultant" (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have done a number of sharepoint implementation as a consultant, and I would say that this book offers the same type of strategy I've known for the last few years. When tackling a sharepoint implementation a number of questions are needing to be answered. Most people do not know what to ask and what to take into consideration. I would say if you read this book, you'll at least have the basic questions ready and an understanding on how to match the portal capabilities to the needs of the organization. Chapters 1 - 7 offer a good insight on how to plan out the portal. Governance alone is a great topic, most companies don't even consider it. Most companies think that you turn it on and it runs, this book looks at how to keep the portal relevant in the business.

One area that is not covered is IRM, although this is a big topic, and worthy of a book in itself, it should at least had a section or a chapter dedicated to it. I didn't see one.

I recommend this book as a great resource for planning a portal implementation, its high level, but gets the point across and gives plenty to consider.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A SharePoint book for the end user, and their managers., October 18, 2007

By	John R. Naylor (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Unlike most SP books out there at the moment, isn't all about how to install, set-up, administer, and write custom code for a SP deployment. It's much more aimed at end users, and people who need to plan a collaboration strategy around a shared knowledge base.

While a lot of it is management-theoretical in the first few chapters, it's sensible advice that gets one to think about things that are necessary to address, but wouldn't automatically have come to mind. The central message of "the 4 Cs" communication, collaboration, consolidation, and consistency help one to both recognize what's good, and also how to get there.

I think that chapters 1-3 are required reading for anyone in a human management role who will be involved with rolling out SharePoint as a collaboration tool.

Chapters 4-7 are more aimed at admins, so I skipped them.

Chapter 8 is great for individual site planning with "how to" and, more importantly "why to" and "when not to" advice on blogs, wikis, team sites, and their coherent integration.

The fastest payback for a reader comes in Appendix A which documents 24 things that a SP user needs to know how to do, from adding a files to a document library, to targeting information visibility by audience type.