Customer Reviews

Microsoft Exchange 2000, Conferencing Server, and SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (White Book)

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My review pertains only to the SharePoint section of this book, since that's what I was interested in. The information on implementing SharePoint is very high level and covers the same information contained in the user's manuals that are available from Microsoft's website.

I was expecting this book to get into greater detail about a real-world implementation plan, including ideas on how to programmatically migrate an existing set of documents into a new SharePoint Portal, but no such luck. Instead, it breezes through each of the features, devoting little more than a paragraph per feature to explain how things work.

It appears that the SharePoint information was thrown in at the last minute so that it could be one of the first books claiming to cover SharePoint. Save your money and wait for one of the other books that are scheduled to be release over the next few months.

I bought this book when it first came out, and we used it as our guide to implement Exchange 2000 for our 3,500-employee company (7 domestic sites / 3 int'l sites). We just completed our migration last week and I don't think we could have done it without this book! Not sure what the other reviews were referencing since the time I bought this book (possibly SharePoint which we did not implement), but the Exchange 2000 information was rock solid! Excellent book, I highly recommend it!

If you want to know what topics to consider for an E2k deployment, they're probably all mentioned here. If you want to know any details about those topics, there wasn't room. I had high hopes after listening to Mr. Morimoto's Microsoft webcast, but no more information is to be found here than the brief mentions he made. An example is found on p. 59, where five considerations for sizing and installation are listed. "These areas are detailed in the 'Best Practice Recommendations' section," it says; the details amount to only nine lines, simply re-listing the topics. Disappointing.

Has to be the best planning, design, and migration documentation I've seen to date to help organizations migrate from Exchange v5.5 to Exchange 2000. Very easy to follow, and produced successful results for our organization! At the same time, we wanted to play with Sharepoint Portal server and Digital Dashboards. We had our first Sharepoint server up and running and connected to our WAN while we waited for our Exchange mailboxes to convert to Exchange 2000. I highly recommend this book!

At the going used price ... , this book is probably worth buying as a reference for exchange server. However, it is the worst of the sharepoint books - only two basic chapters are devoted to Sharepoint.

This book is well written and an interesting read. I don't need to know a whole lot on Conference Server and SharePoint, but it was interesting stuff to read over. The book did help me with a problem in implementing an Instant Messaging set up too. Overall a nice book!