Customer Reviews

Microsoft SharePoint 2003: Interactive Training Course DVD-ROM

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This is a great learning aid. Takes you from scratch to quite advanced SPS/WSS administration and customization quickly if you go straight at it, or a little at a time if that's all the time you have. Andre's presentation style is relaxed and idiosynchratic, and adds enormously to the rate at which concepts are picked up. I have often been disappointed by the depth of knowledge that some 'trainers' actually have, but this package is supported by vast in-depth knowledge of the product. My only gripe is that I had to solve a major no-show problem with the Virtual PC image (provided with the training DVD) without support. Pilothouse Consulting recommend 512MB of RAM minimum and were surprised to hear that I was running Virtual PC on a standalone (??). With an upgrade to 1GB and the full retail version of Virtual PC (trial version ships with the DVD) I was on the road - on a standalone. All-in-all, though, no regrets. Hugely useful training package and well recommended.

The author manages to get straight to the point on most all the subjects and can have you coding your own webparts and WSS2 based apps in a short amount of time. The class seems aimed at the developer for the most part but admins would also benefit from the under-the-covers look at Sharepoint 2003. Over all great job.

I liked how the course started from basics and then built up to
administration and development. Topics covered were relevant to our intranet site. Presentation was clear and concise followed by demos which were very in depth. Also, step by step labs helped reinforce what I just learned.

There are some many sides to this product and this DVD really helped me connect the dots.

The video tutorials are good but I could not install/use virtual PC training tutorials. It gives all sorts of errors on XP SP2.

This is a great training item for Sharepoint. Perhaps my favorite thing about its design is the ease of which you can go back and review specific subjects. The presentations flow smoothly one from another, yet they are well segmented so that you can pick a specific topic of interest and review it. The table of contents directs you to each subject matter and the presentations are full of good information, not just theory.

This course is great if you have no idea about SPS 2003, as it starts from very simple things and then goes up to really tough things (handling XML files manually can be really hard without a guide).

There's a lot to cover in all this subject, and the DVD covers quite a lot of stuff, so overall the course was very good, so for me it was quite interesting, as I didn't know anything about SPS 2003.

I took Andre's class in Las vegas and he is a wonderfull instructor! His teaching habbits are very gracefull and keep you paying attention! I went from knowing nothing about sharepoint to building my own sharepoint portal at my company that more than 50 users access daily. I cant say enough about Andre, he is truly a great instructor. If your thinking about taking a sharepoint class look no further, this is the real deal!!