Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies [Paperback]

Vanessa L. Williams (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470099410 | ISBN-13: 978-0470099414 | Publication Date: April 9, 2007 | Edition: 1

• Microsoft SharePoint now has a 10 percent share of the portal market, and the new release, which features enhanced integration with Office 2007, is sure to give SharePoint a boost
• Offers clear instructions and soup-to-nuts coverage of this complex product, focusing instead on practical solutions to real-world SharePoint challenges
• Features tips, tricks, and techniques for administrators who need to install and configure a SharePoint portal as well as ordinary users who need to populate and maintain the portal and use it for collaborative projects
• Topics covered include setting up a SharePoint portal, matching SharePoint to business needs, managing portal content, branding, collaborating on SharePoint sites, using a portal to improve employee relations and marketing, putting expense reports and other interactive forms on a portal, and monitoring and backing up SharePoint

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From the Back Cover

Match SharePoint to your specific business needs

The fun and easy way® to deploy SharePoint in your business today!

Are you stymied by SharePoint? This plain-English guide offers simple instructions and focused coverage of this powerful tool, giving you practical solutions to real-world SharePoint challenges. You'll install SharePoint, create sites and grant access, manage data and business processes, use sites to improve employee relations and marketing, put interactive reports and forms on a portal, and much more!

• Set up a SharePoint portal

• Manage portal content and Office documents

• Integrate Office 2007 with SharePoint

• Use SharePoint to collaborate

• Create personalized sites

• Monitor and back up your portal

About the Author

Vanessa Williams is an author and consultant specializing in SharePoint technologies. She helps organizations, technology professionals, and end users find meaningful uses for technologies, such as SharePoint, Office 2007, Visual Studio, and the .NET Framework.
Vanessa grew up in Indianapolis, where she graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Computer Information Systems. She still lives in Indy, about three miles south of downtown in the wonderful Garfield Park South neighborhood.
In her spare time, Vanessa likes to read books about sociology, religion, spirituality, and current affairs. She enjoys hiking, traveling, and spending time with her family, including her two dogs Rosie and Buffy. She also enjoys staying current on enterprise technologies and consumer electronics. Vanessa loves to talk about SharePoint. You can contact her via her Web site at www.sharepointgrrl.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (April 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470099410
• ISBN-13: 978-0470099414
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > Computers & Technology > Networking > Intranets & Extranets
  • #37 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Networking

More About the Author

I am also the author of the two previous editions (2003 & 2007) of Microsoft SharePoint For Dummies. SharePoint 2010 For Dummies is a labor of love; I've used SharePoint since its relative infancy, and it's exciting to see the product mature and become robust and end-user-centric. With this edition I've made a real effort to sideline the technical stuff and focus on what the business user needs and wants to know.

In "real life" I live in Indianapolis with my partner and our dogs Rosie and Ringo and one beleaguered cat, Ruby. I do freelance consulting in the SharePoint/web content space, helping clients ranging from small companies with 20 users to Fortune 200 enterprises to solve their business problems with innovative human-scaled solutions.

Read more about me on my website, SharePointGrrl (http://sharepointgrrl.com) or my blog (http://techgrrl.wordpress.com).

Customer Reviews

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better for the Administrator, September 12, 2007

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Jean Marrapodi "Jean Marrapodi" (Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (Paperback)

This book is great for the SharePoint administrator. Unfortunately, I'm the user creating and populating the sites rather than installing the server. There are a few sections for the user at my level, but I'd anticipated a Dummies book wouldn't be for the techies. I also wish it had more screen shots to demonstrate things, but I suppose it would wind up becoming a 1000 page book then. It's fine for what it is, and I did pick up some tips, so it wasn't a complete waste for me. I found SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform to be a bit more practical for my needs. I still haven't found THE training resource I need to help others utilize SharePoint the way it was intended.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars SharePoint 2007 For Dummies, June 27, 2007

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mrh@soundtransit (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (Paperback)

I ordered this text with the intent of creating and modifying team sharepoint sites. Primarily "end-user" kind of work, however this text is far more technical than what I need. It is more for system administrator, not site administrator. I have since ordered "Sharepoint Designer X for Dummies". I think that will be more what I am looking for but it is not yet available.
Review Submitted 6/27/07

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars CAVEAT *** NOT for end users, August 19, 2008

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G. Morgan "gmorgan61" (Glendale, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (Paperback)

This book matches the clear, concise, and practical style of all the "Dummies" books and might be very good for those who are installing, configuring, or developing SharePoint sites. However, it was not until I reached page 4 that I finally was advised that "This book isn't really intended for end users." That advisory should have appeared on page 1, or better yet, on the book's front cover. If you are an end user who is merely trying to learn how to use SharePoint's various functions, you might want to look for an actual "user's guide," e.g., Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users ... (etc).