Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out [Paperback]

Errin O'Connor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 29, 2007

Dig in—and learn how the experts use Windows SharePoint Services 3.0—from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds—all in concise, fast-answer format. You will learn how to simplify information sharing, make team collaboration more efficient, and improve your personal productivity. You’ll discover how to design workflows and projects for SharePoint sites, manage design teams and source control, and use cascading style sheets to control site appearance. You’ll get to explore new features for using Windows SharePoint Services with blogs, RSS, and wikis. You’ll even learn how to use Windows SharePoint Services with other products, including Excel® Services, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, and Microsoft Visual Studio® Team System. Plus, the companion CD comes packed with the complete eBook, the Windows Vista™ Product Guide eReference, and plenty of custom resources. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!

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From the Publisher

Key Book Benefits:

-Makes hundreds of tips, tricks, and workarounds easy to find and apply with the award-winning INSIDE OUT format
-Drills into the features and functions in Windows SharePoint Services, delivering comprehensive details--but no fluff--in a single volume
-Includes a companion CD with tools, eBooks, and more

From the Author

Jim Buyens is the author of Microsoft Office FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out and Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out. He is the senior PC-LAN administrator for AG Communication Systems, a leading provider of telecommunications switching equipment and software. An early champion of TCP/IP applications and connectivity, Jim was an architect for a coast-to-coast corporate network with over 25 Microsoft Windows NT®-based servers and 1000 client PCs.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (December 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735623236
• ISBN-13: 978-0735623231
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Errin O'Connor is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer for EPC Group. Errin focuses his efforts on implementing Microsoft Technologies in organizations throughout the country. Errin manages EPC Group's corporate strategy as well as architects the proven methodologies around collaboration, enterprise content management \ records management, and custom application development that have set EPC Group apart from its competitors.

Errin is the author of SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out by Microsoft Press \ O'Reilly Media and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out by Microsoft Press. He has completed more than 140 highly successful individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with some of the largest organizations in the United States.

Errin is also the founder of WebPartGallery.com an online solutions provider of SharePoint web parts and custom solutions and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft SharePoint events throughout the United States and Canada. Errin has spoken at over 100 SharePoint related events in the past 18 months. Errin also has a passion for working with Department of Defense (DoD) related clients to ensure technology can continue to improve the mission of our nation's warfighters.

Errin can also be followed via:

Twitter @errinoconnor
AIIM.ORG - SharePoint Expert Blogger
Focus.com - SharePoint Expert Articles Page

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, January 24, 2008

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techie t - See all my reviews

This review is from: Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out (Paperback)

I was looking forward to the release of this book having had good success with other MS Inside Out books. The author mostly repeats what is obvious when viewing configuration pages without providing much in the way of additional, anecdotal information that would help explain the various settings.

The section on backups using the stsadm utility is frustrating as the author keeps repeating the location of stsadm for 32 and 64 bit versions, which happen to be located in the same directory for both. I count 14 times within 5 pages using 4 lines each time. I couldn't help but feel he was getting paid by the word and trying to fill the pages.

The book would be most useful as a quick reference guide or if you are considering using WSS 3.0 and want quick facts regarding it's features.

If you want to buy only one book on the subject of SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 'Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed' is the one I recommend.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SharePoint Inside Out, February 28, 2008

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Derek in Vancouver Area (Vancouver, B.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out (Paperback)

Excellent book, well presented, well written. Either for a front-to-back tutorial, or for dipping into for actual details, this book helps cut through the fog created by bloggers, badly-written books and other useless dross that so often clutters up this type of product.

And while I have your ear, there should be a "Law Of The Internet" that says you have to date-stamp informational pages so that unsuspecting persons don't think they are getting good information, when in fact it is several years (or versions) out of date!

Just a rant.

DD

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read SharePoint Book, January 26, 2008

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Steven Lomos "MOSS GURU" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out (Paperback)

I just finshed this book and I have about 10 pages of notes that I created over the past 2 weeks of reading this book. The author is a SharePoint consultant and not a trainer so it give great perspective of what is really happening within a Sharepoint project. I am very impressed at the insight that is given here. This book will help you do it right the first time. I will be giving this to my Sharepoint administrator for him to read next.