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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices 1st Edition

by Ben Curry (Author), Bill English (Author)
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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Get field-tested best practices and proven techniques for designing, deploying, operating, and optimizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part of the new Best Practices series for IT professionals from Microsoft Press®, this guide is written by leading SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint team members who’ve worked extensively with real-world deployments and customers. You’ll find out how to deploy the software, design your environment, manage content, analyze and view data, perform disaster recovery, monitor performance, and more. You'll learn how to create SharePoint sites that help your organization collaborate, take advantage of business insights, and improve productivity—with practical insights from the experts.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0735625387
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0735625389
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Microsoft Press
  5. Publication date
    July 12, 2008
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.5 x 2 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    800 pages
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About the Author

Ben Curry, MCP, MCTS, CISSP, is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server, and a network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. He is the author of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Pocket Consultant.

Bill English, MCTS, MVP, MCT, is an author and educator specializing in SharePoint technologies. He runs a leading training and consulting company, has written more than 10 books, and speaks at the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference, Comdex, and other events.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 1st edition (July 12, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 800 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735625387
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735625389
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 2 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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    My name is Bill English. I've spent over 30 years starting, growing, and managing businesses. I have a deep desire to know what the Bible has to say about owning and running a business. I know what it's like to be swimming in so much cash that it's difficult to know what to do with it all. I also know what it's like to wake up at night, in panic, knowing I can't meet payroll in a day or two. I understand what it takes to build a profitable business and the many ways an owner can unwittingly kill his business.

    I write for Christians who own businesses and Christians who lead for-profit businesses but are not the owners. God has called me to a niche audience - that really isn't so niched. I estimate, in America alone, there are over 2M Christians who own businesses. If we could ask them, "Would you like to use your business for Jesus Christ?", I bet 95% would say, "Yes!" Then they would ask, "How do I do this?" My books and blogs are my attempts to answer that question.

    As you can see from the numerous technical book on this page, I was pretty active in the SharePoint vertical for a number of years. But I changed careers in 2014 and focus now on turning unprofitable businesses into profitable ventures and writing all that I can learn from the Bible about being a business owner and leader.

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Michael Starr
5.0 out of 5 stars LOL
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020
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2007? Wow. Look at Amazon being the digital packrat. So in all honesty this was a good book. I dont even own tech books anymore, I found this interconnected set of computers. They form a giant interconnected web. All I need to know is out there plug pictures of cats and fail videos.

Anyway, this book went the way of most of my other computer books. Used most of them for starter fuel for campfires. Actually led to an awkward discussion on the proper way to burn books...which of course ends up feeling a little uneasy given the historical references there. Anyway....great book.
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Nitpicker 99
3.0 out of 5 stars Not the valuable resource I was hoping for
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2010
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It's become just one more place to look with the hope of finding answers. Quoting its introduction: "This is not a how-to book....[and will not teach you to] to install, configure, or administrate Sharepoint Server 2007..."

A page earlier, the book said: "...if you're responsible for designing, implementing, configuring, or managing a Sharepoint Server 2007 deployment, this book is for you..."

So don't make this your first, second or maybe even third book on Sharepoint. Make it your fourth. It does have some good material on necessary cultural shifts, etc.
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janicet123
5.0 out of 5 stars The book I wish I had when I started administering SharePoint
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2008
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This was the only technical book I have ever read cover to cover. I found all of the information in here absolutely applicable and relevant to real-world implementation of SharePoint 2007. Ben Curry covers not only the best practices, but give examples of how these practices work in real companies. There are also mentions of "gotchas" and a number of excellently explained examples. He explains SharePoint-specific terminology and not only how to implement a particular feature of Sharepoint, but the WHY behind it.

This is definitely the book I wish I had when I first started using SharePoint. It is a compilation of all the topics that are continuously blogged about by all the experts.

A definite must-read for any SharePoint Administrator!
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lan_man
5.0 out of 5 stars SharePoint 2007
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2013
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Helped me greatly when I was thrust into a situation where I was expected to administer the server and had never used SharePoint before, a great supplement for System Administrators.
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Lelli
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2015
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Very in depth and good reference book. Nice to have when I have an issue with SharePoint
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Glenn
4.0 out of 5 stars A must for the initial design phase
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2009
Do not under estimate the amount of up front planning you need to deploy sharepoint. I have not found many resources that adequately guide you through the process. Every installation is different and the standard Microsoft material is to generic to be useful.

This book describes the pitfalls and suggests real life scenarios in which to help better guide you. This book you will give Architects and Designers a good grounding in how the technology should be used and some of its pit falls. It is NOT a step by step how to install Sharepoint guise. In fact I do not think there is one of those even though we would all love to have one.
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Piscus
5.0 out of 5 stars Piscus
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2011
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This guy is brilliant and the book is a must have for any person working with SharePoint. Looking forward for the SharePoint 2010 Best practices!
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MikeW
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book for reading a section at a time
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2008
My own Sharepoint 2007 book came out recently and so I have been constantly checking the Amazon US "hit parade" to see how it's been doing.

Well it's doing OK, but the book which at the moment seems to be selling in vast quantities is this MOSS 2007 Best Practices book.

Now I'll admit that before I got a copy for myself I was hard put to understand why. After all this was a book by the two people (Bill English and Ben Curry) who had (organised or) written the two existing Sharepoint Administrator Books from Microsoft Press - the massive (and, through the many authors, slightly unbalanced) Administrator's Companion and the small, but full of quality information "Administrator's Pocket Consultant - so what else could there be in this one ?

Actually there's a lot because this is probably a completely different book to any of the - by now almost 100 - SharePoint 2007 books that have gone before.

It's probably the first one that you can **and should** read without having a computer handy.

The book doesn't concentrate on teaching you how to do things - which is naturally what most of the other books do - but instead concentrates on making you THINK. Think, that is, about your options BEFORE you do things.

The other thing I've noticed is that it's the kind of book where you can dive into a topic that's maybe only a part of a section of a chapter and read just that and you will have learned something useful.

My favorite example of that is the few pages in the Document Management chapter that discuss whether or not you should use SharePoint (document libraries) as a replace for a File Server system. First there's the single line with the answer (No) but that's followed by some indication of what could be moved and what not and why. These are inter-spaced with several in-boxes containing examples from the real-world - one of which to my delight (and this IS a Microsoft Press book) actually suggested that in certain circumstances you should keep your non-Microsoft application and NOT move to SharePoint 2007!

In fact the only thing I found to object to in that section of the text was the fact that whereas "SharePoint Server" had been given its "2007" to complete the product name (unnecessary - there isn't any other "SharePoint Server"), Windows SharePoint Services had been left without it's (essential) "3.0". This comment, however, is rather like the car tests of old where the car was highly praised in all essential details but for balance it was mentioned that the ash tray was badly located!

The only other aspect I have a problem with is that it is 800 pages thick. As it's the kind of book that in my opinion you should carry around with you and just read bits of in odd moments, it's a pity that it's not thinner and lighter and is instead the size and weight of book that is more suited to being permanently located on the desk next to the computer.

Microsoft Press France actually did make two volumes out of the 1000 page Administrator's Companion when they created the French language translation of that, so it's possible and it's a pity to my mind that Microsoft Press US didn't make two volumes out of this. It would need those two 400 page volumes because there is good stuff throughout, but to my mind this book cries out to be as easy to carry around as the Pocket Consultant is and it isn't.

Maybe they are planning a Kindle version. That would at least help US readers take this "book" with them everywhere.
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Eric Gail
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr gutes Buch zu Sharepoint -trifft den Kern Organisationsprojekte
Reviewed in Germany on August 30, 2012
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Wenn man die Bereitstellung und Infrastrukturthemen durch hat, eine hochverfügbare stabile Plattform erzeugt hat, geht es um das Wie des Sharepoint.
Sharepoint Projekte sind keine Technikprojekte - in erster Linie handelt es sich um Organisationsprojekte, irgendetwas verändert sich im Unternehmen, endlich anders, besser zusammen arbeiten.
Die Regelen kann man hier nachlesen!
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Mr. S. Jeffery
5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2008
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This book closes the gap.

The gap between installing SharePoint, and successfully deploying it in your environment.

You will soon realise that there is way more than next, next, finish in a MOSS implementation!

Good luck to all, and I recommend a 'short plank' for the laggards!
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Hassan
3.0 out of 5 stars good but.....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2011
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I have more than six years in SharePoint but after reading this book I realized it does not carry all the best practices, why talk more about basic installation and confgurations when you are to give best practices. I was personally looking more best practices toward security configurations, search settings, front-end to SQL setup for good enough handle of user requests on large farms. A lot of stuff is missing but if you are starting up and you have done the beginner level stuff then go for this book it will be good for you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2009
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Wonderfully written book. Everything you need to know including project and development techniques for those new to these areas.

Comprehensive, easy to read, and thorough
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