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SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the next generation of Microsoft SharePoint technologies. These products expand on SharePoints information-sharing and collaboration capabilities, which allow you to create true enterprise information management, information sharing, and collaboration solutions.

SharePoint 2007 Users Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform is the follow-up edition to the successful SharePoint 2003 Users Guide (Apress, 2005). This book provides guidance about the new workflows, interface, and other technologies within SharePoint 2007. Authors Seth Bates and Tony Smith describe SharePoint in a variety of environments, and have the expertise and ability to stand behind this useful guidecatered to anyone who works with SharePoint technologies in any capacity.

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.682
EAN: 9781590598290
ISBN: 1590598296
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 425
Publication Date: 2007-02-26
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress


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SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
• Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
• Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers
• Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Programmer to Programmer)
• Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: not much help for SharePoint Designer
Comment: I needed more help for Designer than was offered. This was more for a server.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Best book on the market for users?
Comment: I'm an IT manager and SharePoint user. I'm not a SharePoint administrator, designer, or developer. I bought this book to learn how to better utilize SharePoint and learn more about the different things you can do with SharePoint.

I found the book to have a wealth of information of the type I needed. Like a lot of technical books it is difficult to read cover to cover. It presents a lot of information, much of which is repetitive since each follow on option repeats many of the same steps. It is more suited as a reference than as a book to read. I would have given it 3 stars for just being hard to read but I believe it is currently the best option for people wanting to learn to use SharePoint. The book has a lot of screenshots and step by step instructions for setting up different portals, libraries, and lists. What is missing is a good discussion of each type of information repository and why you would use each. I also was looking for specific examples of how to implement things like a documentation library. At the end of the day I got the information I was looking for but only after reading through the book and experimenting with SharePoint. I suppose that's the best way to learn anyway...

Customer Rating:
Summary: Why bother?
Comment: I had hoped this book would be different than most other SharePoint books (indeed, the majority of computer books) whose production process seems to follow this technique: (1) paraphrase the online help in the program (2) add screen shots (3) repeat for several hundred pages (4) kill trees. It isn't. I have encountered several issues in MOSS, and since tech support has been severely cut back at my office, there is no one knowledgeable to help troubleshoot those cases where you think you've followed the instructions to achieve a particular result -- yet you don't get it. This superficial book is NO help. I feel I could have written it myself. But I would feel guilty having written it because it doesn't add much value. Two stars for decent organization, page layout and production values.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Okay but wordy
Comment: There are several books available for SharePoint installers and admins and designers, but there really aren't many out there for end users. This is one of the few, and it does cover most of the important subjects. It has a few shortcomings:
+ The language is not very approachable. Long sentences, tedious writing, and a bit too formal.
+ It makes assumptions about user permissions. It often says, "You can do x, y, and z," but the truth is that the user has to have the right permissions in SharePoint to do all those things.
+ The screenshots have no callouts, so you have to study them closely to find what's important.
+ The authors take the old-style documentation approach, in which they describe the program in great detail, but rarely tell you how to use the program to accomplish real world tasks. For example, they frequently mention that document workspaces allow for collaboration, but never tell you what that collaboration might look like.

Despite those shortcomings I'm giving the book a generous 4 stars because I did learn about SharePoint by reading it. If your environment also includes Office 2007, you might want to wait for the end-user book by Vanessa L. Williams in the For Dummies series (NOT "SharePoint 2007 for Dummies," which is for admins.)


Customer Rating:
Summary: Overly verbose
Comment: I found this book to have an overly verbose and repetitive writing style, reading almost like an advertisement for SharePoint. I kept thinking to myself `get to the point'. If you enjoy reading for reading's sake you might enjoy this book. However, if you are looking for tips and tricks to becoming SharePoint wizard you'll find yourself bogged down in the long-winded passages and begging for more substance.

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