Product Description

<>SharePoint provides a cost-effective, easy-to-implement solution for organizations interested in enhancing team collaboration, document management, and search functionality and in providing a portal to access corporate resources and intranet/extranet environments. The SharePoint 2007 family (consisting of Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) build upon these features and toolsets and introduce a staggering array of new tools and capabilities that undeniably make SharePoint 2007 an enterprise-class solution.

 

This new edition walks IT professionals, website designers, SharePoint administrators, and SharePoint power users through the design, implementation, and customization process. Exciting new capabilities such as workflow, records management, web content management, business processes, and business intelligence features are covered in depth. Best practices are provided for planning the architecture, scaling to meet the organization’s needs, migrating from SharePoint 2003, and managing the farm or multi-farm environment.

 

Part I: SharePoint 2007 Overview, Planning, and Implementation provides an introduction to SharePoint 2007 technologies and covers the architecture process. Details on installing SharePoint 2007 and processes for migrating from SharePoint 2003 are included.

 

Part II: Using SharePoint 2007 Technologies covers the core feature set of SharePoint 2007 that power users and administrators will need to master, including libraries, lists, designing and managing pages, workspaces, and sites.

 

Part III: Managing a SharePoint Environment provides best practices on managing and administering the SharePoint infrastructure, securing the environment, maintaining and managing the environment and databases, and backing up and restoring the SharePoint 2007 environment.

 

Part IV: Extending the SharePoint Environment goes into detail on the topics of configuring email-enabled content, Exchange Server integration, enabling presence information with Office Communication Server 2007, and securing remote access with ISA Server 2006. In addition, chapters are included on using SharePoint Designer 2007.

 

Introduction

Part I SharePoint 2007 Overview, Planning, and Implementation

1 Introducing SharePoint 2007

2 Planning and Architecting a SharePoint 2007 Deployment

3 Planning Redundancy and Scaling the SharePoint Environment

4 Planning the SharePoint 2007 User Environment

5 Installing Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

6 Migrating from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007 

Part II Using SharePoint 2007 Technologies

7 Using Libraries and Lists in SharePoint 2007

8 Managing Libraries and Lists in SharePoint 2007

9 Designing and Managing Pages, Workspaces, and Sites in SharePoint 2007 

10 Using Word, Excel, and Excel Services with SharePoint 2007 335 

11 Leveraging Additional Office 2007 Products in a SharePoint 2007 Environment 

12 Implementing Records Management and Enabling Web Content Management in SharePoint 2007

13 Benefiting from the Enhanced Search Capabilities in SharePoint 2007

14 Managing and Administering SharePoint Infrastructure

15 Securing a SharePoint Environment 

16 Maintaining and Monitoring SharePoint 2007 Environments and Databases

17 Backing Up and Restoring a SharePoint Environment

Part IV Extending the SharePoint Environment

18 Configuring Email-Enabled Content and Exchange Server Integration 

19 Enabling Presence Information in SharePoint with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

20 Providing Secured Remote Access to SharePoint Using ISA Server 2006

21 Using Designer 2007 to Extend SharePoint 2007 Workflows and Customize the User Experience

22 Exploring Business Process and Business Intelligence Features in SharePoint 2007

Index

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23094 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 840 pages

About the Author

Michael Noel, MCITP: Michael has been involved in the computer industry for nearly two decades, and has significant real-world experience helping organizations realize business value from information technology infrastructure. Michael has authored several major best-selling industry books translated into 10 languages, with a total worldwide circulation of more than 250,000 copies.  Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, and many more.  Currently a partner at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay area, Michael's writings and worldwide public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise designing, deploying, and administering IT infrastructure for his clients.

  

Colin Spence, MCP: Colin is a partner at Convergent Computing and performs in the roles of senior consultant, project manager, and technical writer for the organization. He focuses on the design, implementation, and support of Microsoft-based technology solutions, with a current focus on Microsoft SharePoint technologies. He has more than 17 years of experience providing a wide range of IT-related services to a wide range of organizations. He is a co-author of Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, which has become a bestseller on the subject, and Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes. He has also contributed to several other Sams Publishing titles on Microsoft technologies.

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Customer Reviews

Starting from nothing
I found this book immensely helpful as a complete novice. Knowing nothing about SharePoint in any flavor this book filled in the gaps. It did not take long before I was able to get a Sharepoint site up and running effectively. I have been in the computer industry as a developer for 20+ years, which makes the detail coverage of the architecture and services involved just right for me. Once you get familiar with the product you will probably want to pursue a pure reference/maintenance book.

Didn't help me very much
Despite the praise by others (and that is why I bought it), I was disappointed to find that this book is like many other computer books these days: a lengthy but shallow description of the product that it covers, but with little insight into the practical problems or the non-obvious aspects of the product. There was very little in this book that I had not already figured out by simply sitting down and using SharePoint for a few hours.

Instead of devoting hundreds of pages to showing you what is in the product and simply repeating much of what you can find in the help text, I would have liked (and was expecting) *insight*, but found little.

Here's one example: I created a new page in SharePoint and added some web parts to it. You don't need this book to tell you how to do that - it's all explained in the help text, or is enough logical that you can easily figure it out with a little experimenting. With a little more reading of the help text you can also figure out how the Filter web parts work, which are very useful and powerful. But one type of Filter is called a List Filter, and the help text just gives a 2-sentence explanation of what it does, which wasn't enough for me to figure it out how to use it. And that's all this book provides, too. For an expensive book to just repeat what you can see simply by running the product is of no value to me - or anyone. I would have liked at least a page that shows how the List Filter part works, a brief example, and a paragraph describing the limitations (of which there are some, and they are important to know).

I could provide many similar illustrations, but you get the idea. It really seemed to me that this book was written by someone who hadn't spent much time actually using SharePoint for any serious purpose.

And this book is not alone. I have purchased or paged through several other competing books on SharePoint and they suffer the same defect.

Summary: If you are just starting out with SharePoint, the 2007 version of the product is reasonably self-explanatory, at least if you have a logical mind and are willing to spend a little time experimenting and consulting the help text. This book adds little to that. And once you are beyond that point, this book adds nothing. It's your time and money.

Very detailed
My teacher recommended this book and it's now my bible. I just started building a WSS 3.0 environment and the book explains each feature in detail. Also, the author includes what that feature couldn't do in Sharepoint 2003 and the extras added in MOSS. So you learn the past, present and future of each feature. Great job explaining the whole picture.