Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers

by Jeff Webb

If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform. Essential SharePoint 2007 demonstrates how your business can use SharePoint to control documents, structure workflow, and share information over the Web using standard tools business users already know -- Microsoft Office...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596514077
• ISBN13: 9780596514075
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Complete and concise

This book is well-written and covers a good range of SharePoint topics. I find it more readable than "The Definitive Guide" (Pyles et al.), another O'Reilly book on the subject. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison of topics covered, but I would definitely recommend reading this one first if you're new to SharePoint.

Sharepoint for Comprehensive Enterprise-wide Intranet

Effective planning for a Sharepoint MOSS 2007 rollout is best addressed in Essential Sharepoint. The "High-Impact" subtitle is the key - this book methodically enforces the principal purpose of MOSS - Communication, Collaboration, Consolidation and Consistency - through a conscientious introduction in Chapters 1-3 followed by implementation aspects in Chapters 4-13. Appendix A guides you through most common Sharepoint tasks and provides fodder for your own User Manual. This book especially assist in Enterprise-wide intranet development. It helps ensure that you develope governance strategies and thoroughly plan. The result is a comprehensive technology worker dashboard for continuous data/document access and organization-wide collaboration at its best.