SharePoint 2007 Book Reviews
Not all SharePoint 2007 books are created equally. As more SharePoint 2007 books become available, it’s not always easy to determine which books are worth while and which ones are not so much… The SharePoint Users Group (TheSUG.org) web site provides a list of all published SharePoint 2007 books, reviews and ratings. See how others have rated these SharePoint 2007 books and read valuable feedback. Please provide ratings and feedback on any SharePoint 2007 books you have read.
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08/12/2008
  Featuring step-by-step details on building interactive Web pages, this solutions-oriented resource covers all of the powerful features available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007--the all-new website creation and administration tool. You will learn how to design and customize portals; add multimedia content; integrate interactive forms, guestbooks, and databases; and administer SharePoint-enabled websites. 04/29/2008
  Web sites. Collaboration. Document management. Paperless offices. We want it all in business today, but how do you achieve all of these goals? More importantly, if you work for one of the millions of small to medium–sized businesses, how do you find the time and build the expertise necessary to reach these goals? Even the most powerful tool will not allow you to succeed unless you can get the majority of your staff to use it efficiently and effectively. You need a guide that demonstrates a platform small to medium–sized businesses can use to reach these goals.
Office and SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word demystifies the path every Microsoft Office user can follow to benefit from the synergism of tools they are already familiar with. Together with SharePoint 2007, users can achieve goals like web sites with a consistent single view, improved collaboration within their organization, better document management, and maybe even get one step closer to the paperless office we’ve been promised for years. This book has topics for Office users of all skill levels, from those just starting to use Office tools to the experienced power user. It examines each major Office tool and shows how it contributes to the support and use of SharePoint in today’s increasingly electronic–based office environment. 04/05/2008
  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. 03/09/2008
  * The first book to focus on SharePoint Server as a robust platform for Web content * Written by two SharePoint MVPs, this book walks developers through creating a Web content management platform on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 * Begins with an overview of the various features of MOSS, Web Content Management (WCM) fundamentals, and the services available on the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) platform * Examines each aspect of a typical development project using the sample site throughout, which demonstrates key points, design elements, and development approaches * Addresses SharePoint site columns, content types, master pages, and page layouts; creating a minimal SharePoint site definition; and creating WSS solution packages with Visual Studio * Also covers field types and field controls, customizing the SharePoint authoring environment, and authentication and authorization 03/05/2008
  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.
03/05/2008
  This is the most comprehensive, practical guide to building enterpriseclass applications with SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual C# 2005, and the Microsoft Office 2007 system. Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed is designed for every working .NET developer: both those with SharePoint experience and those new to SharePoint. The authors thoroughly introduce SharePoint 2007 as a development platform and offer in-depth, example-rich coverage of every significant tool for programmers--from “Features and Solutions” to list events, from user profiles to Web Parts. You’ll walk step-by-step through building each major type of SharePoint application. You’ll also find in-depth coverage of SharePoint 2007’s rich collection of built-in Web services, including services for building document workspaces, centralizing the management of Excel spreadsheets, ensuring security, and much more.
Detailed information on how to…
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Use CAML, SharePoint’s XML-based language for defining content, manipulating searches, and more
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Work with the SharePoint Object Model
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Build reusable packages for easy deployment to SharePoint server farms
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Program SharePoint webs, sites, document libraries, and files
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Leverage SharePoint 2007’s improved lists and new list events
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Manipulate and query meetings and Meeting Workspaces
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Integrate external business data into SharePoint applications
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Construct business workflows for enterprise content management and other applications
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Program ASP.NET-based SharePoint Web Parts, from the basics to state-of-the-art techniques
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Create Web Parts that can provide and consume data through connections
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Use SharePoint 2007’s built-in Web services for managing document and Meeting Workspaces, imaging, and lists
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Centralize spreadsheet storage and management with Excel Services
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Manage user profiles and enhance application security
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Debug and deploy SharePoint 2007 applications
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Work with Records Repositories and metadata 01/21/2008
  The Exploring series helps students master the How and Why of performing tasks in Office to gain a greater understanding of how to use the individual applications together to solve business problems. Exploring titles feature Perfect pages where every step of every hands-on exercise as well as every end-of-chapter problem begins on a new page and has its own screen shot to make it easier to follow. Each chapter contains Hands-on Exercises, Capstone Exercises, and Mini-Cases for practicing and reviewing skills acquired 01/21/2008
 
Book Description
Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 addresses what IT professionals need to know to create collaborative solutions with the tool. It covers the tricky installation procedures and the features of the new version. The book assumes the readers have experience with the previous version of the software, and therefore do not need to dwell on basic instruction. It covers administration, customization, disaster recovery and migrating from version 2 to version 3, with detailed real-world examples to solidify the instruction. From the Back Cover
Master This Powerful Collaboration Tool for Windows Server® Networks
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 is the latest version of the collaboration tool found in Windows Server 2003 R2—a feature-rich product that can be deployed to help you manage and improve information-sharing across your company's network. WSS 3.0 is also the underlying technology of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
Now with this comprehensive book as your point-by-point guide, you'll go under the hood of WSS 3.0 and discover how to make it easy to share documents, track tasks, create common workspaces where teams can work collectively, set up surveys and discussion groups, and more.
The book provides step-by-step coverage of what system administrators need to know, including essential techniques for site creation, administration, customization, security, and disaster recovery—plus pages of detailed, real-world examples. You'll also find practical steps for migrating from version 2.0 to 3.0.
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Understanding the basics of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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Adding, moving, removing, and customizing web parts
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Creating pre-built and new custom lists
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Setting up libraries for documents, pictures, forms, and wikis
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Checking documents in and out—and managing checked files
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Using global breadcrumbs to get back to where you started
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Managing security and permissions
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Backing up and restoring SQL databases, lists, libraries, and more
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Migrating from SharePoint Services 2.0 to 3.0
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Create Information-Sharing Solutions across People and Documents
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Set up and Use WSS 3.0 Basic, Stand-alone Server, or Server Farm
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Perform Administrative Tasks with STSADM.EXE
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Add, Extend, or Remove Virtual Web Servers
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Manage Security and Permissions 01/09/2008
  The smart way to learn Office SharePoint Designer 2007 one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting tips to master the fundamentals of building customized SharePoint sites and applications. You ll learn how to work with Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create Web pages complete with Cascading Style Sheets, Lists, Libraries, and customized Web parts. Then, make your site really work for you by adding data sources, including databases, XML data and Web services, and RSS feeds. You ll even learn how to create workflows and applications with custom forms, templates, and dashboards to enhance your team s productivity. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction, building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes an easy-search companion CD with hands-on practice files, a complete eBook, and more!
Key Book Benefits:
Includes coverage of the fundamentals for building custom SharePoint sites and applications to enhance your productivity
Covers Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007
Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises
Includes an easy-search companion CD with practice files, a complete eBook, and other resources
01/09/2008
  Learn everything you need to know for working with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Version 3.0. This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using and getting the most out of Windows SharePoint Services. You will learn how to simplify information sharing, make team collaboration more efficient, and improve your personal productivity. Youll 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. Youll get to explore new features for using Windows SharePoint Services with blogs, RSS, and wikis. Youll even learn how to use Windows SharePoint Services with other products. 01/02/2008
 
The essential guide for implementing Microsoft Office as an application-development platform
Get the practical guide to implementing the Microsoft Office system as an application-development platform. This book highlights the breadth of approaches developers can take for extending line-of-business information to information workers in the familiar, usable format of the Microsoft Office interface. These approaches, Microsoft Office Business Application (OBA) patterns, are based on real-world implementations in many cases. In other cases, they are built on Microsoft Office features that have a generalized solution rooted in input from customers and partners. This reference delivers the seven key Microsoft Office Business Application patterns and provides professional developers with extensible examples and the architectural guidance needed for developing custom enterprise applications and extending business information to users. 12/14/2007
  SharePoint 2007 will be an integral component of just about everything Microsoft does moving forward from servers and clients to e-mail and document management systems.
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