Essential SharePoint 2007

by Scott Jamison

E ssential SharePoint® 2007 focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making, streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems. Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint deployment–showing exactly how to maximize business value and reduce project risk. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work–with special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can make or break your project. Learn how Whether you're a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy–and deliver quantifiable results fast. Preface Chapter 1 Your Collaboration Ensuring Success
Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact Collaboration Across the Extended Enterprise
Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration and Solutions Platform Chapter 4 SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals Chapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture
Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007: Upgrade or Rebuild? Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery Planning Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Documents, Records, and Web
Chapter 10 Enterprise Search Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Workflow and Forms
Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007 Chapter 13 Providing Business Intelligence Appendix A SharePoint User Tasks
Appendix B OS/Browser/Office Compatibility Index

446 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2007

Reviews

[Salem Al-tamimi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview of what Sharepoint does and doesn't do. Its focus is collaboration solutions, however it also covers a lot of useful ideas on how to implement business-specific solutions into Sharepoint, e.g. with InfoPath and Business Intelligence (BI).
A good starting point for consultants in general, but not the best Sharepoint book for getting technical information.

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for the aspiring sharepoint consultant. An excellent overview without a lot of technical meet. This will give you lots of ideas for how you can use sharepoint to maximize a clients return on investment.

[Ashley Roach · Rating 4 out of 5]

was hoping to get some business perspective on SharePoint, but not quite sure this book lives up to its billing

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great intro to SharePoint - definitely more of a "what is it" than "how to do it" book. Much more of a "business" than technical perspective, but that's coming from a technical person.