Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 Unleashed

by Michael Noel, Colin Spence

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.
IntroductionPart I SharePoint 2007 Overview, Planning, and Implementation1 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 Environment5 Installing Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 20076 Migrating from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007 Part II Using SharePoint 2007 Technologies7 Using Libraries and Lists in SharePoint 2007
8 Managing Libraries and Lists in SharePoint 20079 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 200713 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 Environment18 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 2007Index

Genres: Reference

812 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 2007

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed that this book was more focused on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) than Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). I also believe it includes things that shouldn't be included in a SharePoint book like Windows Services Update Server (WSUS), Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) setting up a VPN etc. Given they are all applicable in some way to a SharePoint installation I believe if the book is about SharePoint it should be focused in SharePoint.

Also like many books on SharePoint I felt that this book simply covered what is in the menu options without venturing further beyond. Again, like many other books on SharePoint I believe that it has attempted to cover too much material and as such doesn't get to the depth that would make it a worthwhile read.

In summary I would only rate this as an average book on SharePoint but below par if you were only looking at Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). I think many of these type of book about SharePoint need to go ito more detail about actually creating content to solve a problem. Even if it is only as an example it greatly improves the readers knowledge of the product, rather than simply working through all the menu options.

[Eric Shen]

It's more about programming on SharePoint based on ASP.NET. Not for configuration or Administration.