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| Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours: Using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours) | 
| Author: Mike Walsh
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 359380
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0672330008
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.678
EAN: 9780672330001
ASIN: 0672330008
Publication Date: October 4, 2008
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Product Description
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and business matters, allowing you to learn the essentials of SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the ground up. Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks. The Q&A sections and quizzes at the end of each lesson help you build and test your knowledge. Notes, Tips, and Cautions point out shortcuts, solutions, and potential problems to avoid. Learn how toa - Explore and fully utilize all the core WSS 3.0 features
- Install WSS 3.0 on different versions of Windows Server
- Explore the interoperability between SharePoint and various Office 2003 and 2007 products
- Create and enhance workflows
- Manage user permissions at all levels
- Enhance search functionality using Search Server 2008 Express
- Create internal blogs using the Extended Blog Edition
- Get your site up-and-running quickly with the Microsoft application templates
- Enhance your site by utilizing free and commercial third-party web parts
- Create sites in different languages
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 Buy this book. End users and developers: buy this book. December 11, 2008
Buy this book. End Users should definitely buy this book. Developers should buy this book. Consultants should buy this book.
SharePoint is a complicated animal and defies easy description. To start, the product comes in multiple flavors (WSS/MOSS Standard, MOSS Enterprise, SSX and more!). SharePoint has been described as an "operating system for business applications." As a result, it's like a Swiss Army knife. It's full of interesting gadgets (web parts), but do we really need a "Fish scaler with hook disgorger & ruler?" And if we do, how do we use it? Do we measure the fish and then disgorge it? Do we scale/measure/disgorge? Never mind what the manual says, what is the real answer? The author leads the way.
By focusing on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), this book strips SharePoint down to its most important components, describes what they are how to use them. Even better, the book offers practical advice on the best way to use them, even in the face of contrary marketing-speak. The author "likes" SharePoint but is no fanboy.
The author's voice is clearly authentic. He obviously understands the SharePoint well, has worked with the product for some time and is accustomed to working with non-technical end users trying to make the best of this tool in their daily routine. This background shows throughout the book.
Developers will find a good chunk of the book to be, frankly, a little boring. However, as a developer myself, my interest really peaked near the end, particularly when the book discussed building reports using Microsoft Access. I'd had a notion that there was some "good" integration between Access and SharePoint. However, this book really opened my eyes. And, it saved me from wasting a ton of hours going down a rabbit hole with the wizard working against multiple lists. Read the book to see what I mean. That information alone is well worth the price of admission.
I recommend the book to End Users, even experienced SharePoint End Users. The book's practical approach to problem solving, including the innovative "crime drama" scenario, will act as both a refresher as well provide food for thought on how to leverage the product in a wide variety of business scenarios.
The book's one-hour-at-a-time format works very well. I was skeptical at first, but as I read chapter after chapter, I feel into a nice rhythm. It's inspired me to re-think and consider purchasing more of the "24 hours" series of books in other technical areas.
Buy this book.
 need clearer introduction October 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Suppose you had never heard of SharePoint before, but you had some computer background, as a sysadmin or programmer, and you picked up this book. You wanted to quickly find out what exactly SharePoint does. The irony is that there appears to be no clear section around the start of the book that says this. As the Introduction says, the book is for beginners in SharePoint 2007. But what does it do?
The first chapter (called Hour 1) talks about the history of the product. Yet to a complete beginner, much of this has little meaning. The details in this chapter are too fine grained for the beginner.
So let's go back to the Introduction. We see statements like this - "Two main products fit the SharePoint 2007 description: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) ...". If I am a beginner, this does not mean anything to me. It just adds noise.
Now in the last section of the Introduction, there is a precis of each chapter. If you know nothing about SharePoint, here you can try to glean some kind of synopsis about it. But this is suboptimal. Better would have been to go back to the very start of the Introduction. Instead of commencing with the author describing his experience with an unknown (to the reader) product, it would have been better to describe in at least 1 paragraph the product. Not its history. Not current related offerings from Microsoft. Just in plain terms what it does right now. The reader needs to be motivated to keep reading, so she needs to be told at the very start.
Given those missing first paragraphs, then yeah, the rest of the Introduction could probably stand unchanged.
This would also be in keeping with the Sams 24 Hours series. Books in this series strive to be as simply written as possible, to garner a broad technical audience.
Nicely Done October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great format - wish I had thought of it :-) If you are new to SharePoint and find the numerous resources overwhelming - then this is the perfect book for you. You will learn several of the foundational elements of SharePoint administration, in 24 easy lessons.
Excellent self-paced learning tool! October 5, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Mike Walsh's "WSSFAQ" site is a well-known resource for SharePoint developers, and this book reflects the same style and attention to detail. It contains a wealth of knowledge for anyone who is approaching the SharePoint platform for the first time. The 24-hour format is great because it lets you get down to the nitty-gritty right away. I especially like the quizzes at the end of each chapter.
Great book to get you started! October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just wanted to drop a line and recommend this book to all people who want to quickly get a glimpse into SharePoint and in particular functionalities that are not covered anywhere else. No fluff in the content , lots of screenshots and a clear path to follow for those who want to learn this great platform.
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