| Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed | 
| Authors: Michael Noel, Colin Spence
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 25289
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 840
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 1.7
ISBN: 0672329476
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.682
EAN: 9780672329470
ASIN: 0672329476
Publication Date: April 22, 2007
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 Thorough, informative, a must-have June 17, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
As an experienced SharePoint I.T. Administrator, I found this book very informative with detailed information and "how tos" on the various capabilities of MOSS 2007. I thought that this book was well organized with the book's "lack of fluff" and getting directly to what MOSS 2007 can do and offer. The book starts out with the first chapter's general description of what will be covered in the book as well as the chapter number as to where these features will be discussed in more detail. After the Chapter 1 overview, the actual, in-depth discussion following is done. Through the new features described including features of document libraries, lists, sites, and how to leverage the workflow capabilities within a team site and within SharePoint Designer 2007 and other features within MOSS 2007, Enterprise Edition (Business Intelligence, Excel Services, Business Data Catalog, etc), the authors' extensive amount of technical expertise, knowledge and experience of the subject matter is quite obvious.
Not only does this book describe the features within a MOSS 2007 team site, this book contains in-depth information about how to effectively administer MOSS 2007 within I.T., including utilizing the SharePoint Central Administration tool. Also the integration between MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Designer 2007 (formerly FrontPage), ISA Server 2006, Live Communication Server, and Exchange Server 2007 are discussed.
Looking to get up to speed quickly with learning about MOSS 2007, including its capabilities and its potential as a tool that can greatly help the productivity and collaboration within an enterprise, I found that this book delivers in providing that knowledge in a concise yet descriptive and thorough format.
If you are an experienced SharePoint 2003 Administrator, the authors provide an honest approach in describing the shortcomings and limitations of SharePoint 2003, and describe how MOSS 2007 improves those shortcomings. However, even though you may not have any background in the previous versions of SharePoint, the authors do mention that no prior experience is necessary and you will not be disappointed in discovering within this book as to how MOSS 2007 can be leveraged within your team at your company.
Whether you are a SharePoint I.T. Administrator who will be planning, installing and supporting MOSS 2007 at your company or if you are knowledge worker looking for a step-by-step guide on how to take full advantage of the capabilities of a MOSS 2007 team site, this book is the must-have reference guide and instruction manual that you will need to accomplish what you are looking for.
A must have for MOSS Administrators and Architects June 4, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Anyone who works with MOSS, or even WSS v3 should have this on the desk. The authors start with a good overview of what SharePoint is, what problems it was designed to solve, and how it does so. Then the authors go into the planning that should occur prior to beginning a deployment, (remember that with SharePoint the three most important issues in deploying and architecting are planning, planning, and planning), then into installing the system. Anyone planning to rollout a significant SharePoint deployment would do well to read and study the first section of this book. At almost 800 pages this book is quite weighty, but deservedly so.
The following sections go through the various parts of the product. Given the breadth of SharePoint it is hard to conceive of any one book that can cover the full gamut, however this one comes close. If I have any criticism of this book it is that there is not enough depth, there is little or no coverage of development topics, and there are parts where they say that something can be done, but go into no explanation as to who to do it, even if it is pointing in the right direction. The first two complaints are a bit unfair in that this is not a development book, and, again given the richness and depth of the product, there is no way that a single piece of literature can give all the details, even though this book comes as close as is humanly possible. The last is a very irritating thing to me. Often all I need to learn a new technology is a simple, Hello World type approach, getting some traction, then doing the research to get where I want to get to.
Other than that this book covers all the important areas such as Records Management, Search, Office integration, management of deployments, and on and on. With all l that is in this book, and minimum research, an administrator will have the information necessary to do most of what he or she needs to accomplish, as well as how to keep that system running at optimal levels.
Excellent Sharepoint book May 28, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A must have book. Covers several topics: administration, implementation, integration with other applications, etc.
 Dry, uninformative, lacking... May 22, 2007
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book reads like the authors were back-filling a checklist. Important topics (like different installation methods, including making MOSS 2k7 work with external, remote SQL Servers, etc) were either glossed over or missed entirely. I'd recommend this book ONLY for a general reference for someone who wants to learn a bit about what the new SharePoint can do, and NOT for network engineers, techs, or developers.
wikis and "business intelligence" April 26, 2007
14 out of 27 found this review helpful
Noel and Spence have put together a large amount of help on using SharePoint. All about enabling collaborative effort. Typically by employees inside a corporation. Though it's certainly extensible to outsiders, like corporate partners.
SharePoint basically deals with portal management, to people who have never used it before. So a lot of the book explains how users can plan/layout web pages and sets of web pages. The pages are typically dynamic, not in the sense of Java Server Pages or ASP. But in that a group of users can be defined by the SharePoint administrator, and anyone in the group can edit those pages. This elides into the concept of workspaces; a more general and powerful idea than merely web pages.
The word portal is relatively deprecated within the text, for some reason. Maybe because Microsoft wants SharePoint to move away from that concept? Whereas earlier versions of SharePoint embraced the word more strongly.
The book makes no mention of Lotus Notes. A competitor (from IBM) that is also in the collaborative field. A comparative analysis might have been interesting.
But the book at least mentions wikis. A wiki is a free, open source alternative to some of the functionality of SharePoint. Certainly, SharePoint can do more thus far. However, if your budget is limited and you don't need all the functionality described in the text, a wiki could be a plausible alternative. Interestingly, Microsoft has chosen to explicitly incorporate wikis, as a subset of SharePoint, and the book explains how this is done. Perhaps this ability is meant to draw in people already using wikis. To demonstrate an upward migration path to greater functionality.
Part of this extra ability is the so-called "business intelligence". Basically, it's a way to pull in data from other packages, especially Microsoft Office suite. Along with some simple means to graph this data. Useful, as it saves you from having to do a lot of low level coding. But the phrase "business intelligence" is risible. It suggests some deep analytic processing. (Akin to the promises made about AI in the late 80s.) Which is not what SharePoint 2007 offers.
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