| | |  | Intranet | Home » » » » Essential SharePoint 2007 | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Essential 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 to: -
Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies -
Build SharePoint applications people want to use -
Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis -
Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable -
Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process -
Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services -
Organize and staff SharePoint support teams -
Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003 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 Strategy: 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 Management: Documents, Records, and Web
Chapter 10 Enterprise Search Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Scott Jamison | | Paperback:
| 456 pages | | Publisher:
| Addison-Wesley Professional | | Publication Date:
| June 15, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0321421744 | | Product Width:
| 169.0 centimeters | | Product Height:
| 225.0 centimeters | | Product Weight:
| 1.9 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 ATlast a good book for the end-user community.Jun 23, 2007
By Pritam Dahake
"SharePoint man"
Being a SharePoint architect, I always get asked by clients and end users for resources/books to learn SharePoint functionality. The users don't want to know the gritty programming details, but want to know the functionality at a high level so that they can use the portal to its potential. I have always had a tough time recommending to clients a good book....but now with this book, I feel comfortable as well as confident that clients would feel at home reading this book.
The book talks about what collaboration is and how to implement a successful portal. From an end-user perspective it goes through all the out of the box functionality which is available and which can be implemented without writing a single line of code. The search functionality of MOSS has been very well explained. End users can very easily implement out-of-the-box workflows. The publishing features are very clearly explained.
Overall, I am very pleased with the book. Bear in mind the audience for this book is not a developer. Its mainly for the business/end-user community.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 A SharePoint book for the end user, and their managers.Oct 18, 2007
By John R. Naylor
Unlike most SP books out there at the moment, isn't all about how to install, set-up, administer, and write custom code for a SP deployment. It's much more aimed at end users, and people who need to plan a collaboration strategy around a shared knowledge base.
While a lot of it is management-theoretical in the first few chapters, it's sensible advice that gets one to think about things that are necessary to address, but wouldn't automatically have come to mind. The central message of "the 4 Cs" communication, collaboration, consolidation, and consistency help one to both recognize what's good, and also how to get there.
I think that chapters 1-3 are required reading for anyone in a human management role who will be involved with rolling out SharePoint as a collaboration tool.
Chapters 4-7 are more aimed at admins, so I skipped them.
Chapter 8 is great for individual site planning with "how to" and, more importantly "why to" and "when not to" advice on blogs, wikis, team sites, and their coherent integration.
The fastest payback for a reader comes in Appendix A which documents 24 things that a SP user needs to know how to do, from adding a files to a document library, to targeting information visibility by audience type.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
A good book that fills in the gapsAug 01, 2007
By William A. Miller
"Consultant"
I have done a number of sharepoint implementation as a consultant, and I would say that this book offers the same type of strategy I've known for the last few years. When tackling a sharepoint implementation a number of questions are needing to be answered. Most people do not know what to ask and what to take into consideration. I would say if you read this book, you'll at least have the basic questions ready and an understanding on how to match the portal capabilities to the needs of the organization. Chapters 1 - 7 offer a good insight on how to plan out the portal. Governance alone is a great topic, most companies don't even consider it. Most companies think that you turn it on and it runs, this book looks at how to keep the portal relevant in the business.
One area that is not covered is IRM, although this is a big topic, and worthy of a book in itself, it should at least had a section or a chapter dedicated to it. I didn't see one.
I recommend this book as a great resource for planning a portal implementation, its high level, but gets the point across and gives plenty to consider.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great SharePoint book for Architects and Business AnalystsSep 03, 2007
By Brendon
Essential SharePoint 2007 provides amazing guidance on how to architect your site. This book starts with high level concepts that any team implementing a collaboration solution should know. Although there is not a lot of detail on how to customize SharePoint with the object model or through code, this a great book for Business Analysts and Architects looking to improve their skills as well as junior developers wanting to understand how to build a system correctly. If you design and build SharePoint sites and have not read this book, I would recommend reading it. Keep in mind this book is not about developing on SharePoint, as the book points out - this book discusses higher level topics and shows how to interact with SharePoint through the user interface.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Inform your team with Essential SharePoint 2007Jul 24, 2007
By BEC
The Amazon page for this book contains a bundle with another book, SharePoint 2007 Unleashed. I have both books, and the bundle makes sense.
The other book in the bundle, SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, is for the SharePoint administrator and those involved in the nitty gritty features of MOSS2007. It contains almost everything you need to know to install and configure a MOSS2007 server in several scenarios. Very thorough. Very technical. It's not for everyone.
The current volume, Essential SharePoint 2007 is a much less intimidating way to get started. First of all it's much shorter and lighter. Second, the book is much more accessible to the less technically minded without stinting on facts.
We've found though that the biggest advantage of the book is in bringing the stakeholders along in the planning of a MOSS implementation. Essential SharePoint 2007 provides our very technically savvy group with an understanding of SharePoint's capabilities and the implications of making different configuration choices. If getting buy-in on features from your stakeholders is a problem, sharing this book can help a great deal.
The book is also good support for those folks in your organization whom you've given the right to create their own sites. There's plenty of detail on the ways sites are created, configured, customized and managed, without wasting time on details not yet needed.
As the title says; it's the essentials.
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