Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers

by Jeff Webb

Overview

If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform. Essential SharePoint 2007 demonstrates how your business can use SharePoint to control documents, structure workflow, and share information over the Web using standard tools business users already know — Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.

Written in a conversational tone by internationally recognized SharePoint consultant and trainer Jeff Webb, this book helps SharePoint administrators, site owners, and power users quickly gain the skills necessary to perform a wide variety of tasks for intranet and extranet web sites, and explains what's new in SharePoint 2007 for experienced SharePoint 2003 administrators. Essential SharePoint 2007 teaches you how to:

• Use SharePoint 2007 with Outlook, Word and Excel, and as a document management tool, replacing, for example, shared network drives with libraries
• Build and customize sites, lists, libraries and web parts for intranets and extranets
• Use SharePoint 2007 for team communication through blogs, wikis, surveys, and RSS and email alerts
• Build a SharePoint workflow application
• Create and program web parts in order to deliver custom services and data to a site
• Deploy and administer SharePoint 2007

Each chapter ends with a summary of best practices advocated by the author, and the first few chapters of the book are ideal as training materials for end users. Later chapters give developers and administrators tools not only to keep company sites running smoothly, but also to customize and extend them. The book also contains several appendices with a glossary of terms and hard-to-find information.

Essential SharePoint 2007 is a one-stop task-oriented guide for learning what's necessary to make this tool a vital part of team productivity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780596514075
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/18/2007
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jeff Webb is a SharePoint consultant and trainer who has written about computers and technology for 20 years. Among his published O'Reilly titles are Essential SharePoint, SharePoint Office Pocket Guide, Programming Excel with VBA and .NET, and Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook. Jeff was an original member of Microsoft's Visual Basic team.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Using SharePoint
• Chapter 2: Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Chapter 3: Creating Sites
• Chapter 4: Creating Lists
• Chapter 5: Creating Libraries
• Chapter 6: Building Pages
• Chapter 7: Creating My Sites, Blogs, and Wikis
• Chapter 8: Enabling Email and Workflow
• Chapter 9: RSS, Rollups, and Site Maps
• Chapter 10: Gathering Data with InfoPath
• Chapter 11: Programming Web Parts
• Chapter 12: Consuming SharePoint Services
• Chapter 13: Administering SharePoint
• Upgrading
• Reference Tables
• Glossary
• Colophon