Essential SharePoint 2007 is a concise and practical guide that teaches SharePoint power users, site administrators and developers how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's popular information-sharing and collaboration platform. Written by expert SharePoint consultant and educator Jeff Webb, Essential SharePoint 2007 helps readers quickly gain the skills necessary to perform a wide variety of tasks for a team or information sharing site. Readers will learn: * How Sharepoint 2007 differs from SharePoint 2003, including the many ways in which the new version is packaged and licensed * How to use SharePoint 2007 with Outlook, Word and Excel, and as a content management tool, replacing, for example, shared network drives with libraries * How to create SharePoint 2007 sites and populate them with lists, libraries and web parts, as well as blogs, wikis, surveys, and RSS and email alerts that promote timely communication and heightened productivity your company teams * How to build a SharePoint workflow application * How to create and program web parts in order to deliver custom services and data to a site * How to deploy and administer SharePoint 2007 Each chapter ends with a summary of best practices advocated by the author, and the book contains a number of appendices that conveniently expose hard-to-find information and a glossary of terms. Trainers and site administrators will find that they can use the first chapters of the book as training materials for end users and later chapters to better respond to user needs; later chapters give developers and adminstrators tools to keep company sites running smoothly and to deliver unique functionality. Throughout the book, the author always keeps the purpose of each feature site, or application in view, clearly explaining why a particular concept or operation under discussionm is useful or necessary. Regardless of your previous experience with SharePoint or your role as power user, site administrator, or developer, Essential SharePoint 2007 is your best place to quickly gain the range of skills and information you need to get started and lead your team or project to higher productivity.

Written by an expert consultant, this concise and practical guide teaches SharePoint power users, site administrators, and developers how to get the most from the latest version of Microsofts popular information-sharing and collaboration platform.

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.