SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform | List Price: $39.99
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Binding: Paperback
Excellent book for various skill-level users. [Posted on 2007-09-07]
This book is easy to use both as a learning tool and a reference tool. The many examples provided give good background on the context of the desired function, and explicit, step-by-step instructions. The book has lots of "usage" suggestions.
Very helpful [Posted on 2007-09-21]
Recommended for "Power-Users," or those people that are comfortable working in Office, etc. Not for techies, per se, and perhaps a bit much for the average user. Get it for those people that will comfortably read a 300 page book on a computer program and then actually do something with it. Don't get it for those whose permissions you wouldn't dare leave without significant restrictions.
Has been very helpful to me as someone new to SharePoint. Only 4 stars because it's a bit much for the average user that we have in our organization -- I 'm not sold that I could distribute this as a User's Guide and expect increased understanding of how it works from the typical user. Perhaps it takes this much detail to present the information, but the lack of a general "how-to" or "quick-start" section makes me think that most users will be intimidated by the size and scope of the book and never crack it open.
However, from a Power User perspective, this book is excellent. The writing is clear and well-organized. I've been able to find just about everything I've needed to understand and answered most questions that have come to mind. I like how the book presents the different choices available, without shoe-horning you into the author's preferred choice. Comparing it to explanations available online, the information it typically presented better in this book.
Just what I was looking for [Posted on 2008-01-01]
I've got a bookshelf full of generic, IT-oriented Sharepoint administration books. They cover everything under the sun with respect to designing, deploying, configuring, and administering Sharepoint... if you're a network engineer. But this is the first book I've seen that I could just hand to a customer or a manager to help them start using the product as it was intended. It's full of easy-to-follow instructions and even some good ideas for scenarios on building different workspaces. I've bought this book twice. It should be part of the deliverables for any Sharepoint project.
Overly verbose [Posted on 2008-03-20]
I found this book to have an overly verbose and repetitive writing style, reading almost like an advertisement for SharePoint. I kept thinking to myself `get to the point'. If you enjoy reading for reading's sake you might enjoy this book. However, if you are looking for tips and tricks to becoming SharePoint wizard you'll find yourself bogged down in the long-winded passages and begging for more substance.
Okay but wordy [Posted on 2008-03-28]
There are several books available for SharePoint installers and admins and designers, but there really aren't many out there for end users. This is one of the few, and it does cover most of the important subjects. It has a few shortcomings:
+ The language is not very approachable. Long sentences, tedious writing, and a bit too formal.
+ It makes assumptions about user permissions. It often says, "You can do x, y, and z," but the truth is that the user has to have the right permissions in SharePoint to do all those things.
+ The screenshots have no callouts, so you have to study them closely to find what's important.
+ The authors take the old-style documentation approach, in which they describe the program in great detail, but rarely tell you how to use the program to accomplish real world tasks. For example, they frequently mention that document workspaces allow for collaboration, but never tell you what that collaboration might look like.
Despite those shortcomings I'm giving the book a generous 4 stars because I did learn about SharePoint by reading it. If your environment also includes Office 2007, you might want to wait for the end-user book by Vanessa L. Williams in the For Dummies series (NOT "SharePoint 2007 for Dummies," which is for admins.)
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