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Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed |
Author: Michael Noel
Published: 2007-04-22 |
List price: $59.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Starting from nothing
I found this book immensely helpful as a complete novice. Knowing nothing about SharePoint in any flavor this book filled in the gaps. It did not take long before I was able to get a Sharepoint site up and running effectively. I have been in the computer industry as a developer for 20+ years, which makes the detail coverage of the architecture and services involved just right for me. Once you get familiar with the product you will probably want to pursue a pure reference/maintenance book.
 Didn't help me very much
Despite the praise by others (and that is why I bought it), I was disappointed to find that this book is like many other computer books these days: a lengthy but shallow description of the product that it covers, but with little insight into the practical problems or the non-obvious aspects of the product. There was very little in this book that I had not already figured out by simply sitting down and using SharePoint for a few hours.
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br /Instead of devoting hundreds of pages to showing you what is in the product and simply repeating much of what you can find in the help text, I would have liked (and was expecting) *insight*, but found little.
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br /Here's one example: I created a new page in SharePoint and added some web parts to it. You don't need this book to tell you how to do that - it's all explained in the help text, or is enough logical that you can easily figure it out with a little experimenting. With a little more reading of the help text you can also figure out how the Filter web parts work, which are very useful and powerful. But one type of Filter is called a List Filter, and the help text just gives a 2-sentence explanation of what it does, which wasn't enough for me to figure it out how to use it. And that's all this book provides, too. For an expensive book to just repeat what you can see simply by running the product is of no value to me - or anyone. I would have liked at least a page that shows how the List Filter part works, a brief example, and a paragraph describing the limitations (of which there are some, and they are important to know).
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br /I could provide many similar illustrations, but you get the idea. It really seemed to me that this book was written by someone who hadn't spent much time actually using SharePoint for any serious purpose.
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br /And this book is not alone. I have purchased or paged through several other competing books on SharePoint and they suffer the same defect.
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br /Summary: If you are just starting out with SharePoint, the 2007 version of the product is reasonably self-explanatory, at least if you have a logical mind and are willing to spend a little time experimenting and consulting the help text. This book adds little to that. And once you are beyond that point, this book adds nothing. It's your time and money.
 Very detailed
My teacher recommended this book and it's now my bible. I just started building a WSS 3.0 environment and the book explains each feature in detail. Also, the author includes what that feature couldn't do in Sharepoint 2003 and the extras added in MOSS. So you learn the past, present and future of each feature. Great job explaining the whole picture.
Difficult to navigate
With this much information packed into one book, it's crucial that information can be easily found when looking up something. This book is never presenting the information where you'd expect, and the index is horrible - I haven't found anything I was looking for yet by using the index.
br /It's not about presenting everything - it's about presenting everything so that you can find it when you need it.
br /Maybe adding a Google feature would do the trick...
 good but not great
Could use more programming examples. More for a power users then dev user. But its very good if you are looking for just a power user book.
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