Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide a collection of tools and services you can use to improve user and team productivity, make information sharing more effective, and facilitate business decision-making processes. In order to get the most out of SharePoint 2007, you need to understand how to best use the capabilities to support your information management, collaboration, and business process management needs.
The SharePoint 2007 User's Guide is designed to provide you with the information you need to effectively use these tools. Whether you are using SharePoint as an intranet or business solution platform, you will learn how to use the resources (such as lists, libraries, and sites) and services (such as publishing, workflow and policies) that make up these environments. Information and process owners will be given the knowledge they need to build and manage solutions. Information and process consumers will be given the knowledge they need to effectively use SharePoint resources.
In this book we walk you through the components and capabilities that make up a SharePoint 2007 environment. We provide step-by-step instructions for using and managing these elements, as well as recommendations for how to best leverage them. We then take two common SharePoint uses, document management and project information management, and walk you through creating samples of these solutions. We describe the challenges these solutions are designed to address and the benefits you will receive.
We have brought together this information based on our experience working with these tools and with business users who effectively leverage these technologies within their organizations. These experiences were incorporated into the writing of this book to make it easy for you to gain the knowledge you need to make the most of the product.
Author Information
Seth Bates - is a solutions architect and senior consultant for DataLan Corporation, 2005 Microsoft Eastern Region Partner of the Year located in White Plains, New York. Bates coauthored the SharePoint 2003 User's Guide and performed the technical editing for Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions and Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions. He was also published in the April 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal with an article titled "SharePoint Web Part Development." Bates has over 9 years of experience engineering business solutions, primarily using Microsoft technologies. With experience in all phases of the software engineering life cycle, he brings a broad mix of analysis, design, and implementation expertise to his work.
Tony Smith - is a product manager for DataLan Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, located in White Plains, New York. Tony coauthored the SharePoint 2003 User's Guide and has been working with SharePoint 2007 since its first beta release. He also has experience designing and deploying SharePoint solutions in a wide range of organizations, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 companies. With a background that includes business analysis, network engineering, and application development, Tony has over 15 years of experience engineering business solutions, and regularly presents to engineers, analysts, and business decision makers.