Book Review - SharePoint Office Pocket Guide by Jeff Webb
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Microsoft is banking on SharePoint being a major selling point of the new version of Office. But you might be struggling to get your mind around what exactly SharePoint Office. Jeff Webb has written a pocket guide that helps give a structure to that task... SharePoint Office Pocket Guide.
Contents: Why Use SharePoint?; Start with SharePoint; Share Meetings with Outlook; Workplaces with Excel; Document Libraries with Word; Gather Data with Lists or InfoPath; Office Version Compatibility; Online Resources; Index
A little disclosure up front... I make my living doing software development on the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino platform. This is the same ground that SharePoint is trying to stake out for their own... collaboration software. As such, I just *may* be a bit biased about the software itself. But from a book perspective, Webb does a pretty good job highlighting what SharePoint can offer. After going through the book, I at least have a mental framework as to how SharePoint works and what it takes to modify the software. I don't know how useful the book would be as a regular reference point once you've started to use the software. Some of the material seems to be high-level coverage (like the InfoPath information) that wouldn't be used once you've gone beyond the basics. And after seeing all the additional software you need to span the entire spectrum of SharePoint (FrontPage 2003, Office 2003, InfoPath 2003, Office Reader, Visual Studio.NET), it seems like you'd quickly outgrow this book. But giving it to an end-user as initial training could definitely fulfill a need...
As a quick way to figure out what it is you don't know, this book works well...
Microsoft is banking on SharePoint being a major selling point of the new version of Office. But you might be struggling to get your mind around what exactly SharePoint Office. Jeff Webb has written a pocket guide that helps give a structure to that task... SharePoint Office Pocket Guide.
Contents: Why Use SharePoint?; Start with SharePoint; Share Meetings with Outlook; Workplaces with Excel; Document Libraries with Word; Gather Data with Lists or InfoPath; Office Version Compatibility; Online Resources; Index
A little disclosure up front... I make my living doing software development on the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino platform. This is the same ground that SharePoint is trying to stake out for their own... collaboration software. As such, I just *may* be a bit biased about the software itself. But from a book perspective, Webb does a pretty good job highlighting what SharePoint can offer. After going through the book, I at least have a mental framework as to how SharePoint works and what it takes to modify the software. I don't know how useful the book would be as a regular reference point once you've started to use the software. Some of the material seems to be high-level coverage (like the InfoPath information) that wouldn't be used once you've gone beyond the basics. And after seeing all the additional software you need to span the entire spectrum of SharePoint (FrontPage 2003, Office 2003, InfoPath 2003, Office Reader, Visual Studio.NET), it seems like you'd quickly outgrow this book. But giving it to an end-user as initial training could definitely fulfill a need...
As a quick way to figure out what it is you don't know, this book works well...
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Have you ever used Sharepoint Portal? It's not as bad as some people make it out to be.
Posted by Bruce At 09:59:58 On 14/07/2006 | - Website - |
Posted by Duffbert At 10:32:45 On 14/07/2006 | - Website - |