Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007 Best Practices by Bill English
Wonderful Book For Reading A Section At A Time
Get field-tested best practices and proven techniques for designing,
deploying, operating, and optimizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part of the new Best
Practices series for IT professionals from Microsoft Press®, this guide is
written by leading SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint team
members who ve worked extensively with real-world deployments and
customers. You ll find out how to deploy the software, design your
environment, manage content, analyze and view data, perform disaster
recovery, monitor performance, and more. Youll learn how to create
SharePoint sites that help your organization collaborate, take advantage of
business insights, and improve productivity with practical insights from the
experts.
Key Book Benefits:

Delivers authoritative, field-tested best practices for working with Microsoft
SharePoint solutions Covers the full IT lifecycle, from planning, design, and
deployment through operations and support Includes a CD with job aids,
utilities, and a fully searchable eBook
Personal Review: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best
Practices by Bill English
My own Sharepoint 2007 book came out recently and so I have been
constantly checking the Amazon US "hit parade" to see how it's been
doing.
Well it's doing OK, but the book which at the moment seems to be selling
in vast quantities is this MOSS 2007 Best Practices book.
Now I'll admit that before I got a copy for myself I was hard put to
understand why. After all this was a book by the two people (Bill English
and Ben Curry) who had (organised or) written the two existing Sharepoint
Administrator Books from Microsoft Press - the massive (and, through the
many authors, slightly unbalanced) Administrator's Companion and the
small, but full of quality information "Administrator's Pocket Consultant - so
what else could there be in this one ?
Actually there's a lot because this is probably a completely different book
to any of the - by now almost 100 - SharePoint 2007 books that have gone
before.
It's probably the first one that you can **and should** read without having a
computer handy.
The book doesn't concentrate on teaching you how to do things - which is
naturally what most of the other books do - but instead concentrates on
making you THINK. Think, that is, about your options BEFORE you do
things.
The other thing I've noticed is that it's the kind of book where you can dive
into a topic that's maybe only a part of a section of a chapter and read just
that and you will have learned something useful.
My favorite example of that is the few pages in the Document Management
chapter that discuss whether or not you should use SharePoint (document
libraries) as a replace for a File Server system. First there's the single line
with the answer (No) but that's followed by some indication of what could
be moved and what not and why. These are inter-spaced with several in-
boxes containing examples from the real-world - one of which to my delight
(and this IS a Microsoft Press book) actually suggested that in certain
circumstances you should keep your non-Microsoft application and NOT
move to SharePoint 2007!

In fact the only thing I found to object to in that section of the text was the
fact that whereas "SharePoint Server" had been given its "2007" to
complete the product name (unnecessary - there isn't any other
"SharePoint Server"), Windows SharePoint Services had been left without
it's (essential) "3.0". This comment, however, is rather like the car tests of
old where the car was highly praised in all essential details but for balance
it was mentioned that the ash tray was badly located!
The only other aspect I have a problem with is that it is 800 pages thick. As
it's the kind of book that in my opinion you should carry around with you
and just read bits of in odd moments, it's a pity that it's not thinner and
lighter and is instead the size and weight of book that is more suited to
being permanently located on the desk next to the computer.
Microsoft Press France actually did make two volumes out of the 1000
page Administrator's Companion when they created the French language
translation of that, so it's possible and it's a pity to my mind that Microsoft
Press US didn't make two volumes out of this. It would need those two 400
page volumes because there is good stuff throughout, but to my mind this
book cries out to be as easy to carry around as the Pocket Consultant is
and it isn't.
Maybe they are planning a Kindle version. That would at least help US
readers take this "book" with them everywhere.
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