SharePoint 2007 The Definitive Guide

For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Office 2007 is an integrated set of services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide provides a detailed discussion of all Sharepoint features, applications and extensions. You learn how to build Sharepoint sites and site collections, along with ways to administrate, secure, and extend Sharepoint.

This book explains how to:
- Understand SharePoint's key components: collaboration, portals, Enter[prise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business process and forms, and Business Intelligence
- Install, deploy, maintain, and secure SharePoint on a standalone server or in a multiserver farm
- Design SharePoint sites, including portals, top-level sites, and subside collections
- Create documents workspaces, document libraries, and graphics and image libraries
- Develop meeting workspaces to control everything from invitation to tracking and follow-up of assignments
- Manage lists, such as announcements, contracts, discussion boards, links, and calendars
- Integrate with Office applications including Excel, Word, Outlook, Picture Manager, and InfoPath
- Tweak, tune, customize, enhance and extend the core SharePoint platform ,to meet your organization's precise needs.

Extend SitePoint, such as creating client side and server side web parts, using the SharePoint class library and SharePoint web services
Each chapter starts with a "guide" that lets you know what it covers before you dive in. The book also features a detailed reference section that includes information on compatibility, command line utilities, services, and CSS styles. Why wait? Get a hold of 'SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide' today!