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Summary: Not for administrators
Review: I've found this book extremely frustrating. It talks about a lot of things that I'd like to do, but does not tell you how to do them! I give two stars because it's discussions are still informative and provide some insight into portal design and sharepoint's capabilities. But, what I really needed were practical implementation details, and this book completely fails to deliver in that respect.
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Summary: Caveat Emptor
Review: Ok, here's the deal I'm an experienced ASP, office, sql, IIS, exchange developer, digital dashboard. I've been tasked to customize and deploy sharepoint for a fairly large organization. Naturally I felt I needed a book to serve as a guide for the more exotic requirements. Of course I turned to Microsoft. BIG MISTAKE. This book is long on theory, short on details. Its more of an idea book then a resource kit. Its not for a beginner, because the only thing it goes into any detail is installation. Which means nothing because installation is run by a wizard. So as long as you meet hardware/software specs its a breeze. There is nothing about even basic customization of the dashboard (which is almost 70% of what an organization will ask for). Its not for an advanced person, because anyone who has even deployed sharepoint once, or at least worked with a document management tool will be able to work out the theories. What I was looking for was how to implement those theories through sharepoint! You know it may only satisfy a marketing guy who needed to know in a jiffy what Sharepoint can do, but has no intention of doing it himself. What you buy is a giant table of contents to the MSDN. There are many chapters that are 4-5 pages long that whet your appetite and then refer to so and so at microsoft.com for details. I have never seen a book with such terrible code samples. They are pretty lame (basically "hello world" type stuff) and there are NO explanations. Basically "type this, install, and press run". I dont even know why what I typed is useful. I gave a two stars because the CD came with some neat stuff (mostly better implementations of the web parts installed by default). You can rip these apart to use as templates for your own code, but man your going to have to figure out EVERYTHING by yourself. So if you really want to learn sharepoint go to MSDN and save your money.
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Summary: Not enough info
Review: The content is generally too "theoretical" to be of any help. It is more suited to a person who is evaluating sharepoint. A person looking for a reference to guide installation/development should look elsewhere. I expected at the very least a consolidation of the material at the MSDN, but I was wrong. The content is very shallow. I would have given it one star, but the CD contains useful web parts that one can use as templates to in creating your own.
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Summary: Not enough info
Review: The content is generally too "theoretical" to be of any help. It is more suited to a person who is evaluating sharepoint. A person looking for a reference to guide installation/development should look elsewhere. I expected at the very least a consolidation of the material at the MSDN, but I was wrong. The content is very shallow. I would have given it one star, but the CD contains useful web parts that one can use as templates to in creating your own.
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