SharePoint 2003 User's Guide (The Expert's Voice in Sharepoint)

* Provides a "real world" view and best practices around using SharePoint 2003 technologies to meet business needs.

* Seth Bates was the technical reviewer for both of Scot Hillier’s books.

* Lists the most common deployment scenarios of SharePoint technologies and the ways to best leverage SharePoint features for these scenarios.

Seth Bates is the manager of product development for Private Client Resources (PCR), located in Wilton, Connecticut. PCR is the aggregation, reporting and service partner to leading private banks, single and multi-family offices, and rich Internet applications. Bates coauthored both SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform and SharePoint 2003 User's Guide. He has been a technical editor for many other SharePoint books, published articles in technical journals and spoken at industry events. Bates has over 12 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 business analysis, solution design, technical implementation and quality control expertise to his work.