Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services address a variety of information-sharing and collaboration needs, providing an innovative way for you to manage information. In order to get the most out of SharePoint, you need to understand its capabilities to create materials, collaborate with others, and share enterprise information.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced SharePoint user, SharePoint 2003 User's Guide is designed to provide you with the information you need to effectively use these tools. The authors, who are experienced SharePoint consultants, take a real-world look at the best practices for Microsoft SharePoint 2003 and include many detailed examples you can build on.
The first section of the book describes the basic and advanced building blocks in both of the SharePoint technologies. With step-by-step examples, the authors explain features like portals, sites, lists, and libraries. Advanced topics include targeting content, managing security, and integrating with Microsoft Office 2003.
The second section expands on these features by showing you how to build the most commonly used SharePoint solutions. The book describes the challenges these solutions are designed to address and the benefits that are realized by using a SharePoint-based solution. The authors provide specific instruction and examples that will allow you to effectively configure SharePoint for document collaboration, information centers, and other detailed 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.
