SharePoint 2003 User's Guide »

Seth Bates is the delivery manager and a solutions architect for DataLan Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner specializing in SharePoint solutions located in White Plains, New York. Bates coauthored both the SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide: Learning Microsoft’s Collaboration and Productivity Platform and the SharePoint 2003 User’s Guide. He also has performed the technical editing on many other SharePoint books and published an article titled “SharePoint Web Part Development” in the April 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Bates has over 11 years’ 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 analysis, design, and implementation expertise to his work.

Tony Smith is a product manager for DataLan Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner located in White Plains, New York. Tony coauthored both the SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide: Learning Microsoft’s Collaboration and Productivity Platform and the SharePoint 2003 User’s Guide. He has been working with SharePoint technologies since they were originally introduced in 2001 and has been working with SharePoint 2010 since its initial beta release. He also has experience designing and deploying SharePoint solutions in a wide range of organizations across many industries, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 companies. With a background that includes business analysis, network engineering, and application development, Tony has over 15 years’ experience engineering business solutions and regularly presents to engineers, analysts, and business decision makers. You can find additional information about Tony and topics discussed in this book at www.sharepointextras.com.

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.