computers and internet

(actual review is 2.5 stars). Even though this book has a lot of pages, the content is pretty shallow and it suffers from an apparent desire to address to many different types of reader, from the developer to the administrator, to the technology decision maker. The result is that the book is weak in two key areas: development and administration. For readers who want reasonable depth in those areas, I suggest finding another source. For readers who want a broad brush, the book is a fine work.

I've purchased both this book and the Resource Kit and tried to use them like lifelines because my company is going ga-ga over SharePoint (and I mostly agree). While this book has a lot going for it--it's well written and has a good teaching point of view, I've found a ton of errors in it that have caused me to lose my confidence in it. I still refer to it as a tutorial, but it's an awful lot of money to pay for a book that I can't trust. My advice is to rely on the Resource Kit as a reference and only buy this book as a teaching guide.

I went through the official curriculum for the class and this book surpasses it by far. It explains Sharepoint in simple terms and is step by step on all instructions. Best practices spotlight at the end of each chapter which lends to a huge learning curve. Did you know if you use a teamsite with more than 2Gb you should use the Portal server? Tips like that and other great explanations make setting this server up a breeze. I highly recommend this book and have purchased it for all of my developers working on this project also.