In the interests of expanding my technical abilities, I’ve picked up a copy of Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 for Dummies. I spent a few hours at the Barnes & Noble at Riverside Square, Paramus, NJ skimming through various books on this subject. I found the “For Dummies” version to be the most “in-plain-English” and “non-Microsoft-tech-speak”. If you don’t know what “Microsoft-tech-speak” is, be very happy.
After standing on line for a good 20 minutes, (post-Christmas shoppers), I drove home with a new-found source of knowledge. Less than halfway through the first chapter of the book, I read this:
“SharePoint requires a lot of skills, and it’s not likely that you have all of them. I know I sure don’t. You have to make arrangements to acquire the skills you don’t have in-house.”
“I know I sure don’t” Not exactly the confidence boost I need. Continuing with the rest of the chapter though, SharePoint somehow seems manageable. Tameable.
I just need to sit down at a working Sharepoint install, or at least Windows Server 2003 so I can get SharePoint up and running. This book has a whole chapter on installing SharePoint. More updates as I continue reading.
Apr 09
This book is pretty awesome, although it doesn’t get technical at all as far as deploying your own apps. It’s more used for configuring an out-of-the-box installation and how to use all of the default features. Still, it was damn helpful at getting MOSS ‘07 installed on a fresh Windows Server 08 box.