Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies

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Not So Happy With This Book - I must agree with Mr. Cox on both issues he brought up. The screen shots are hard to see. And there is a considerable degree of ambiguity on the differences between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS). One of the biggest reasons that I purchase documentation for software products from independent publishers is to get away from this type of ambiguity. If you re not sure that you ve committed to a software product that will serve your needs, there s a good chance that ambiguous documentation will upsell you to the next level.But I don t know what Ms. Williams or Wiley publishers have to gain by publishing ambiguous documentation. Why sell one book which ambiguously describes two different products when you could almost as easily sell two books which would clearly describe both?

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SharePoint 2007 for Dummies Needs a Magnifying Glass - I just received a copy of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 for Dummies by Vanessa L. Williams. I was the technical editor of this title. Overall, I found it a good book with valuable hands-on information for setting up and managing a SharePoint 2007 portal. There were a couple of general problems that I noted during the tech review:- It often wasn t clear whether the author was referring to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or both products.- The screenshots were hard to read and it was difficult to tell just what element was being discussed. The first issue has been fixed in the editing process. It s much easier to tell whether you re dealing with the full-blown MOSS 2007 or the basic WSS 3.0 product.The screenshot problem hasn t been fixed. It s actually worse in the printed book than in the bitmap images I saw. By requiring full screen images instead of focused portions, the publisher has done readers a serious disservice. The resulting images are too small, washed out, and very hard to comprehend without a magnifying glass. For example, look at the image on page 119 and see how difficult it is to focus on the global breadcrumb - even with the callout. The screenshot wastes half a page just to show a tiny line of text in the upper-left portion of the browser pane. Yuck. Sorry folks, but the Dummies book designers really need something like Readable Screenshots for Dummies to make their screenshots usable. It s just not fair to authors to have their text content illustrated by such poor graphics.

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• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator s Companion
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