Essential SharePoint® 2007 focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office

SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making,

streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems.

Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the

crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint

deployment—showing exactly how to maximize business value and

reduce project risk.

Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through

planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the

unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support

and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work—with

special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can

make or break your project. Learn how to:

Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies

Build SharePoint applications people want to use

Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis

Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable

Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process

Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services

Organize and staff SharePoint support teams

Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003

Whether you’re a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy – and deliver quantifiable results fast.

Preface

Chapter 1 Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success 

Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact Collaboration

Across the Extended Enterprise 

Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration

and Solutions Platform

Chapter 4 SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals

Chapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture 

Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007:

Upgrade or Rebuild?

Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery Planning

Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Management: Documents,

Records, and Web 

Chapter 10 Enterprise Search

Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms 

Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007