"Real World SharePoint 2007" book - available in 1-2 weeks!
The Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs book will be available for sale in a week or two, and you can pre-order it on Amazon.com.
I am very proud of the fact that I initiated the idea for this book earlier this year, and I must thank Scot Hillier for sheparding the authoring and editing activities during the past several months to get the book done. Of course, I give my sincerest gratitude to the 16 authors, all of whom put in a stellar effort to write their respective chapters. Once you get the book and have questions or suggestions, please post them on this Wrox forum, which will be monitored by the authors.
Here's the Foreword that I wrote for the book, and I meant every word of it. So, go pre-order the book now!
This is an extraordinary book written by 16 extraordinary people. All of the authors are Microsoft MVP awardees for either Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server or Windows SharePoint® Services. MVP, in this context, stands for Most Valuable Professional. What makes MVPs so valuable to Microsoft? For starters, MVPs are very early adopters of Microsoft products and technologies, and they consistently provide a significant percentage of feature ideas and bug reports back to Microsoft. Secondly, MVPs have the innate quality of naturally sharing their knowledge in a no holds barred manner, and that’s exactly what the authors of this book have done.
As the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group lead for the MVP program, I interact with the authors as well as other SharePoint MVPs on a very frequent basis. In fact, during the course of drafting this Foreword, I exchanged e-mails with several of the authors about topics ranging from forms-based authentication (covered in Chapter 2) to customization and branding (covered in Chapter 6) based on real world scenarios that they’re currently dealing with. Every chapter in this book is based less on what SharePoint was designed to do and much more on how SharePoint has been implemented and utilized by the respective MVP in real world scenarios. I would not hesitate to vouch for any of the authors as being an expert in their respective chapter topics.
I am very proud of how 16 SharePoint MVPs came together so quickly and created this book in such a collaborative way even though a few of them have not yet met each other in person. I am honored that they have asked me to write the foreword for their book. And I am confident that you will find this book to be a valuable resource in helping you understand how to leverage SharePoint in your own real world scenarios.
If you have questions for or just want to say, “Thank you” to any of the authors, I encourage you to visit his or her blog and leave a comment. If you are interested in learning more about the SharePoint community – how to leverage various resources to find additional information about SharePoint, how to connect with others with similar interests and objectives for SharePoint, or how to become a SharePoint MVP, start by visiting the SharePoint Community Portal at http://MySharePointCommunity.com.
And just to be fair, I need to mention that there are over 60 other SharePoint focused books available, but you now know which is my favorite! :-)
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