About the Project Material


This book is intended to give you all of the business and technical background necessary to get a jump start deploying solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. I am assuming that you are an intermediate to advanced technical reader who is involved in an effort to roll out a portal solution. I also assume that you have a reasonable level of business experience to provide context for the work.

Because SharePoint solutions affect the entire enterprise, portions of the book deal with various technical disciplines. In some cases, I will discuss network engineering principles. In other cases, I will write code using Visual Studio .NET. Therefore, readers should have some experience with intermediate networking and a strong understanding of programming concepts.

Throughout the book, I will ask you to participate in the concepts presented. Where a concept is easy to demonstrate, I will provide you with short, hands-on activities. These activities are intended to reinforce basic ideas or demonstrate simple features. You will also find complete exercises at the end of chapters. These exercises are intended as in-depth aids to reinforce several concepts and create a complete vision for a solution. The exercises are a critical part of the book, and readers should complete as many as possible. Additionally, the exercises assume that you have established the development environment defined in Chapter 2. For those who do not want to type in all of the code associated with each exercise, you can access the completed exercises as a download available from the Apress site or www.sharepointstuff.com .

I use a wide variety of software products to simulate a true enterprise environment in this book. Throughout, I invite you to try out features and functions of SPS and see how it integrates with other major Microsoft products and technologies. In order to create the basic environment used by this book, you should have the following software available:

  • Microsoft Windows 2003, Enterprise Edition

  • Microsoft Exchange 2003

  • Microsoft Windows Terminal Services

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000

  • Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server

  • Microsoft Office 2003

  • Microsoft InfoPath

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Finally, you should note that I intend this book to be read cover to cover. Unlike some technical books, this one is not intended simply to be a reference that readers access primarily through the index. This book is intended to be an educational experience, and each chapter always assumes that you have read all previous material carefully .




Microsoft SharePoint[c] Building Office 2003 Solutions
Microsoft SharePoint[c] Building Office 2003 Solutions
ISBN: 1590593383
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 92

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