Beginning SharePoint 2007-Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007

Amanda Murphy

Shane Perran

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Murphy, Amanda, 1976-
Beginning SharePoint 2007 : building team solutions with Moss 2007 / Amanda Murphy, Shane Perran.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-12449-9 (paper/website)
1. Intranets (Computer networks) 2. Web servers. 3. Web portals. I. Perran, Shane, 1973- II. Title.
TK5105.875.I6M97 2007
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Dedication

I dedicate this book to my mother, father, and two awesome brothers for their love, encouragement, and support over the years. This book is also dedicated to the memory of our recently lost loved ones, Tom Ryan, Helen Chaplin, and Eric Murphy.

-Amanda Murphy

I dedicate this book to my family and to the special friend I lost while writing it. To the one who rests in Witless Bay, may you never catch your tail.

-Shane Perran

About the Authors

Amanda Murphy is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server located in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has been working as a consultant and trainer with SharePoint since the release of the first version of the product in 2001. Amanda is a regular speaker and presenter at user group meetings, webcasts, and Microsoft Events on topics such as Microsoft SharePoint, InfoPath, and Project Server. She has maintained a SharePoint focused weblog at blog.funknstyle.com since 2003. In her spare time, Amanda is a member of the Board of Directors for INETA NorAm and manages the St. John’s .NET User Group.

Shane Perran is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows SharePoint Services living in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. He has been designing online user experiences for more than a decade. His strong passion for visual presentation, web standards, and usability has paved the way for a successful transition into the SharePoint Products and Technologies space where Shane has become well known in the SharePoint customization space over the past five years. Shane’s SharePoint Customization Blog, graphicalwonder.com, is a popular stop for customization experts across the globe.