How to Do Everything Microsoft SharePoint 2010

by Stephen Cawood

In How to Do Everything: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 , Stephen Cawood--a former member of the SharePoint development team--explains how to get the most out of this powerful business collaboration platform. Learn how to use document management functions, wikis, taxonomy, blogs, My Sites, web parts, and more. Take full advantage of the content management, enterprise search, collaboration, and information-sharing capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with help from this practical guide.

Genres: Computers

272 pages, Paperback

First published July 26, 2010

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty basic book about SharePoint that is probably only good for those very new to the product. Unfortunately, it is probably something that most would read and then never return to, however it does more than adequately cover what SharePoint is and how to use it. The majority of the book is spent explaining the options available in SharePoint rather than going into how they can actually be used. This is common drawback I find of most 'introduction' style SharePoint books. It is aimed to serve a specific niche and it does that well enough.

The book is easy to read and logical to follow. It does draw the distinction SharePoint Foundation and Server but concentrates most of its time on SharePoint Server.

So a worthwhile book if you have never used SharePoint but unfortunately once you have digested the material in here there is little chance that you'll need to go back, which is a pity. It is a book more aimed at illustrating all the options in SharePoint than actually showing you how to employ these to solve business problems, which is as I mentioned, a drawback of many books of this ilk.

[Rob Durante · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good overview, but missing lots of details on how to do things. I pretty hands-on, so I was able to figure out and to utilize the function just by knowing where it was located. This is where the book helped. I still need to more detail however.