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SharePoint related Books

SharePoint Designer  Co-Authored by the founder of SharePoint-eLearning.com (Asif Rehmani), this book is a must have for any Power User, Developer or Designer who wants to leverage all that SharePoint has to offer without jumping into Visual Studio. This book will show you how to create Powerful Workflows, manage Data Views to gather data from disparate sources including your databases, create Style Sheets to visually enhance your sites, create Master Pages, Backup your workspaces, run Usage Reports, and a whole lot more. Pick up this book and you'll see firsthand how easy is to create powerful solutions on top of your SharePoint sites.
Storage Considerations for SharePoint  Written by the contributing partner of SharePoint-eLearning.com (Wendy Henry), this book will help IT Engineers and Administrators choose flexible storage for SharePoint that will stand the test of time. Readers will learn about the pitfalls of inadequate storage management, I/O performance enhancements for SharePoint components and high availability options combined with data archiving to best manage data bloat. Lastly, an in-depth discussion of best practices for deploying SharePoint onto iSCSI will prepare any enterprise, large or small, which may be ready to ramp up their disk architecture. Lastly, an in-depth discussion of best practices for deploying SharePoint onto iSCSI will prepare any enterprise, large or small, which may be ready to ramp up their disk architecture.
Office SharePoint Server Resource Kit This book is a must have for your shelf if you are going to be venturing into the SharePoint world.  As the name states, this book is a Companion to a SharePoint Administrator.  This would apply if you are a SharePoint Administrator or just a Site or Site Collection Administrator.  You Need this book for quick reference of ever so many concepts in the SharePoint world.  Having said that, do not look for this book to provide you with an in-depth look at any of the concepts.  This is more of an Encyclopedia of SharePoint and related technologies.
SharePoint 2007 Administration This book picks up where the SharePoint companion leaves off.  If you are going to be The Admin of a SharePoint deployment, Site Collection or even a Site, then you should consider purchasing this book.  This book dives into topics such as Configuring and Managing SharePoint Server, Web Content Management, Customizing SharePoint and Backup & Restore.
Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration This book would be beneficial to a person who is a Site or a Site Collection Admin within the SharePoint deployment.  This book guides you to Administer and Build Solutions on SharePoint once you have control of a Site or Site Collection.  The beginning of this book talks about how you can add and customize Lists, Libraries and then build Workflows on those lists and libraries.  This books also starts exploring the SharePoint Server Enterprise topics such as Excel Services, Forms Services, Business Data Catalog and Web Content Management.  A chapter each is dedicated per subject and it will give you good beginner and some intermediate knowledge of each of these concepts.
SharePoint 2007 User's Guide If you are a consumer of SharePoint, if you fit the profile of a Knowledge Worker, Information Architect, Content Manager, Intranet Manager or anything similar, then you will enjoy having this book around as reference for any questions you have getting around the somewhat tricky environment of SharePoint.  If you find yourself working in Document Libraries and Lists, creating simple Workflows that come out of the box with SharePoint Server, adding Web Parts to your page and simply trying to figure out the answer of "What's that?" when you come across various things in SharePoint, then this is the book you want to get.
Real World SharePoint 2007 SharePoint MVPs are the cream of the crop when it comes to really and truly understanding SharePoint technologies.  16 MVPs got together from various backgrounds and wrote this book.  Every chapter is kind of like an article all by itself written by a professional in that field.  It truly is more of a compilation of articles than a traditional book which has worked out great!  Topics such as SharePoint Administration, Developing Publishing Sites, using SharePoint Designer, Creating Workflows, Forms Based Authentication and so much more is all crammed into this one book.
Beginning Excel Services Excel Services is a component that only ships with SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise license.  Simply put, it allows you to share your spreadsheet through the SharePoint server platform enabling server based calculations, browser-based access and even provides a web services interface into the workbooks.  This book will help you to set all that up if you are Site or Site Collection Admin.  However, keep in mind that there is one component of this puzzle (setting up Trusted Locations where your spreadsheets will reside) that would have to be configured by the SharePoint Admin since this setting is accessible through Shared Services configuration site.  The book is titled to be for beginners, but it provides some in-depth knowledge of the Architecture, Capacity and Deployment Planning and Administration of Excel Services.