Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Chapter One
Introduction to Microsoft
SharePoint 2007
I am extremely happy you are reading this book. It tells me that you are planning to install
SharePoint 2007 or at least are curious about it. Congratulations! This is a very good move! This
is the third generation of SharePoint, and it is so much better than its predecessors. In fact, at the
TechEd 2006 conference I heard a Microsoft representative talk about how they build a new software
application: "First we do a lot of planning, analysis and of course guessing at what the customer
wants in such a product; this results in version 1.0. Of course, we quickly realize that we
missed a number of things, so we learn from that, rebuild the product, and then release version 2.0.
This version will most likely also miss some important features, which our customers tell us in a
very frank and honest way. So, we sit down again, add the missing features, plus a lot more, an ... read full excerpt from Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 ebook
