The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac : SharePoint Books

New Advanced Information Worker Book

Shane — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:40:00 GMT

My lovely wife Nicola Young and my rock star employee John Ross just published a new book called MOSS Explained: An information workers deep dive into MOSS 2007. How cool!

This book is the logical progression of the information worker. Lots of books target what is a list and basic stuff but this is the first book (that I know of) to really say "OK, now here is how you rock out the cool features." Even better it is written not by to uber geeks (like the books we normal write) but instead by two people who work with IWs everyday. Hell, Nicola was a psychology major and only my evilness forced her into the land of IT.

Check out the book!

Shane – SharePoint Help

The world’s greatest SharePoint admin book is here

Shane — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:48:00 GMT

Update - I got my winners. Jim E from California and Brandon from unknown. Thanks everyone! Look for another chance to win this week.

Just in time for the holiday season the book is available.

WSS MVP Todd Klindt, Microsoft Enterprise genius Steve Caravajal, and yours truly came together to write this real world, everything you need to know SharePoint administrators guide to the universe. Gets yours today.

And just for fun I will give away a free copy to the first person to fill out the help desk request form on my company website with a link to the post.

What the heck I will also give away another copy to the first person who will post a plug for the book on their blog. Just put a comment on this blog with a trackback.

Thanks

Shane Young – SharePoint Consulting

Microsoft Search – SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 now available

Shane — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Tom Rizzo and Richard Riley were kind enough to include me on this awesome book that covers everything SharePoint search.

While those guys wrote really deep, geeky chapters I went the other direction and wrote administrator style chapters. One chapter is on planning and designing Search at the enterprise scale. The other chapter covers search administration and the new interface provided by the SharePoint infrastructure update.

Check out the book if you get a chance.

And as a special reward for reading my blog and reading this whole post you can enter to win one of two free copies of the book. All you have to do is send an email to freebook at SharePoint911 dot com before midnight (Eastern time)on 10/15/2008. You must be in the continental US to be eligible, sorry but shipping gets to be painful out of the states, I do appreciate all of my international readers. If we have more than 100 entries I may sweeten the pot a little so spread the word.

Shane SharePoint Consulting

Lots of excuses for not blogging lately (and announcements)

Shane — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:23:22 GMT

Seriously, I am a slacker. My last post was April 1 and I apologize. I would like to tell you that this post is going to be chocked full of new content but alas I would be lying. Instead I want to offer up my apologizes and tell you about what is in the works.

New Search Book

About a month ago I was asked to be part of a very cool project. Richard Riley (Sr. Program Manager, Search), Tom Rizzo (Richard's bosses boss), and myself are working on a new book dedicated to Enterprise search. We are hoping to have it out by early fall. I just turned in my last chapter today. Shew! I wish I could tell you more about the chapters but some of the stuff in the book is still under NDA. That is how bleeding edge the information in the book will be. In one place there was nothing to link to so I say "go here and search for X it should be there by now". Anyway, if you are into Search (and who isn't) go ahead and buy the book now. Professional Microsoft SharePoint Search

New Admin Book

Steve Caravajal (Microsoft Enterprise Architect), Todd Klindt (SharePoint MVP and straight man), and me have started our own book endeavor. We have decide to take my SharePoint Administration training class, expand a little, and make it into a book. Tentatively titled Inside SharePoint Administration. As I type this I am building my Windows 2008 VPC so I can right the step-by-step guidance for installing MOSS SP1 and configuring Kerberos in this environment. The book is chocked full of advanced SharePoint administration topics including Power Shell for administrators, backups and disaster recovery, performance optimization, SQL admin, planning and deploying for extranets, and the list goes on. This book will be too awesome.

TechEd 2008

TechEd is quickly approaching and this year I am trying something new. Not only am I doing 3 breakout sessions that will be full of guest speakers and lots of new information and a chalk talk, I am also doing a preconference day. The preconference day will cover Upgrading from 2003 to 2007 and then how things are different now for an administrator. To do this I have teamed up with Todd Klindt again. Oh yeah, did I mention this will be in the hands on lab format? Meaning you will not only get guidance on doing the upgrade but then get to do an upgrade. Too fun. More information here https://www.msteched.com/itpro/public/precons.aspx

I am also a featured speaker this year which is quite an honor. Not sure it gets me much than the cool picture in Silverlight but it is a start.

My sessions are Creating Portals that last (Taxonomy and Governance), Admin 1, and Admin 2. For a list of all session check out this page https://www.msteched.com/itpro/public/sessions.aspx

One more thing about TechEd SharePoint911 and the Ted Pattison Group will be doing a booth so stop by and say hello. The booth will be open both weeks. And if you ask really nicely you may be able to get one of the limited edition t-shirts. As any good vendor we will have a supply of t-shirts for the masses but for the lucky few that know to ask for them we will be giving away a special shirt. I have already said to much but there is 3 different shirts and they…. Well they are just too much to even describe in words. You want one! (and not just to wash your car with)

Ok, I promise to get something geeky and technical up here asap, so stay tuned!

Shane

SharePoint Consulting

Book: Essential SharePoint 2007

Shane — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:33:16 GMT

If you are looking for the perfect book to give those non-technical people such as Business Decision Makers (BDM) or you need more help on the planning/design side of your SharePoint project this is the book for you.

One of the few books devoted to MOSS that actually covers governance, roll out, goals, and the other "soft" topics. After it gets you through the reasons for and direction of your SharePoint project then at a medium level it covers some of the key features you need to plan for. I really feel you could hand this your non technical leaders and get them up to speed in short order.

Great book! Get your copy here.

Shane – SharePoint Help

SharePoint MVP Book is here!

Shane — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:16:00 GMT

I just got my box full of copies. Too exciting.

For those of you not in the know 16 of your favorite SharePoint MVPS got together to do a book all about real world experiences with MOSS. Each one of us wrote our own chapter completely from our point of view. Makes for a very unique book with lots of great information. I recommend everyone buys ten copies. Just for some perspective on how different of a book it is: My chapter starts out with

"It was a dark and stormy night. I had just talked myself into sitting down long enough to take screenshots for my next blog posting when my phone rang. The call was from…"

I am sure it comes as a great shock to most of you but my chapter is actually on upgrading from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007. Lots of the lessons learned from my Upgrade Class are reflected in the book. Anyway, I need to quit writing this and start reading the other chapters. Should be exciting, maybe not as exciting as Harry Potter was but pretty close. And whatever you do don't tell my English Teacher from High School. She would never believe you that someone let me be part of a book.

Shane – SharePoint Help