Microsoft  Windows  SharePoint  Services Inside Out
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent
  • This book teaches you every thing about the SharePoint in details it's a great help for the beginners.
  • Good, but impractical information
  • Simply the best book on the subject.
  • Good book about WSS
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
Jim Buyens
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
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ASIN: 0735621713

Book Description

Take your Windows SharePoint Services experience to the next level! Designed for advanced users, this supremely organized reference packs all the information you need to master every major tool, task, and enhancement in Windows SharePoint Serviceswithout the fluff. Discover how to simplify information sharing, make team collaboration more efficient, and improve your personal productivity. Find hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds, all in concise, fast-answer format.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2007-05-15

It'a a excellent book - very easy to use - with a lot of information

4 out of 5 stars This book teaches you every thing about the SharePoint in details it's a great help for the beginners........2006-07-24

4

3 out of 5 stars Good, but impractical information.......2005-10-20

While covering a lot of infomration, this book still did not answer basic questions about how to use Sharepoint. It is geared more for the tech/programmer rather than the end-user.

4 out of 5 stars Simply the best book on the subject........2005-08-24

After purchasing 6 others on the subject of Windows Sharepoint Services, I find that this has the best information on the broad subject of WSS. The book is not perfect but its a fairly easy read and the examples are some what real world.

4 out of 5 stars Good book about WSS.......2005-06-01

This book is a good introduction to MS Windows SharePoint Services (i.e. not SPS). I liked the broad coverage of all WSS features, and not least the introduction to use FrontPage 2003 for enhancing the design and functionality of WSS, plus a short introduction to Web Part development. It is easy to read, even for non-SharePoint guru's. I can recommend it as an introduction to WSS.
Microsoft  Windows  XP Networking and Security Inside Out: Also Covers Windows 2000 (Inside Out)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • An excellent IT book
Microsoft Windows XP Networking and Security Inside Out: Also Covers Windows 2000 (Inside Out)
Ed Bott , and Carl Siechert
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ASIN: 0735620423

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Configure and manage your PC networkand help combat privacy and security threatsfrom the inside out! Written by the authors of the immensely popular Windows XP Inside Out, this book packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for networking and security topicsall in concise, fast-answer format. Dig into the tools and techniques for configuring workgroup, domain, Internet, and remote networking, and all the network components and features in between.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An excellent IT book.......2007-07-05

I wish that all the books dealing with IT were written like this one. Ed Bott really explains everything in a very,very clear way.Without dumbing it down or assuming that you already know everything,like other writers...Most of the time when I read a book about Windows I get sleepy after a while.Not with this one.His books(like the one about Outlook)keep you interested.On top you will find sometimes information that you will not find in any other book.After reading several of his books I have no problem buying his next one,about Vista or whatever without even seeing it before.
Microsoft Windows XP Networking Inside Out
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Curt Simmons , and James Causey
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ASIN: 0735616523

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Hey, you know your way around a desktop-now dig into the Windows XP operating system and really put its networking features to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving networking solutions, checklists, network troubleshooting tips, and workarounds-all in concise, fast-answers format. Learn the tools and techniques for configuring and managing networking with Windows XP-including workgroup, domain, Internet, and remote networking, plus every network component and feature in between.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best book on XP Networking & IIS issues.......2007-07-03

If you want to run your own webserver & use XP's IIS as your webserver software, this is the book to help you with IIS setup and security issues. I don't understand why MS didn't have Curt Simmons do the later updated version - he's such a clear writer. This book explains even difficult concepts clearly and simply with very clear examples. Highly recommended.
Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out (Bpg Inside Out)
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    Culture Shift: Transforming Your Church from the Inside Out (J-B Leadership Network Series)
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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    Culture Shift, written for church leaders, ministers, pastors, ministry teams, and lay leaders, leads you through the process of identifying your church’s distinctive culture, gives you practical tools to change it from the inside-out, and provides steps to keep your new culture aligned with your church’s mission. Real transformation is not about working harder at what you’re already doing or even copying another church’s approach but about changing church culture at a foundational level.

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    5 out of 5 stars Fresh Outlook.......2006-11-11

    This book was eye-opening for me, and gave me a fresh new prespective on the life of a church. We need to focus less on self and on the future of the church to bring life and vitality to the church.

    4 out of 5 stars Culture changes everything, including the future!.......2006-11-11

    This book is about how to think, not what to think. It is a great book that helps pastors and leaders see the importance of setting the culture rather than trying to do patchwork quick-fixes on the church. Because culture has a way of communicating itself, if culture is not changed, things would slide back to what they were, and may continue to deteriorate.

    Your culture is the lens through which you view your life. If you change the lens, you change your outlook. Change the culture, and everything else changes, including the future. Changing a culture is an inside-out approach that transforms the place. Transformation can never be brought in from the outside. Transformation is inside work, and every church already possess the elements that can bring it about.

    Because culture shapes the church, and leaders make the culture, this book helps leaders work through cultural issues in their church, and to find ways to change and incarnate the godly culture that they would want. In this book are also questions and suggesstions that guide the reader into looking at how things are, working out where you want to go, and areas to focus on to take you there. In general, a church that goes through a culture shift would likely go through the following (pg. 183-4):

    1. Identify and believe God's promises about your church's potential.
    2. Model kingdom culture personally.
    3. Enlist allies to champion the culture shift.
    4. Focus on "what we're becoming."
    5. Compare the vision of the future to present reality.
    6. Outline a specific, doable pathway.
    7. Help it filter through the church, and learn from feedback you receive.
    8. Stay focused on transformed people, and on those receptive to change.
    9. Make heroes of people who best represent the kingdom values.
    10. Celebrate every success, and give God the glory.
    Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    • Used this book and now have 3 money-making sites.
    • 100% satisfied.
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    MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE Version 2002 INSIDE OUT is the foremost reference to the FrontPage version 2002 Web site creation and management program for PC "super users". Complete in one volume, this book provides a thorough overview of the most-used features and functions of Microsoft's popular Website creation and management program.The book provides the information advanced users really need with no beginner content included.It delivers comprehensive information about every major tool and task in FrontPage, including creating Web pages, managing a Personal Web Server, keeping a site up-to-date, and publishing a Web. Throughout the book you'll find a wealth of timesaving tips and tricks, troubleshooting techniques, and indexes, plus a CD-ROM that holds an electronic version of the book's text, handy Web links, sample macros and code, tutorials, and utilities. This is the authoritative handbook you'll keep by your computer and use whenever you're stuck or stumped!

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars Not Great.......2006-06-15

    The layout of this book is not impressive. I find myself flipping back and forth and back for every reference to another subject. As a warning, it is a pretty advanced book as far as Frontpage goes. If you have little to no knowledge of Frontpage, get Frontpage for Dummies as this book will be difficult to learn with. This is what I had to do. But after a couple years of experience with Frontpage, I can finally use this book.

    5 out of 5 stars Great Book!.......2004-09-23

    This book has all of the answers you need. If you can do it in FrontPage, this book will tell you how.

    5 out of 5 stars Used this book and now have 3 money-making sites........2004-01-31

    I had no experience building web sites when I bought Jim Buyen's book "FrontPage INSIDE OUT". In just a few weeks, I had my first site up and running. Two more sites quickly followed. The book is 1000+ pages of invaluable information. Plus, the book comes with a CD for viewing on your computer. The cost-to-value ratio of this book is also good. One tip the author included about "Adding Favorites" icons to user's browsers was worth the cost of the book alone. Don't be intimitated by the size of this book. As you improve your knowledge, things become crystal clear.

    5 out of 5 stars 100% satisfied........2003-08-13

    I must say, this book was the perfect solution for me. I had a background in object-oriented programming (visual c++), but absolutely NO experience WHATSOEVER with web/internet programming.

    At first, I thought my goal was a little out of reach. I wanted to create a database-driven website that could recieve thousands of hits a day yet stay under my ISP's traffic limit of 5Gb per month. To top it all off, I wanted to start from scratch and have it all ready to go within 2 weeks.

    This book was my savior. Every single problem I encountered was covered in intricate detail. What really separated this book from the countless other frontpage books I tried was its explanation of database relationships and how to work around the standard conventions.

    Also, most people say that frontpage is too limited graphics-wise. That is true if you follow frontpage conventions, however, this book (along with the newsgroups on microsofts's website) will teach you how to "tweak" the code to get almost any result you want.

    Highly recommended.

    5 out of 5 stars Get This Book.......2003-08-09

    I just got this manual, and am pretty impressed at how in depth it is. The main reason to get this is the bonus CD. In includes Add-Ins not included in the FP2k2 software, and takes you step by step through all the features including the advanced options like installing plug-ins, etc. It's a big book, but I am using it as more of a reference manual. Plus the price is pretty good too.
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    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • Thin on the good stuff
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    3 out of 5 stars Thin on the good stuff.......2007-07-05

    While I found most of the information in this book to be valuable, and didn't find any errors, the types of attacks discussed seemed very lopsided. The author talks in great length about DOS attacks on websites as well as SQL injection and command injection by exploiting input validation errors, but only covers PHP, ASP, and to some degree Perl. The XSS discussion was only 7 pages, and authentication was only 5 pages! This book is a great starting place, but if you've got any experience with web security you might want to look elsewhere. Additionally the book provides demonstrations using only commercial software that the author wrote. This alone made me extremely suspicious. There were no significant examples or discussion of other tools for testing web applications for vulnerabilities.
    Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus altogether. All in the name of innovation.

    But this endless worrying, wriggling, and trend watching only alienates companies from whatever it is they really do best. In the midst of the headlong rush to think "outside the box," the full engagement responsible for true innovation is lost. New consultants, new packaging, new marketing schemes, or even new CEOs are no substitute for the evolution of our own expertise as individuals and as businesses.

    Indeed, for all their talk about innovation, most companies today are still scared to death of it.

    To Douglas Rushkoff, this disconnect is not only predictable but welcome. It marks the happy end of a business cycle that began as long ago as the Renaissance, and ended with the renaissance in creativity and collaboration we're going through today.

    The age of mass production, mass media, and mass marketing may be over, but so, too, is the alienation it engendered between producers and consumers, managers and employees, executives and shareholders, and, worst of all, businesses and their own core values and competencies.

    American enterprise, in particular, is at a crossroads. Having for too long replaced innovation with acquisitions, tactics, efficiencies, and ad campaigns, many businesses have dangerously lost touch with the process -- and fun -- of discovery.

    "American companies are obsessed with window dressing," Rushkoff writes, "because they're reluctant, no, afraid to look at whatever it is they really do and evaluate it from the inside out. When things are down, CEOs look to consultants and marketers to rethink, rebrand, or repackage whatever it is they are selling, when they should be getting back on the factory floor, into the stores, or out to the research labs where their product is actually made, sold, or conceived."

    Rushkoff backs up his arguments with a myriad of intriguing historical examples as well as familiar gut checks -- from the dumbwaiter and open source to Volkswagen and The Gap -- in this accessible, thought-provoking, and immediately applicable set of insights. Here's all the help innovators of this era need to reconnect with their own core competencies as well as the passion fueling them.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A paradigm shifter.......2007-04-27

    A great book. Reading this was like a breath of fresh air and really changed my thinking about technology, innovation, design and the hope for creating a livable world.

    5 out of 5 stars Great Wake-Up Call.......2007-04-02

    One of the best books on taking an outside look into how we do business, live and experience the world as people, not just consumers.Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out

    5 out of 5 stars Great scope and depth.......2007-03-16

    I have read tons of books on business practice and ethos. Rushkoff brought a great mix of theory and practical examples that are working in the real world of business. This book is the business version of "positive psychology", which advises that we develop our strengths and most problems will self correct. In this case it is, pursue your deepest values and you won't have to spend all your resources on marketing. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is involved in an organization at any level. I am a pastor of a church and it has provided many thought provoking concepts to explore in our context.

    5 out of 5 stars Interesting new perspective on creativity and innovation.......2007-02-25

    I'll admit, it took me awhile to really get into this book. Once I got through the first couple of chapters of "Get Back in the Box" though, I couldn't wait to read more of it.

    The author, Douglas Rushkoff, feels that we're in the midst of a renaissance in creativity and collaboration. As he puts it, "genuine creativity is a result not of out-of-the-box thinking, but of true expertise." Here's a great example he used partway through the book: The person that decided (years ago) to put a VCR and TV into one device wasn't really innovating. The person who came up with TiVo, on the other hand, was a genius and someone who truly had a handle on people's viewing habits.

    He's got an entire chapter on what he refers to as "social currency." The retailers featured as noteworthy examples in this chapter include B&N ("the store is a social hub"), Guitar Center ("it's a place to try out pretty much any piece of musical instrument there is--and to play on it for hours") and the Apple Store (described as "a little cathedral"). I tend to think Starbucks fits the mold as well. In fact, this chapter got me wondering about what would happen if Starbucks and Apple ever decided to create some co-branded shops...

    Here are a few of the other interesting tidbits I highlighted throughout this book:

    ** ...customers don't want to communicate with brands anymore...they want to communicate through them...

    ** Although we claim we want more leisure time, we are much more likely to find an opportunity for genuinely fulfilling engagement and learning at work.

    ** It's about learning to tinker, to tweak, and to test the most basic, underlying assumptions of one's core business or technology.

    ** (Regarding focus groups...) In the vast majority of the dozens of groups I've observed or led, the purpose was less to glean new insights than to confirm the insights already held.

    This turned out to be a very enjoyable book with all sorts of great observations.

    4 out of 5 stars It should be titled "Get off the sphere".......2007-02-09

    Where to start...

    I rated this 4 stars; 5 stars for being thought provoking and reinforcing my notions of what businesses should be concerned with, and 3 stars for the authors glaring examples of old-renaissance ideas/execution that didn't/don't work, yet providing nothing more than hindsight.

    I agree with the previous post that the first half of the book was better than the second half. There are so many examples that are counter to the authors examples, but I'll give a few here.

    First, in the absense of fullfilment opportunity exists. While Wal-Mart may be an evil company for some of its practices it also provides people in developing countries with a job, where none may have existed before. If you have no food and someone gives you a scrap then you at least survive to move onto a larger portion. If those who are employed at Wal-Mart cannot find another job that pays more than minimum wage then I would suggest going to a library and start learning...it has free internet access...

    Second, many of the arguments made throughout the book are based on a circular reference that is incapable of breaking down, when in fact it would break down. If a=b=c=d...y=z and z=a then for values of a-z that fluctuate so does the continuum. Every example given in the book relating to whatever currency units are give follows the same principle: that at some point, hidden beneath the guise of logic and play, energy will need to be expended that is not optimally or even close to optimally what any person would normally do in search of or in realizing the new renaissance. This breaks the whole model and I suppose it also degrades innovation at the same time.

    Third, open-source software, though trendy, has limitations. Imagine a world where function a is performed via single open-source project composing of a single developer, then fast-foward t years where function a is now performed by 1000 different projects each with 1000 developers (who share the same egos), in the meantime you have some number of function a demand satisfied by 1000 projects so a/1000. All of the sudden you have function b that people just though of at t+1 days, but only a small portion like 1% of function a projects are compatible...but the developers of function a projects not wanting their egos to be crushed realize this and perhaps migrate over to the small % of function a projects that are compatible...leaving the other 99% of function a projects to be picked up by some developer(s), whos egos aren't as big, to try and work something out with function b compatibility. Now you have function a compatible projects with a huge number of developers wanting to make their mark with function b, but the 99% of the people who utilize function a and now function b must switch to projects that are fully compatible and relearn, etc. The point is that people want recognition, however good or bad that may be, but it's the truth...even authors put their name, photo, etc.

    Fourth, I agree that understanding your "core competencies" are very important and understanding the "source code" and "patterns" is nice, but what really got me was how high people must be in order to realize that this is the path to eternal bliss or "play." I mean who in their right mind would choose to clean out a septic tank as a way of "playing" or even perform surgery on someone's brain...just for fun, when you know that someone's life depended on whether you were qualified or not. If you aren't qualified then doesn't that introduce a classe system of sorts? Who would regulate this...would this person think that telling someone they are incompetent was "playing?" It's clear that any system which qualifies someone as being able to perform a specific action, no matter how much fun they might have, is clearly old renaissance and the illusion of new renaissance is just that (not in entirety, but practicality).

    Fifth, while some people prefer to solve challenging problems, others would rather just sit around surfing, etc. What do we do with those people? Where would they get their surfboards, wax, wetsuits, food? I'll tell you who...the people that have enough resources at their disposal to just sit back and ponder how the old renaissance is coming to an end in favor of the new renaissance.

    Sixth, peoples faith often becomes a paramount influence in the actions they undertake. Some are at extreme ends and radicalize what is otherwise a very moral and just view of how things should be. These radicals often carry out actions against others because their convictions are so strong and so outside of the middle that even if the middle moves it will not be enough so enough will be "encouraged." This artificial skewing leads to others ultimately forgoing "play" in order to build a counter-trend necessary to prevent skewing that is non-organic. In the end you have a reduction in pure innovation (good) and an increase in pure existence. I'm guessing that the author was too busy contemplating whether or not we could he didn't think whether or not we should...

    Seven, the book discusses how currency became the demise of society as it pertains to interest, greed, etc. However, in the Paypal example he exalts that business for being upstanding and trying this new thing, but it ultimately fails because of the banks...yada, yada, yada. Anyways, Paypal was earning interest on the float vs. charging money for its service. How is that new renaissance? If we take the banks out of the equation so that interest is no longer accrued then who pays for the hosting, data, maybe it's those people who like to play in data centers. But then, who builds the steel racks, elevated floors, servers, ethernet cables, routers, switches, supplies power, constructs the building, stays up all night trying to figure out why no interest is being accrued :)

    Well, that was more of a rant than anything else. I'm glad this book cemented my ideas about open-source software and about how so many company executives are in such disrepair. Innovation...hmmm...whenever I have a bug in software I usually just open a debugging program that I purchased and print-out the portion of code via a printer, utilizing a driver, written by some person of gets off on that sorta thing...but would they do it for free if there other needs weren't being met...I don't think so.

    There's a reason why doctors get paid so much money, there's are reason why people do jobs they wouldn't otherwise do, there's a reason why the new renaissance only exists in the imagination of Gene Roddenberry. The have's and the have not's exist today, and perhaps in the 21st century we can combat much of this gap; however, until everyone is content with their existence and opportunity for existence then we will not reach the new renaissance. Indeed, it will only exist where truly innovative ideas take place...our isolated dreams...
    The Network Inside Out
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