Introduction

This book started off as a single 200-page chapter in someone else's book. Almost a year later, and a different version of SharePoint, this book was born.

Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 was intended for IT administrators to get a handle on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Most of us don't have time to waste struggling with the ins and outs of a new product. We just need it to work. SharePoint is a really complicated beast; poorly documented, with oddly named settings, in even odder places. It's not for the faint of heart.

SharePoint is several things at once. It is a developer's platform, leveraging ASP .NET 2.0 and the Windows Workflow Foundation. It is a robust front end over the power of SQL 2000 or 2005 on the backend. ...

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