Best Practice: Linking to or linking from SharePoint

The proper way to link in a document, or an email message is like this:

“Please point your browser to [The Human Name Of Your Root Site] and use Keyword xxx to get the content you need.”

This is so that in 100 years, the link will still work, no matter what technology is in use, or where the document is, SharePoint or not.

Go ahead and set-up a best-bet if you have MOSS, just to make sure people find it...

Books 4 U

Books for you. I have compiled a huge listing of my favorite SharePoint books and added them on the right-most side of the blog.

Here is the list so far:

Administrators:

• Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers
• Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer)
• Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer)
• Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion
• Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Administrator's Pocket Consultant
• Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (PRO-Developer)
• Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint)

Content Managers:

• SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform
• Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers
• The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users
• Pro InfoPath 2007 (Expert's Voice)

Developers

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices
• Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers
• Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Programmer to Programmer)
• Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Programmer to Programmer)
• Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step
• Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer)
• Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer)
• Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint)
• Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
• SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint)
• Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (PRO-Developer)
• Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint)
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
• Building Web Applications with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
• Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word (Expert's Voice)
• Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques
• Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
• Pro InfoPath 2007 (Expert's Voice)

End-Users

• Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
• The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users
• Pro InfoPath 2007 (Expert's Voice)

Site Managers

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices
• Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers
• Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
• The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users
• Pro InfoPath 2007 (Expert's Voice)

Enjoy!