My book titled SharePoint 2013 – First Look for Power Users was released this Monday (10/15/2012). Great to see it finally in production. Currently, it’s available at the publisher’s site: https://store.vook.com/storefronts/book/sharepoint-2013-first-look-for-power-users.html#.UH7Sa8XA83S Hopefully, soon it will start showing up on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Apple bookstores as well. This book is designed to be a practical guide to jump start the reader’s learning about the specifics of SharePoint 2013. The focus is on Team Sites and MySite – not Publishing Sites – and specifically the visual elements of the sites. The book is filled with images and embedded videos to …

Just starting out with SharePoint 2010 or even SharePoint in general? The book ‘Beginning SharePoint 2010 – Building Business Solutions with SharePoint’ is an Awesome resource to get your hands on to get you up and running quickly! First of all, this book is written by veterans (Amanda Perran, Shane Perran, Jennifer Mason, Laura Rogers) in the SharePoint community and not just from an outsider’s perspective which helps tremendously since it has been my personal experience (teaching on SharePoint for 6 years now) that it is not the easiest thing to teach effectively. This book starts directly by hitting on …

Review of Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration book by Wrox publishing. Authors: Todd Klindt, Shane Young, and Steve Caravajal Short review: If you are or will be in charge of administering SharePoint 2010, please don’t think twice and pick up this book. You’ll definitely need it! Longer review: A very critical message that unfortunately many people miss about SharePoint is that it is truly a ‘platform’. Many of the solutions that you will need on this platform are already created for you such as Sites as containers for content, Lists and Libraries, Security framework, Enterprise Search capability, Business Process management, Forms …

Our Real World SharePoint 2010 book is finally available now. One chapter each from 22 MVPs. That’s a lot of ‘expert’ content and hopefully will be beneficial for folks looking to get deep into SharePoint 2010 (this book is also available on the Kindle). The chapter that I wrote in the book focused on ‘Automating Business Processes using InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010’. Wrox publishing has decided to make this chapter available to download for free here. Enjoy!

Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 book now available on the Kindle: Also available on the Nook and as an electronic eBook to read on other devices.

Since I have gotten my Kindle, I have become a huge fan of it! I wish I could read Everything on it. Bunch of folks have asked me at the past SharePoint Connections conference if SharePoint Designer 2010 is available on the Kindle. Answer: not yet… BUT… it is available on the Nook already and it’s available as a PDF download. Here are the links to it: PDF – Adobe Digital Edition http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Beginning-SharePoint-Designer-2010.productCd-1118014936.html Nook http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beginning-SharePoint-Designer-2010/Woodrow-W-Windischman/e/9781118013892/?itm=1&USRI=Beginning+SharePoint+Designer+2010   I also contributed one chapter to Real World SharePoint 2010 book. That book is also now available in Adobe format here: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Real-World-SharePoint-2010-Indispensable-Experiences-from-23-SharePoint-MVPs.productCd-1118013239.html

Back in 2008, Woody Windischman, Bryan Phillips and I (Asif Rehmani) teamed up to write a book on SharePoint Designer 2007. The main reasons we wrote that book are because we really believe in SharePoint Designer and felt that there was just not enough ‘good’ information out there in the market about how to use it effectively. In fact, even till this day if you go to Amazon.com and read the reviews for the product, you will see that the prevailing viewpoint of reviewers is the complaint of not having a good user manual for it. In my humble opinion, …

Chapter 15 from our book (Professional SharePoint Designer 2007) is now available for free on MSDN. Bryan Phillips wrote that chapter. Congrats Bryan! Here is the location of that chapter: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819165.aspx

The Professional SharePoint Designer 2007 book that I co-authored with Woody and Bryan has finally hit the shelves. I hope this book can help fill the knowledge gaps on this Awesome (but often misunderstood) product.

Following will be the Table of Contents for the SharePoint Designer book (currently due to come out by Dec 31, 2008). Disclaimer: As with any pre-release book, changes to the TOC are possible.   Part I, “The Basics” Provides an overview of SharePoint Designer, SharePoint technology, and their relationship to one another. Chapter 1: Exploring SharePoint Designer Chapter 2: SharePoint from the User’s Perspective Chapter 3: SharePoint from the Administrator’s Perspective Chapter 4: SharePoint from a SharePoint Designer’s Perspective   Part II, “Customizing the SharePoint Look and Feel” Shows how to use SharePoint Designer to customize various aspects of your …