Foreword by Jeff Teper

We started the project that became SharePoint with an ambitious goal—bring together collaboration, content management, and portals into a single experience that connects people and teams inside and outside organizations. Amazingly, this same vision continues to drive us today—13 years later! We are fortunate that SharePoint has been one of the fastest-growing server products in Microsoft’s history. Over 80% of the Fortune 500 depend on SharePoint every day to achieve business goals, and we’re excited to deliver new releases of SharePoint to more customers every day through our Office 365 cloud service.

Much of the success of SharePoint has to be attributed to the early adopters who saw the vision way back in the 2001 release. Three of those early adopters were Scott Jamison, Susan Hanley, and Chris Bortlik. They helped shape the product, provided critical feedback, and have worked roughly 30,000 hours each on projects involving SharePoint technology. Combined, they contribute over 40 years of experience with the product and its precursor offerings. More expertise and insight is hard to imagine.

I’m proud to recommend this book—you’ll find yourself reaching for it often; it will likely be one of the biggest factors in achieving your successful adoption of SharePoint.

—Jeff Teper
Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Office Servers & Services Program
Management
Redmond, Washington
May 2013