The 2007 release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is an amazing platform for solving a great number of difficult problems for companies. Workflow, Excel Services, enterprise search, forms services, and much more all provide a wealth of resources to do things from automating review processes to giving teams a custom site to collaborate at. Unfortunately, the vast majority of complete-solution-in-15 minute examples shown in starter kits, web casts, and various blog posts are all simplistic and don't fit the real world. Find out what a real workflow looks like. Learn where InfoPath forms make sense and where they don't. See how to quickly build packages to easily deploy your solutions across an entire SharePoint server farm. Most of all, discover that while MOSS does a great many things out of the box there's still room for developers to roll up their sleeves and do cool things in code.

Jim Holmes is a Principal Consultant with NuSoft Solutions. He has two decades or so of experience in the IT domain scattered across a wide range of disciplines including telephone hotline support, network management, systems analysis, and software development. He's the founder of the Dayton .NET Developers Group and has written regular columns for VisualStudioHacks.com. He's also the co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools," from O'Reilly publications. In his spare time he can be found hiking with his family, roasting coffee, working in his rose garden, or trying to find a quiet corner in the house where he can take a nap.