I'm always very hesitant (i.e. it is NOT a sales point) when I see that a book has been written by someone who works for Microsoft.

Somehow I don't see them knocking something in a Microsoft product for not working or not working well.

Add to that that Microsoft employees often (but not always) tend to be a long way from people who actually use the product and I start thinking that maybe (well to be truthful I rarely reach even the maybe stage) I won't bother with this book.

There are exceptions of course. There are certain areas (a recent book about the internals of the search system comes to mind) where all that inside knowledge can be very useful.

But to the matter in hand. A new book on SharePoint administration has just made it to Amazon (which means it will be out in the fall/autumn).

You can with that massive introduction perhaps guess that it was written by someone from Microsoft.

Here's the blurb.

"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years."

Ah, yes, but has he actually been administering them ?

It would seem not.

Wouldn't you think that they could find a Microsoft guy (from internal Microsoft computing perhaps) with Administration experience if they really insist on having someone from Microsoft.

I'd have picked Todd Klindt (MVP, not Microsoft) myself.

Other info on that upcoming book here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584506016/heme0f

The other interesting quote - considering this is a book on administration - is

"Steve is a developer at heart, having written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET."

So why didn't he write a book on SharePoint development? Surely not because there are a lot more development books out there than pure admin books?