This is what I wrote on the twelve of May

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"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 "

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The full quote on Steve Caravajal that I referred to above is still there

"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years. Steve has 25+ years experience in technology and product development, consulting and training. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and mathematics and a doctoral degree in chemistry and computer science. Steve is a developer at heart, having written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET. He currently lives in Cincinnati, OH, with his wife Rosemary."

Note the "developer at heart" and remember this is an Admin book !!!

But the main thing of interest considering what I wrote above is that two more authors have been added to that Amazon page (and to the book). Both are SharePoint MVPs; both are very good at SharePoint Administration AND one of them is Todd Klindt !!!

Now my main thrust in that 12th May 2008 blog was that I would hardly rush out and buy a book if it were written by someone from Microsoft and the Microsoft guy (Steve Caravajal) is still presumably the lead writer for this one, but I still find it perhaps more than a coincidence that I blogged on him being the wrong guy for this book and just over two weeks later it turns out he no longer is the sole author.

Wouldn't it be interesting if we actually knew just when those guys were added.