- Posted by karthik on February 26, 2009
Believe it or not, answers to this question have a lot more variety than what you would think as is evidenced from this question over at LinkedIn answers
What's the right answer, you ask? Mine is always, "It depends"!
Let me qualify that further. Sharepoint as a tool and Sharepoint as a framework are *TWO DIFFERENT* things. Like I mentioned in my answer, depending on what you want to learn about Sharepoint, more importantly how you want to use it, you can look at various options. I am a big fan of experiential learning, so it is no surprise that I would advocate actually doing the things that you want to learn.
However, with Sharepoint, it is not as easy as it sounds. Since it is tightly coupled with different parts of the Windows Server System and SQL Server 2005 and uninformed changes CAN cause mayhem, it is incumbent upon any technical person to read up on how MOSS/WSS3.0 works before messing with it.
For those wanting to soak up MOSS trivia and knowledge, my links page has a pretty exhaustive set of online resources for your reading pleasure!
Cheers!