Download the Windows SharePoint Services with Service Pack 2, install it, and read the SPS Online Help. It has a whole lot of information on SharePoint initialization, administration, and customization. I just finished customizing a SharePoint installation for Ernst & Young for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. At the beginning of the project, I knew nothing of SharePoint. I found the online help indispensable. To supplement the books, I read the blogs by the SharePoint developers. Google for SharePoint blogs and you can read those, too. "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty