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❑ Users can immediately apply professional looking site themes.
❑ Customized workspaces have prebuilt application templates for most common business
processes, such as workflows.
❑ Because WSS offers seamless integration with the Microsoft Office system, employees
can use common applications such as Outlook email to create and manage documents
without the need for a custom implementation.
❑ Better Control of Your Organization’s Important Business Data: Windows SharePoint Services
offer the following enhancements for data and information management and security:
❑ Enhanced browser and command-line based administrative controls allow you to per-
form site provisioning, content management, support, and backup. Subsequently, a
business can become more efficient and reduce costs.
❑ You have more control over your corporate infrastructure. IT has access to security and
policy settings at the lowest item level using enhanced administration services. WSS’s
increased security and easy deployment mean your organization can reduce its depend-
ency on skilled IT resources.
❑ Using advanced administrative features, IT can set the parameters under which busi-
ness units can provision sites and allow access, ensuring that all units fall within an
acceptable security policy.
❑ The Recycle Bin item retrieval and document versioning capabilities provide a safer
storage environment.
❑ Embrace the Web for Collaboration: By extending and customizing WSS, you can:
❑ Create collaborative websites complete with document libraries that act as central
repositories for creating, managing, and sharing documents with your team.
❑ Create, connect, and customize a set of business applications specific to scaling your
organizational needs.
❑ Take advantage of Sharepoint Designer to customize and brand your team sites and
applications.
Why Choose Windows SharePoint Services?
This section has a fictional but realistic scenario to illustrate how an organization uses Windows
SharePoint Services to cope with the overwhelming amount of information generated by projects from
their various teams. The fictional organization, Rossco Tech Consulting, offers professional services and
technology mentoring to startup companies. The following scenario outlines the Rossco’s experience
with SharePoint Products and Technologies, beginning with WSS and later expanding to SharePoint.
Because so much of Rossco’s business revolves around process documentation, having a central reposi-
tory to manage information surrounding projects is imperative. Because Rossco was using Windows
Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services became the obvious and most cost-efficient foundation on
which to build solutions to manage their projects.
Planning
To identify what improvements they needed to make to enhance efficiency, the company asked team
leads about the problems they were encountering when they shared information within their respective
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