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Part I: Implementing SharePoint Collaboration

✓ Delivered by Web Server: As a Web-based technology, SharePoint

requires the use of some sort of Web server to house the WSS and MOSS

software along with the SharePoint team sites and the documents and

data that you share with your team members. This Web server can

either be one maintained by your company in house or one hosted

externally by a professional Internet provider that offers SharePoint

2007 technology. (A bunch of service providers host SharePoint sites —

to locate one, do a Web search for “SharePoint 2007 hosting.”)

Discovering how teams can use SharePoint

to successfully collaborate

Assuming that you’re an administrator of your SharePoint site, you can use

SharePoint 2007 to facilitate the successful collaboration on most any type

of business project that requires teams to share information and ideas with

one another. SharePoint’s many built-in site templates make it quick and easy

to create specialized subsites that contain the elements appropriate for the

type of information or idea sharing that your particular teams require.

The normal out-of-the-box site templates are organized into four major

categories: Collaboration, Meetings, Application Templates, and Custom. If

any of these ready-made templates don’t give you exactly what you need,

SharePoint makes it easy for you to customize almost any of the elements

that a particular template happens to use.

Sharing information in SharePoint

A SharePoint team site enables you to make all sorts of information readily

available to the members of the teams that need to access it in order to suc-

cessfully collaborate with one another on a project.

The information you share on a SharePoint site typically is one of two forms:

✓ Discrete files such as Word documents, Excel workbooks, PowerPoint

presentations, and even InfoPath electronic forms or graphics stored in

a standard graphics file format such as JPEG or GIF

✓ Data sets stored within other Office application files, such as contacts

from your Outlook personal data file, financial figures stored in an Excel

workbook, or records stored in the tables of an Access database

In SharePoint, you add the discrete files you want to make available to your

teams to libraries that you create for that particular type of document

involved. You add data from other compatible files to a list that you create for

that particular type of data.