Sharepoint comes in at least two flavors: Sharepoint and Sharepoint =
Portal services. Sharepoint is actually a free software and you pay for =
Portal. The latter has extra features. We have been using Sharepoint =
for a few years now and it integrates fully with Active Directory (our =
database of user accounts) for permissions and email integration.
I have found it a great resource for the tech minded and to a degree the =
not so tech savvy. It excels at document management with very good =
document version control available. It also has something called =
workspaces that integrates with Microsoft Exchange's event/appointment =
tools to create an online web space to accumulate notes, documents, etc. =
about a meeting.
Unfortunately, the learning curve is a bit too steep for my users at the =
moment. In today's era of wikis, blogs, nings, Google docs, and other =
web 2.0 tools, it falls short for where it should be in terms of =
simplicity and configurability. Keep in mind that I have been using it =
far in advance of the genesis of any of these tools mentioned.
I purchased the Portal version last year, but have yet to implement. My =
main reason for the purchase was the inability of the standard version =
to be backed up at a granularity that allowed a single document to be =
restored if deleted rather than the entire database.
Cheers,
m
Matt Pearson=20
Director of Technology, Security and Safety, MCDS=20
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From: A forum for independent school educators =
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Bedrick
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:30 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Microsoft Sharepoint
Anybody have any experience with Microsoft Sharepoint?=A0 They were just =
here for a meeting and everybody was impressed with the sales pitch.=A0 =
Just curious if anybody knows if they can follow through on the promises =
and how sophisticated we as users=A0need to be to take advantage of all =
the functionality.=A0 Thanks
Brian Bedrick
International School of Brussels
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