Windows SharePoint Services sites take file storage to a new level, providing communities for team collaboration and empowering users to collaborate on documents, tasks, contacts, events, and other information. Windows SharePoint Services enables team and site managers to easily manage site content and user activity. The environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment, administration and application development.

SharePoint sites provide places to capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents. The sites facilitate team participation in discussions, shared document collaboration, and surveys. Site content is accessible from both a Web browser and through clients that support Web Services. The document collaboration features allow for easy check in, check out and document version control.

INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT

The Microsoft Office System uses SharePoint site content. All of a site’s collaborative content (for example, documents, lists, events, task assignments and membership rosters) can be read and edited within Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003. Picture editing of Web-based photo libraries is also possible. Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 allows SharePoint site event calendars to be viewed side-by-side with personal calendars and it also creates meeting-specific workspaces to augment group appointments.