SharePoint Team Services - Web-style intranet collaboration
May 31, 2001 | Author: Michael Stromann
Today, Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its office suite Office XP, which includes an interesting tool for intranet collaboration - SharePoint Team Services. However, this is not a completely new technology but a new name for the Office Server Extensions package. But unlike its predecessor, SharePoint Team Services is a web-based application that works not in Outlook but in Internet browser. Sharepoint Team Services allows you to create an intranet or extranet sites for collaboration and data access. To simplify the site creation it uses the Web Parts technology that we have already mentioned. Sharepoint Team Services contains templates for standard pages: Document Library, Custom List, Survey, Discussion Board, Links, Announcements, Contacts.
SharePoint Team Services is included in MS Office FrontPage web editor, but Microsoft promises to include it by default in the operating system Windows. And obviously, in this case, this Web-style intranet collaboration tool will become very popular. Note also that this summer, Microsoft will release a new product SharePoint Portal Server, which is the enhanced paid version of SharePoint Team Services.
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