Collaboration Portal Services

Increase the value of information assets from Team Collaboration & Information Sharing

Windows® SharePoint™ Services lets you create a central location where coworkers, partners, and customers can share issues, contacts, announcements, Web links, and calendars. Team members can easily create workspaces for meeting discussions, surveys, documents, task lists, and other collaboration needs that increase their productivity. Using Web parts, lists, and document libraries, a Document Workspace creates an environment centered on one or more tasks, projects, or documents.

Collaboration on Projects,Tasks & Documents

Site users with "create sub-site" rights and administrators can generate a Document Workspace site from any compatible Office program (Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Excel 2003, or PowerPoint 2003) or by using a browser to access a Document list in the SharePoint site. Users that have no Office programs installed can still view documents using viewers provided by Windows SharePoint Services.

Creating Sites & Workspaces

Enabling "Self-Service Site Creation" allows users to create their own top-level site, which eliminates the need for administrators to create one on demand. Users can click a link on the home page and enter information on the signup screen. Windows SharePoint Services will then create the new site with the user as the owner and administrator. For example, sales and marketing managers can create a site to manage all their sales- and marketing-related activities.