SharePoint Team Services

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SharePoint Team Services

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• (Title)
• (Group/Division)
• Microsoft Corporation
• (Date)

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SharePoint Team Services is a team web site
solution that allows people to easily create ad
hoc workspaces to manage group activities and
work together effectively.

• Create a team web site everyone can use
• Facilitate collaboration between team members
• Customize and control to meet team needs

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Quickly create a team web site that everyone can
use

• Team Web site template
• Fully functional team web site upon installation
• Browser-based authoring (add, delete, modify)
• Automatic hyperlink management
• Pre-configured lists and document libraries
• Announcements, events, tasks, discussions
• Shared documents
• Share information with Office XP
• Import/Export Contacts
• Export events
• Save documents directly to team web site
• Export list information to spreadsheet

Instant team web site creation
Functionality that teams need
Integration with the desktop
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Facilitate collaboration between team members
Focal point for collaboration

• Work together on shared deliverables
• Document libraries
• Document and web page discussions
• Send for review
• Interactive team web site
• Subscription and notification
• Custom surveys
• General discussion
• Manage Team Participation
• Invitation wizard creates team member account
• Specify permissions
• ISP/ASP option for external/virtual teams

Idea sharing and management
Team building
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Customize and control to meet team needs
Browser-based customization

• Team-specific customization
• Customize home page layout
• Create custom lists and document libraries
• Create custom views
• FrontPage 2002 Customization
• Out-of-the-box or custom themes
• Advanced list customization capabilities
• Incorporate list and document library
  functionality into FrontPage 2002-based sites
• Reduce burden on IT resources
• Delegate simple administration tasks to site
  owners
• Manage user permissions
• User-created sub webs

Advanced customization
Delegated administration
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Comparison of Microsoft solution and competitors
solution

• Team collaborative applications category is in
  its infancy
• 3 MM users in 2001 40 CAGR (SOURCE IDC
  Report 22331)
• Major players eRoom, Lotus QuickPlace,
  HotOffice, Groove
• Software offerings
• No clear leader, many participants
• Current offerings are expensive (Server CAL)
• Service offerings
• Questionable sustainability in current .com
  climate
• No partner model
• Peer-to-peer offerings
• Heavy reliance on bandwidth and hardware

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