With Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, you can quickly set up a team website for your small business, even if you have no advanced computer skills. That way, you and your employees can easily capture and share ideas, information, communication, and schedules — around the office or around the world.
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Business Benefits| • | Collaboration Has Never Been so Easy
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services can help your employees work together easily and complete projects, even if they are spread halfway around the world. Unlike costly intranets, SharePoint is easy to set up and inexpensive to maintain. As soon as you create an account, your SharePoint Services website is ready to use, complete with a main announcements page, online discussion lists, and document libraries.
With a SharePoint website in place, you and your employees can: | • | Share information with enhanced security and work together with employees and customers from any location. | | • | Send automatic e-mail alerts to team members whenever content changes. | | • | Facilitate online discussions for easy collaboration and document review. | | • | Assign different levels of access to users using flexible, role-based security. | | • | Get input from team members through customisable online surveys. | | • | Maintain group calendars, announcements, and contact lists. | | • | Share pictures using the picture library, including special features such as thumbnails and slide show, along with different download options. | | • | Use familiar Microsoft Office System tools to improve team collaboration. |
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| • | Streamline Document Sharing and Review
You’ll always have easy access to important documents wherever you are. The Windows SharePoint Services document library lets you access important files from any computer with an Internet connection and a compatible Web browser. In addition, team members can easily review documents and projects using the team website.
Using a SharePoint website team members can: | • | Transfer documents from any computer to an online document library. | | • | Capture, share, and develop ideas, information, communications, documents, business plans, photos, drawings, and more. | | • | Discuss documents online without revising them. | | • | Support your specific business needs with custom templates for lawyers, doctors, schools, and more. | | • | Take advantage of great support features such as sub-folders, file versioning, and check-in/check-out. | | • | Add events and announcements for your company or team quickly and easily. | | • | Track tasks and issues with custom lists. |
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| • | Get Up and Running Quickly
Using only a Web browser, you can set up and customise client- or project-specific workspaces within minutes. Your employees can access the site from any computer using an Internet connection and a compatible browser.
In addition, if you use Microsoft FrontPage® 2003, you can customise the site using themes and shared borders; add, move and delete pages in the navigation view; and incorporate photo galleries, automatic Web content, usage analysis, and Top 10 lists.
Quickly set up your SharePoint team site with: | • | Drag-and-drop tools to customise your home page layout quickly and easily. | | • | User management to set up member accounts and easily invite new users by e-mail. |
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| • | Create and Use Web Pages Easily
Are you looking for a website to help manage a business or project, or a site that lets team members easily work together on documents? | • | Set up a public or private site (restricted access) in minutes. | | • | Easily select from the template gallery, and customise your SharePoint site. | | • | Modify the page by adding text, pictures and tables using only a Web browser — no programming experience required. | | • | Create a separate site under the main site for different teams and projects. | | • | Use for knowledge-intensive sites, service businesses, and anyone requiring group or team collaboration. |
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| • | Benefit From Platform Features
Putting a SharePoint Services site in place for your business is a fast, cost-effective way to facilitate team communication.
Features include: | • | Templates: You can create custom site templates for distribution across teams. In addition, team members can save customised lists for reuse as templates. | | • | Web Parts: Developers can create Web Parts to integrate existing applications to the site and make them available for reuse by adding them to the site library. | | • | .NET Framework: Sites are built on ASP.NET and can be extended easily using the .NET Framework included with Windows Server 2003. | | • | Developer support: The MSDN® site contains information for developers about customising sites on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies page. |
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