Full site membership is required for this article. Already a full member? Login here. You currently have a guest membership. You can upgrade to full site membership here (free trial available). Introducing Windows SharePoint Services   Article Abstract: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services presents a collaborative working platform under Windows environment. It ideally enables users to work interactively, and share information together. SharePoint sites provide a central storehouse for documents, information, and ideas. Microsoft Windows 2003 server offers this service for free. The construction of Microsoft Windows SharePoint services revolves around ASP.NET on the Internet Information Services (IIS) server. This article presents its readers a basic overview of Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server and how these two can work in collaboration in minimizing the need for custom software development.   Read this article...

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RE: Introducing Windows SharePoint Services
by David Fine (posted: 6/26/2008 8:48:15 AM)
As a person unfamiliar with FrontPage and now SharePoint, I would appreciate some examples of what SharePoint is meant to accomplish.

For example, the article says: "enables sharing of documents and other information in a distributed and collaborative environment."

My guess is that SharePoint takes data in a dos/windows file structure (such as an L:\ drive) and creates a list of documents that contain certain key words (for example). Then one person or a whole team could use this list to find what they need from what everyone has placed in the directory. Is this guess in the ballpark?

David