Anyone Use Share Point Service

garv221

In an office environment as a substitute for mapped drives?

blargoe

A department or two in our corporate office has begun using SharePoint as the primary collaboration area for their department's content. We'd like to get more buy-in from the rest of the business but it's such a change in mindset and culture that it will not come over night.

dynamik

What exactly are you trying to do?

I believe the applications have to specifically be designed to use Sharepoint. For example, Excel and Word save directly to Sharepoint. I know a lot of things we use, such as the Adobe applications, will not be able to take advantage of this. I don't know if you can manually upload other files into it through a web browser or something, but that seems like it would be more cumbersome than simply using a share/mapped drive.

Sharepoint Services is free, so download it and play around with it.

garv221

I'm pretty familiar with it and have played with it , I am just curious to who actually uses it and how its working now. It seems like it could resolve some issues with messy public folders and make finding data easier and communication among employees better.

JDMurray

This demo is a very good explanation of what can be done with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA102055631033.aspx

garv221

JDMurray wrote:

This demo is a very good explanation of what can be done with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA102055631033.aspx

thanks JD

JDMurray

Has anyone read anything about any integration with SharePoint/BizTalk Server and Google's OpenSocial API? It seems like a whole new world of social networking features would be available to SharePoint users.