[wdvltalk] RE: SharePoint as an intranet
Howard and ravenstudio2, thanks for your comments. I've used STS before as collaboration software and was pretty happy with it in that mode, but I agree that it just doesn't seem suited for informational sites. Sean, I know it's expensive and overkill. :-) Since I'm growing wiser with age, I'm not commenting further at this point on that particular detail. :-) :-) But thanks a bunch for the CM links, I'll be looking at them today. I've hardwired a website for content management on our current site that feeds a database but am looking for other ideas as well. Will - I'm mailing you offlist. Thanks for the info. Tim The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
[wdvltalk] RE: SharePoint as an intranet
Tim We are currently experimenting with a hosted version of Sharepoint. It's working very well for us, but it's not replacing anything that exists. The purpose of the site is wholly collaboration-calendaring, issue lists, shared documents and discussions. What's working best for us? There is absolutely 0 resistance to using the thing. The ease of use for the end user is tremendous. If they have Office 2003 it's very compelling. But our use of the tool is it's original intention, collaboration software. -Original Message- From: Furry, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] SharePoint as an intranet Has anyone used Microsoft's Sharepoint 2003 to build an intranet? I'm not talking about the Team Services part, but the Portal. It's being highly recommended by powers that be that I use it to build a replacement intranet for our company. The more I research it the more it looks like a bad fit. Our intranet currently consists of things like: office information (addresses, etc. for our three offices); human resources online forms (things like W-4 for taxes, etc.); lists of committee members, telephone numbers, boards, etc.; introductory pages for new people; maps of the main office (we have three floors of a large building); policies such as dress code, assignment flow, etc.; office procedural guidelines; equipment manuals for operating various office machines; a weekly newsletter; a small application that the receptionists use to track where people are; and access-limited links to various small apps that I've built. SPS provides...er...um...document management and indexing (supposed to be very good at this), list management (lists of links, lists of announcements, lists of tasks, etc.), and...um...hmmm. If you tack on the Team Services part you can add more announcements, tasks, and a sort of file storage that really stores things in a database (MSDE)...which means if the MSDE corrupts (not likely, but still...) you can't recover any of your files (unlike a real file system where you could probably recover most of them if it corrupted). I've been searching all morning for intranet solutions built on SPS but am not having much luck finding anything where our model fits into their model. Is it just me, or is there a serious difference in how things are set up? I know I can convert all our forms, policies, maps, people lists, etc. into documents and store them as documents, etc., but doesn't that sort of end up like using a bulldozer to pull a weed? *ANY* responses with any SPS exposure greatly appreciated. Thanks. Tim The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
[wdvltalk] RE: SharePoint as an intranet
Hi Tim, I have a buddy whose business right now is instructional classes in Sharepoint. He may be able to answer some of your questions. Email me off list if you are interested in his contact info. HTH, Will Stewart -Original Message- From: Furry, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] SharePoint as an intranet Has anyone used Microsoft's Sharepoint 2003 to build an intranet? I'm not talking about the Team Services part, but the Portal. It's being highly recommended by powers that be that I use it to build a replacement intranet for our company. The more I research it the more it looks like a bad fit. Our intranet currently consists of things like: office information (addresses, etc. for our three offices); human resources online forms (things like W-4 for taxes, etc.); lists of committee members, telephone numbers, boards, etc.; introductory pages for new people; maps of the main office (we have three floors of a large building); policies such as dress code, assignment flow, etc.; office procedural guidelines; equipment manuals for operating various office machines; a weekly newsletter; a small application that the receptionists use to track where people are; and access-limited links to various small apps that I've built. SPS provides...er...um...document management and indexing (supposed to be very good at this), list management (lists of links, lists of announcements, lists of tasks, etc.), and...um...hmmm. If you tack on the Team Services part you can add more announcements, tasks, and a sort of file storage that really stores things in a database (MSDE)...which means if the MSDE corrupts (not likely, but still...) you can't recover any of your files (unlike a real file system where you could probably recover most of them if it corrupted). I've been searching all morning for intranet solutions built on SPS but am not having much luck finding anything where our model fits into their model. Is it just me, or is there a serious difference in how things are set up? I know I can convert all our forms, policies, maps, people lists, etc. into documents and store them as documents, etc., but doesn't that sort of end up like using a bulldozer to pull a weed? *ANY* responses with any SPS exposure greatly appreciated. Thanks. Tim . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
[wdvltalk] RE: SharePoint as an intranet
Sharepoint 2003 is expensive, not only the app, but the system requirements. It needs it's own server - cannot be on the same server as Exchange, for example. Good for large organisations with a gazillion documents, particularly when intranet/internet/extranet are all mixed into the portal. For plain vanilla intranet, it's overkill, big time. You may want to consider content management solutions, such as WUB and eWebEdit: http://www.xemico.com/wub/ http://www.ektron.com/ewebeditpro.aspx ie, build the intranet, then staff can easily edit it later. TeamIntel is nice... http://www.virtualglobal.com/ Sean The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
