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.
