10 things you should know about Microsoft's SharePoint Services

Microsoft's SharePoint Services is a Web-centric document management technology that Microsoft is leveraging as a collaborative mechanism. But, as this document explains, there is much more to it than that.

Microsoft's SharePoint Services gives you a lot of features you may have found yourself wishing for, features you couldn't have because you'd have to go to the trouble of rolling your own or fiddling with your infrastructure in order to achieve them. Some of these features might not be immediately apparent if you look at SharePoint as only a Web-centric document management technology. This download explores 10 aspects of SharePoint Services that take it well beyond mere document collection to become a potential enterprise solution for collaboration and communication, including:

• SharePoint extends Exchange Server
• SharePoint sites are highly customizable
• Metadata can be used to create dynamically parsed storage systems

In what innovative ways have you used Microsoft's SharePoint Services? Is there something you think the TechRepublic community should know about SharePoint; something we should include in this list?

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