SharePoint™ Team Services: Introduction and Fast Facts

SharePoint™Team Services from Microsoft® is a team Web site solution that is designed to significantly improve the way your team manages information and activities. Now you can easily create a Web site that serves as the central repository of all project information-documents, contacts, tasks, discussions, and much more.

See how a team Web site created with SharePoint Team Services helps everyone contribute and collaborate--and how easy it is to set up and customize.

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Table of Contents:
Contribute
Collaborate
Customize and Control
Learn More

Contribute

SharePoint Team Services is the easiest way for any type of team or workgroup to use the Web to share information. All it takes is a Web browser and access to a corporate network or the Internet.

A Web Site Everyone Can Use: Using preprogrammed Web-authoring forms, SharePoint Team Services lets you instantly create a full-feature Web site that your team can begin using immediately instantly. Once the site is launched, team members can add, edit, and delete information using their Web browser. Automatic hyperlink management maintains links to new material while templates protect the overall navigational structure, individual page layouts, and design elements

Out-of-the-Box Functionality: Pre-formatted forms let your team members contribute to the SharePoint Team Services-based Web site simply by filling out lists. You'll find forms for announcements, events, contacts, tasks, surveys, discussions, and links. SharePoint Team Services also makes it easy to create custom lists by building on existing forms or creating new ones from scratch.

Microsoft Office XP Integration: Office XP works seamlessly with SharePoint Team Services, so you can save documents directly to your team Web site from within any Office application, and copy items calendars and contact lists directly from Microsoft Outlook® version 2002 directly into your team's Web site. Integration with Microsoft Excel version 2002 means you can also export lists and create PivotTables® and charts to analyze information or apply text formatting.

Collaborate

SharePoint Team Services opens the door to seamless communication and efficient collaboration with a wide range of easy-to-use features.

Document Libraries: The Document Library feature of SharePoint Team Services provides a single location for storing all of your team's work. Transferring documents to the library is simple-it just takes a Web browser. And when you assign templates to your document libraries, you guarantee that all documents are consistent and compatible. Convenient text-based search and a familiar folder view make it easy to find documents in your document libraries.

Team Interaction: SharePoint Team Services helps team members share ideas through subscriptions and notifications that let everyone know when there are changes to the Web site; inline document discussions that make it easy to collaborate on specific deliverables without altering original documents; discussion boards that serves as a central forum for specific topics; and surveys, which are a useful way to get targeted responses to key issues.

Team Management: Once you've launched a SharePoint Web site, a simple e-mail invitation serves to register team members to the site, and you can assign different permission levels to each member, depending on their role. Date, time, and author stamping makes it easy to track member participation. Web-based administration lets you manage user accounts quickly and simply from within the browser.

Customize and Control

Simple to set up, a SharePoint Team Services-based Web site can easily be customized to meet the specific project demands that your group requires.

Customize from a Web Browser: You'll find all of the commands you need to adapt the SharePoint Team Services-based Web site for your team. Simple drag-and-drop functionality makes it easy to modify the home page; adding new pages and custom lists is a snap, too. You can also create custom views of information by filtering for specific criteria, sorting in a particular order, or showing and hiding columns.

Customize with Microsoft FrontPage version 2002: Take advantage of the full functionality of FrontPage to create professional-quality Web sites that offer all of the features your team needs. Advanced customization options include FrontPage Themes and shared borders, plus photo galleries, usage analysis, top ten lists, automatic Web content, and more.

A Solution That Makes Sense: Whether you use your internal corporate network or the services of a Web Presence Provider for SharePoint Team Services, launching and maintaining a SharePoint Team Services Web site is fast and easy. Running on Windows 2000 with Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 all it takes is three clicks to setup and configure your team Web site. Built-in administration features let you delegate administration of the site to a team member, reducing demands on IT staff.

Learn More

The links below provide more details on how to get SharePoint Team Services and setup, customize, and manage a team Web site.

How To Get SharePoint Team Services
SharePoint Team Services is included in Microsoft FrontPage versions 2002 and is available as a hosted service from leading WPPs. Order your upgrade copy today here, or begin by using the trial version.

Take a SharePoint Team Services Virtual Tour
Take a look at the demo(requires Flash 5.0) for complete details on all of the features and functionality that come with SharePoint Team Services.

Additional Resources For information on deploying, maintaining, and customizing SharePoint Team Services, see the SharePoint Team Overview and the SharePoint Team Services Administrative Guide.

See how SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and SharePoint Team Services can provide a complete information sharing solution for your organization at: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/evaluation/overview/technologies.asp

System Requirements

To take advantage of SharePoint Team Services for your work group, your system must meet the following requirements:

A 200 MHz Intel Pentium Processor or higher

Microsoft Windows 2000 running Internet Information Services 5.0

At least 128MB RAM

At least 70 MB of available hard-disk space; 5 MB for each provisioned Web site (For a typical installation, your hard-disk usage will vary depending on configuration. Custom choices may require more or less space.)

Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) or Microsoft SQL Server™ 7.0 or later. If you do not have SQL Server installed on your server, MSDE is automatically installed when you install SharePoint Team Services