I’m not a SharePoint expert by any means, but for your questions: It doesn’t require Active Directory, but then you would be making all local accounts on the server, just like with any other tool.

It works fine with Firefox, that’s what I use. More advanced features are available for IE, like embedding word and excel in the page itself. But it’s certainly not ‘crippled’ like in old versions, it appears nearly identical between browsers, including Safari. Microsoft is getting much better in this regard, OWA in Exchange 2007 has improved browser support also.

Joe

Joe Mesterhazy

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MSU Department of Radiology

133 Radiology Building

(517) 355-0120 ext. 298

From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Troy Murray
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Collaboration Option "D" - Other

Joe,

I remember SharePoint coming up before. I used, to some extent, the first to versions of it and found it complicated and lacking, however, I've heard much more positive responses based on the current version.

Two questions that come to my mind with regard to SharePoint that I'd like to know is:

1.) Does it require Active Directory?

2.) How does it "look" and "work" with non-Microsoft browsers?

Perhaps you could answer those questions?

-t

On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Joseph Mesterhazy wrote:

Well really the first thing that came to my mind was Sharepoint. It does pretty much everything that was discussed, wikis, versioning control, document management and collaboration, etc. I’m boggled why it wasn’t discussed, really.

Joe

Joe Mesterhazy

UNIX Administrator, RHCE

MSU Department of Radiology

133 Radiology Building

(517) 355-0120 ext. 298

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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:07 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Collaboration Option "D" - Other

This morning at the MSU IT Exchange we were shown three collaboration tools, vBulletin, SWAP and Angel. During the voting we were asked which one we'd choose, along with an option "D - Other". As I remember, there were a number of votes for "D - Other", but when it was opened up to suggestions there was only one, PHPvB I believe.

This lead me to wonder why "D - Other" was voted so much; was it because what was seen in the three solutions wasn't liked, because it was felt there is a better solution but not sure what it is or felt there is a better solution but were hesitant to mention it during the session?

Just curious what your thoughts were.

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