I can add to the answers already given but my focus is on the way it
looks in other browsers, the look is clean because of the CSS principles
applied and you will not see a difference that is night and day like
during the old Netscape and IE 4 handling of DHTML and tags like blink
and tabled sets.
It will look the same for most of the functions. I run four version
2.0's outside of MSU for profit, but I don't do design for those; I
built them and secure them though. I do run MOSS 2007 (V3) that ties in
great with MS office 2k7 and allows for RSS feeds the alert feature per
list or right down to a thread. It has a built in WIKI starter, and has
a good search feature. It can be ran stand alone or in a web farm
environment with a good sql backend. It has its own backup utility to
assist with recovery should the need arise and has all the versioning,
workflow and upload/download features available now.
It allows you the admin to let users create groups with in the site/farm
and they can do their own content management and invite other users, if
they are not on our current network we can make those users an account
to use. The final piece I like is the double stage recycle bin. Should
a group delete something we go in as admins and restore from the master
recycle bin.
I can see many great uses for it and I need to mention that 40
administrative templates are available now that cover everything from
helpdesk to inventory tracking, a set of templates for higher ed are
being designed currently and I can not wait to see those. You can make
custom lists all day if you want to have some kind of forms or surveys
made right out of the gate.
Data base tie ins, and other sites are also linkable like ANGEL.
Too bad there are way too many Microsoft critics out there who haven't
updated their experiences with testing out the newer products in a
strong lab to compare what they remembered to now.
Timo.
Timo Vasquez- D.S.S. Team Member
Michigan State University
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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
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From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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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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