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
Administrative
Information Services
517-353-4420 ext 249
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
Behalf Of Troy Murray
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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