Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2

[zoeythecat]

Hi All,

I hope this the correct forum to post. We have a Public Folder dilemma for non IE users, and i'm told that Microsoft Sharepoint server could be a good option for us. Can anyone offer any advice on price, installation and just your overall thoughts on how this product would work for us.

Thanks

 

[Zelandakh]

What is your dilemma?

Price? A lot.
Installation? A pain - get someone in.
Overall thoughts? I'd rather stick with public folders!!!

 

[zoeythecat]

Non IE users (I.E - Safari, Mozilla) can only use the OWALite version. Half our school uses macs, so we need to find an alternative. There is a master calendar that everyone in our school uses. So, that is our "Public Folder" dilemma

 

[zoeythecat]

Public folders is not available for OWALite users

 

[Zelandakh]

Entourage 2008 might be something for you then. If not, use public2private to sync a public folder into the calendars.

 

[zoeythecat]

Some users use Entourage, for those users not a problem accessing public folders. I'm not sure I understand the solution you are offering? Doesn't work for me.
Its not as simple as you make it out to be. We are a school where we do not offer a policy where everyone needs to use one application such as Entourage. Most of our students and a lot of faculty access owa using browsers such as Safari and Mozilla, and they are Mac users and need to access public folders.

My post was to get opinions on Microsoft Sharepoint and was not intended to get into a discussion about public folders.

Thanks for your thoughts though.

Regards

 

[reynolwi]

Take a look at this link from Microsoft...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/FX101758691033.aspx

Microsoft Sharepoint Server costs money and Windows Sharepoint Services is a built-in component of Windows Server 2003 and up so its free to use. We use Windows Sharepoint Services for our intranet/extranet. We didnt need all those other features of Sharepoint server so WSS works perfectly and it was free.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/product/related-technologies/Pages/windows-sharepoint-services.aspx

Wm. Reynolds
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Texas Public Safety Solutions | PremCOM

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[zoeythecat]

Wm,

Thanks for the link, I will read through everything. Do you use WSS to integrate with outlook? How is the calendaring abilities?

Thx

 

[reynolwi]

I have never had any problems. I have one of our sharepoint calendars in my outlook and it syncs just fine.

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[zoeythecat]

Thanks...This points me in the right direction.

 

[zoeythecat]

Wm,

You mention this Windows Sharepoint is a built-in service. Could you guide me how this is installed? I don't see anywhere where I can install this from Add/remove components if this is in fact a built-in service. Is this a program I need to download? Is this a feature that is on the Windows Server2003 CD? Sorry for all the questions.

Thanks!

 

[zoeythecat]

Disregard my last post. I see this is something I need to download.

Thx

 

[reynolwi]

It is a built-in feature of windows 2003 and up. I do not remember where it is on the add and remove windows features but it should be listed. It may be called WSS on the list. You can also download the latest version of it on the website so its the up-to date software.

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[zoeythecat]

I guess this is not a built-in feature of the Windows Server2003 Standard. It is a built-in feature for the Enterprise version of Windows Server2003 though. I can set this up on one of our servers that has the Enterprise.

Thanks again!

 

[reynolwi]

I run windows server 2003 standard and its a built in feature. Let me look on one of the windows 2003 server standard and on our windows server 2008 standard server boxes and see where it is at.

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[reynolwi]

Ok on the windows server 2003 r2 standard server here in our corporate office... under add/remove windows components, down at the very bottom of the list it has windows sharepoint services listed. Granted its v2 and online they have v3sp2 I have it listed on our 2003 r2 standard server.

Now you may want to download the version that is online to make sure you have the latest version. You can tell what version it is if you click on the item in the description field it tells me its Sharepoint Services 2.0

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[zoeythecat]

Thanks...I did build a Windows2003 enterprise server, but do not see this service in the Add/Remove components. I assume this is something I need to download and install. I thought it may have been a service that came installed by default.

 

[reynolwi]

The version thats suppose to be with windows server 2003 r2 standard and up is just version 2.0 and they already have version 3.0sp2 out for download so I just normally download the version online and set it up instead of installin the built in version and then having to upgrade. Its more logical to just download the current version and go on with it.

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[zoeythecat]

Great.....Thanks

 

[zoeythecat]

Wm,

All set. Downloaded the latest 3sp2 version. Installed/configured and happy.


Double star for you.

Thx