What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services?
Windows SharePoint Services (referred to generically as SharePoint) is a tool to help organizations, teams and business units to be more effective by connecting people and information. It provides the infrastructure for collaboration and a foundation for building and creating Web Sites to share information with other users; however, you do not need to have expertise in designing web sites to get started.SharePoint provides places to capture and share ideas, information, communication and documents. The sites facilitate team participation. The document libraries allow for easy checking in and checking out of documents and version control.
A SharePoint Site can have many subsites. Similar to storing file in folders, you can store them within SharePoint sites. However, SharePoint takes file storage to a new level by providing communities for team collaboration. You can create and use a SharePoint site for any purpose. For example, you can build a site to serve as a primary web site for a team or create a site to facilitate a meeting. A typical SharePoint site may include information such as shared document libraries, contacts, calendars, task lists, discussions, etc. The sites can be easily searched and users can be alerted when documents have been changed or new ones added.
