Updated: July 10, 2020 (July 19, 2010)
Analyst ReportSharePoint Server Enhances Web Collaboration
SharePoint Server 2010 delivers social networking and other improvements for sharing information and communicating via SharePoint sites. The improvements will particularly benefit users on intranets and extranets, helping them locate experts and keep in touch with contacts inside their organizations. However, many of the features raise tricky policy and enforcement problems. They will also squeeze partners such as Jive and Newsgator that have offered SharePoint extensions for Web collaboration, and their customers will have to decide whether to migrate to the corresponding new capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010.
(This chapter covers new SharePoint collaboration features other than Office 2010 document sharing, which is covered in the chapter “Document Sharing with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010“.)
SharePoint for Web Collaboration
SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation can be used for many types of Web sites, including conventional public-facing Web sites and portals that give employees and partners access to corporate resources. However, the most common use of SharePoint sites is internal collaboration: enabling users to share data and communicate via user-managed team or personal Web sites. Some of the most striking improvements in SharePoint Server 2010 are social networking and bookmarking features adopted from popular collaboration Web sites such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. These features are intended to help users do the following:
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