Sharepoint - 10/20/2009

• Overview of the process
• Evangelize November/December
• Start introducing SharePoint in January
• Serious implementation during Fall, 2010.
• 2010 won't be implemented until it has been out for 3 years.
• Smart Start is a different technology so it cannot be integrated.
• Live at EPCC (basically hotmail).  
• Migration is not thought through yet, they are investigating the auto-upload.
• includes chat
• Permission levels
• Owners have full control of the whole site.
• Contribute
• design/manage hierarchy required for Designer
• 3 groups will be created for a site automatically:  Members, owners and visitors
• Groups are vital to avoid confusion and frustration since you add (people to the group or permission to the group) once and the permissions automatically fall in line for everyone.  Managing by groups is more effective.
• Inheritance allows you to use the same settings across multiple sites.   It is more manageable than individual sites.
• Inheritance means you can't add people unless you add them to the group.  You must 'break' the tie if you want to a person added only to a specific subsite.  But it is definitely harder to manage.
• Keep in mind, adding to a group means everywhere that group has access, the individual automatically has access to everywhere that group has access at the level it has access.
• When adding to a group, make sure you look at group permissions to see exactly what that group has access and at what level.