Team Folders

The concept of folder home pages is quite powerful, but it is hard to know where to start with this new technology. Microsoft makes it a little easier by providing one ready-made solution that is built around Exchange public folders and these folder home pages. This solution, team folders, provides a set of features that are designed to be useful to any workgroup or project team. The specific elements provided by the Team Folder Wizard in its canned form are as follows:

  • Team Contacts

  • Team Calendar

  • Team Tasks

  • Discussion Folder

  • Shared Document Folder

In essence, the wizard creates a public folder with five subfolders (actually six—there is one for administering the set of folders), but the real value is in the fact that the wizard provides ...

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