Mastering Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2

Chapter 28. File Shares Made Even Better: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Information—everything from a multinational company's finances down to the middle name of your mother's aunt's cousin—has become the focus of the century. For better or worse, modern technology makes it possible to store almost every detail about almost any topic. Between regulations and sound business tracking, it is safe to say that virtually all of the information pursuant to a company's decisions will end up being kept for many years. Becoming well informed is no longer the challenge; the new dilemma is where the heck to store all of this information!

Data organized into files can reside in a number of repositories. For the past several generations, the solution has been ...