Chapter 10. Collaboration and Portals

Throughout the lineage of Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies, there has always been one focal point: collaboration. Although the product suite has expanded with each major release, its roots as a collaboration tool remain evident and manifest themselves in the product’s mature functionalities for streamlining collaborative work.

In simple terms, collaboration is the group activity through which people, usually from disparate locations or teams (or both), come together to work toward a common goal. The work product ...

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