Chapter 18: Integrating the Office 2010 Clients with SharePoint 2010
What’s In This Chapter?
- Common SharePoint integration points that exist in all of the Office suite products
- Integration of each Office 2010 application with SharePoint
- Setting up Office 2010 integration from within Central Administration and Group Policy settings
Microsoft Office 2010 is now more tightly integrated with SharePoint than any previous version. Collaboration has become an intuitive part of the user experience, and it is a familiar ingredient of all the Office 2010 applications. With SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together, teams will be able to communicate effectively, stay in touch, share questions or concerns, and, of course, work on shared content.
Believe it or not, many workers still send e-mail attachments back and forth as their only form of collaboration. There are several reasons why this is not the most efficient way to accomplish the task at hand. There can be confusion about which version of the document is the most recent, who is working on it, and who made which changes to the file. In addition, each time a document arrives in a mailbox, it takes up more space on the Exchange server. Consider the cumulative effect of a single file being sent back and forth between a handful of people four or five times — and this happening many times a day between hundreds or thousands of users. This can significantly affect server storage, especially when you compare it to saving each file in a ...
