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SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
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SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide

by James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Christopher Pragash, Piotr Prussak, Christopher J. Regan
September 2007
Beginner
822 pages
23h 3m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Site Creation and Management

Once SharePoint 2007 is installed on Windows Server 2003, the default site is created and located at http://server_name/Pages/Default.aspx" (default_sharepoint_site). This is your top-level site. You can modify the content and presentation of this site to make it consistent with your business type and image. All sites you create under this site will be part of your organization's site collection.

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See Chapter 7 for more information about customizing the appearance of your site collection.

Default SharePoint site

Figure 5-3. Default SharePoint site

All Site Content

Before creating new sites or modifying the default site, take a few minutes and tour the features of this site. Start with the lefthand Quick Launch menu and click the first link, View All Site Content.

As you can see in Figure 5-4, all of the standard Libraries, Lists, Discussion Boards, Surveys, and Sites and Workspaces already exist and are ready for you to use. For example, if you click on the Documents library, you are taken to an empty repository (Figure 5-5). No documents are created there by default, but you can easily upload documents from any source accessible on the server or the network. The Sites and Workspaces listed in the following sections are available to use with the default portal site.

SharePoint All Site Content page

Figure 5-4. SharePoint ...

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