Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Holistic Workspace Management

While managing the workspace consists of managing, configuring, and updating perhaps multiple workspaces and dashboards, the initial goal of workspace management is simply creating the workspace itself. The next few pages address creating and deleting workspaces, followed by holistic, or end-to-end, workspace administration considerations. Finally, we conclude this section with a discussion on managing multiple workspaces.

The bulk of time initially spent managing workspaces really amounts to administrative and similar tasks. Later, as the SharePoint Portal Server evolves and workspaces morph into, or are replaced by, newer instances, or are split to support new organizational requirements and boundaries, it becomes ...