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Using SharePoint Workspace

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Using SharePoint Workspace

If you have the Professional Plus Edition of Office 2010, you are going to find that you have a program called Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. This is the new version of what used to be called Groove. And what it lets us do is have offline copies of the content in our SharePoint sites. If I go to one of the SharePoint sites that I use a lot, I can decide to synchronize this entire site, so I have got an offline copy. I can do that by using my Site Actions menu, which has an option, Sync to SharePoint Workspace. Now, not every single list will synchronize down to your own desktop. In fact, it's very common that really what you're mainly interested in is say a document library. So I could go into a document library, go to the Library section of the Ribbon, and this itself has a Sync to SharePoint Workspace button. I click that. If I'd never used SharePoint Workspace before, it will ask me just to fill in a bit of simple data, like what's my name, what's my email address. Then it's…

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