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Understanding document workspaces

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Understanding document workspaces

Let's take a look at another very common SharePoint site. And this one is called a Document Workspace. What I'm looking at here is a Document Workspace immediately after it's been created. In some senses, it looks very similar to a Team Site. It doesn't have the stock imagery, but it has a lot of the same elements, the same default color scheme, the navigation along the left, the same elements along the top and the Ribbon. The difference is the focus of the site. The Team Site is organized around a support system for a team of people. The Document Workspace is a support system for working on a complex document. Sure, there's nothing that stops you working on documents the way you always have. But if you have a complex document, a business plan, an annual report, you need to get involvement from lots of people across different teams, the different roles providing different information, lots of resources to track. You need to input, and you need to manage that input. This is a site you…

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