Sharepoint Made Easy

Well this isn’t actually a SharePoint frequently answers and question section but it is vital to know what actually a SharePoint TEAM site really is.

When I started out mingling with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), I didn’t know the importance of a SharePoint TEAM site. I stared creating pages based on the fantastic 40 templates by Microsoft like booking of rooms, document routing calendaring and many more. I wasn’t bothered of what a TEAM site is all about anyways.

The awakening however appears when my company made the move from WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) to MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server). Till then I have only attended one course conducted by a training centre for end-users, not much on development though but I stared to realize by then that a TEAM site has a much more importance in SharePoint deployment for your company.

So what’s actually a SharePoint TEAM site?

If you are constructing sites on SharePoint and you want the main site to be seperated by different subsites ( example based departments, units or groups), then the SharePoint TEAM template is the template you should use to begin with.

Let’s say I’m have a SharePoint server named “SidewinderInc” and I want to create SharePoint subsites for 3 departments namely Operations, Sales and Finance.

Now from the main site (which is also a TEAM site by default) of “SidewinderInc“, I created 3 new TEAM sites for the 3 new TEAM sites for the departments mentioned above.

As illustration let’s check out the diagram below :-

You will roughly get the idea.

It is more of a best practice and planning for a SharePoint infrastructure is very important. I actually have to redo the whole damn thing, mind you and it’s called because of negligence and improper research and planning.

So map out your company’s infrastructure and plan the site in due diligence before creating sites for your company.