I am totally new to WSS, have nothing installed, am just
investigating it, and have lots of questions. I have not found any
very basic "getting started" guide which would answer my questions,
so that's my first question. Does such a beginner's guide exist?
Anything I have seen does not talk (at least at my level) about how
to transition from a traditional shared files environment to WSS.
We have a file server with shared folders, with linked documents
(i.e. hyperlinks in Word docs to other docs & programs). Everybody
works in the various file server folders and they store the
information for the long term. We have a Windows 2003 server, Citrix
XP Server, and are about to upgrade from SBS2000 to SBS2003, so my
infrastructure for doing this is in place.
Are team sites temporary by design? I don't see how it's practical
to temporarily upload documents to a site and then move them back to
the file server for archiving purposes. I had originally hoped that
the sharepoint site would provide links to the original location of
the various documents on the file server.
Some people will find it difficult to embrace this new way of
working, so how have others handled the transition? Did you move
totally to WSS, are you keeping dual systems, how are you managing
them?
Oh, and I'm a one-person IT department of a very busy, small, non-
profit. Perhaps the way to start is to just use WSS as our
organization's intranet site and see where we can take this, but I
would appreciate any light anyone can shed on my quest to learn more
about this. Thank you!