Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 for Office 2007 Users

Chapter 5. SharePoint and You

In this chapter, you will be looking at some of the personalization features of SharePoint, particularly the MOSS 2007 MySite feature. In the preceding chapters, you have seen how you can configure Web Parts and list views to make information more meaningful to you, how you can add and remove Web Parts from pages, and how to filter information. However, this is only the beginning of personalization in SharePoint and in this chapter you will look in more detail at this area. You will also look at some of the more administrator settings within MySite, settings you would normally not have access to as a "normal" SharePoint user.

The sole purpose of SharePoint with both WSS and MOSS is to enable you to share, search, and collaborate on a day-to-day basis. Most of this work is carried out within SharePoint team sites where you are controlled with user permissions and other settings that dictate how you interact with the system. However, when working with MOSS 2007, there is another site you will use on a daily basis, and many people use this site to control how they interact with the system overall: your personal space on the SharePoint server MySite.

Note

In this chapter, the term SharePoint refers to MOSS 2007 as opposed to WSS v3 only. If a feature is also available with WSS, I will state that clearly. In addition, there has recently been a lot of discussion on the Internet regarding the value of MySite mostly in terms of the disk space requirements to support ...