Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

Creating SharePoint Discussion Boards

The discussion board serves as a place for creating individual discussions and can contain many discussions. For example, each department within a company could have its own discussion board. On the IT department's discussion board, there might be a discussion about the Windows 2003 migration, another discussion for Office XP questions and answers, and a third discussion for getting input on the budget for the next year.

Default SharePoint Discussion Boards

By default, SharePoint Portal Server includes a discussion board called General Discussion accessible by clicking on Manage Content from the portal Home page. For SharePoint Services sites, the template used determines whether a discussion board is provided ...