RE: Portal Areas or WSS Sites for Libraries?

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From: Desi (Desi_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:51:03 -0700

The big reason that we us WSS is that you can set permissions for each individual web part (document library) whereas on the portal site of the house, permissions are set for the area/subarea. So if you have multiple Doc Libraries in SPS everyone that has access to that area will have permission to modify each document library in that area. Would prefer to have the same permissions set in both SPS and WSS, hopefully in version 3 of Portal. 

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Desi
"BCM" wrote:
> All,
> 
> We have been given the recommendation twice that we use WSS Sites to house document libraries for our "controlled content" stores.  This is in contract to our own initial intent to use Portal Areas to house these libraries.
> 
> OK - we're not claiming to be experts!  And we want to do what is "right" (or at least reasonable)!
> 
> But .. neither of those making the recommendation could give us any actual reasons for doing it one way vs. the other.  Just generzal comments like "We've never seen it done that way before." or "That's the way it's generally done."  What we want to know is WHY?
> 
> Then we can decide to "live with the issues" and stay as is, or justify the restructuring time / effort to our management.  Any help out there?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> BCM