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From: Paul (pd_oflaherty_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:39:33 +0100

The version used will be down to the client, but I would imagine that they
will use STS 1.0 and not WSS (my understanding is that WSS requires Windows
Server 2003, and I do not think that this particular client is using that
version yet).

Thanks

"Mike Walsh [MVP]" <englantilainen@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:e1L%23rF$FEHA.3724@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Before I start answering your questions, could you please confirm that you
> are using SharePoint Team Services (this newsgroup) and not the latest
> version Windows SharePoint Services.
>
> I would in any case not recommend that a client new to the product uses
the
> old version since it is now over 6 months since WSS came out.
>
> If you are using WSS, then you could let me know here and post your
question
> directly to that newsgroup which is
>
> microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices
>
> Thanks.
>
> [I can't unfortunately work out 100% from your questions which product you
> are using - although only WSS has true versioning which might indicate
that
> you are using that. Also please say in which way you want to work with
> Novell and Notes - basically you can't with either version use Novell
> authorization and Notes documents can not be indexed by either product
also
> Alerts etc. require SMTP not necessarily Exchange]
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> STS FAQ at www.collutions.com/Lists/FAQ
> WSS FAQ at wss.collutions.com
> Please reply to the newsgroup
> "Paul" <pd_oflaherty@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u2$Wcs8FEHA.2052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have used Team Services a little, and recently recommended it to a
> client
> > who needed some document management as an alternative to a dedicated
> > database. A couple of questions came up which perhaps someone here can
> help
> > me to answer.
> >
> > 1. Is it possible to force a filter based on role?
> > The context here is that they want to keep prior versions of documents
in
> > libraries. A category will be set up for Current (Y or N). Ideally
> > administrators should be able to change/remove the Current filter,
whereas
> > as readers should have the Current = Y filter enforced on them. If this
> > cannot be done, is there a better way to implement versioning to produce
a
> > similar affect (force most users to view only current doc version while
> > giving administrators access to the history)? Note that office platform
is
> > 2K - I don't think Word 2K does versioning and current the versions are
> > stored as separate docs.
> >
> > 2. Custom Email notifications
> > If a "Document Expiry" date is set up as a category, is there an inbuilt
> way
> > to have certain users informed that the expiry date is due (in the same
> way
> > the users can be notified when new content is added)? If not I would
need
> to
> > create a VB app to sit on the server with ADO access to the SQL Server
> > database to provide this function. I have quite a bit of VB and SQL
Sever
> > experience, so I am assuming that this would be relatively
> straightforward.
> >
> > 3. Does it work OK on Novell/Lotus Notes?
> > Unfortunately the client has Novell and Notes. Will this restrict the
> > functionality at all?
> >
> > 4. Finally - is there a better/easier option to implement document
> > management with a web based front end that I should consider (they are
> only
> > interested in document management, though I would imagine that once they
> > have the option of creating shared discussions, calendars, tasks lists
etc
> > they will probably find them useful).
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
>
>

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