A Couple of Groove Questions

[mtbcpa]

We are a small firm (10 people) and recently purchased a version of
Office 2007 with Groove. We are a CPA firm and we need to create a
space where we can share our own answers about certain tax laws, post
files with templates for how to deal with certain situations, etc.
Groove seems like it may be a solution for us, but I have a couple of
questions:

1. Is the discussion forum information and files stored on some
Microsoft server, or are they maintained on my computer? I don't want
to create a valuable database of information and files that is
unuseable if Groove is every discontinued.

2. Is there a better solution out there for something like this?

Thanks!

 

[Mark Smith]

Hi mtbcpa

Good questions.

1: Information is stored on your computer (s), though it is often routed
through relay servers at Microsoft.

2: Not that I know of. You could set up and manage an internal Sharepoint
site. bu thats a bigger and more expensive job.

Note - in the current release of Groove, finding information can be tricky,
so you'll need to plan how you'll organize it.

 

[c1sbc]

You can integrate the Groove client with SharePoint using the Groove
SharePoint Files tool. This would give access to non-Groove clients using
SharePoint.
SharePoint (WSS 3) is a 'free' add-on to the Windows 2003 server (or Small
Business Server 2003).

SBC


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