Sharing with OneNote?

[brettr]

Does OneNote (2007) make sharing online any easier than previous Office
versions? I know I've never been able to get any Office application to
collaborate over the Internet.

Thanks,
Brett

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Hi Brett,

Yes it does in certain cases. Can you describe the scenario you are
trying to address? That makes it easier to give you a good answer.

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[brettr]

It's been a while since I tried it. When it did, it was two PCs and I
wanted to share a Word document. It would never go. Mainly something
with the server choice. I than remember trying my hosting server,
which I think had Office Extension installed. I would still get errors
when trying to share.

I'm wondering if all of that still goes on. In short, does it take
effort (you have to fight with it) to get sharing working or is it two
clicks?

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

ON 2007 is designed to allow you to share OneNote notes. Such notes can
contain embedded files (e.g. a full Word file). The main fight you'll
have is in setting up the connection. If you can get both PCs connected
via a VPN, then you can use a simple Windows file share to keep them
synced. If not, then you have to look into WebDAV or SharePoint Server
as the place to host your OneNote files.
However, in your scenario, I don't think ON sounds like the solution you
are necessarily looking for. ON is not primarily a mechanism to share
documents, but rather to share notes. If you just want to share
documents, you should look into Groove 2007 as a peer-to-peer solution,
or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a client-server solution.

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