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Product: SharePoint Team Services
Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.microsoft.com
Estimated Street Price: See Pricing
Review By: Ben C. Edwards

Final Results And Overall Mark  

Table Of Contents
1: Introduction
2: Pricing & System Requirements
3: Working with SharePoint
4: Conclusion

Well we have reached the end of the review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for the Microsoft SharePoint Team Services.

 

Final Comments

How It Grades

Installation: 99%
Stability: 90%
Ease of Use: 95%
Performance: 85%
Ease of use:
90%
Features: 95%
Recoverability: 75%
Value: 95%
Overall: 90.5%

Installation is the easiest yet that I have dealt with for a server product.  As far as stability is concerned I have had no problems whatsoever with SharePoint flaking out or something screwy going on.  It just works�.  Integration with Office XP is great and really adds value to your investment of Office Technologies.  Recoverability for SharePoint gets a C.  I have never like recovering FrontPage webs and SharePoint complicates the matter even more.  You won�t be able to change the hierarchy of your webs once you set them up the first time.  In other words if you have subwebs that utilize Team Services you won�t be able to move them to a different directory or the root level.  Just something to keep in mind to make sure you do it the way you want it the first time.  Otherwise it�s just easier to scratch the web and start anew.  For the price of FrontPage Team Services is definitely a bargain.  Overall I give it an A.  Team Services is featured packed and I am very impressed with the product as this is just a 1.0 release (and people say Microsoft can�t get it right on the first try).  It will be very exciting to see how this product matures over time. 

 

Specs & Package
Overall Score 90.5%
Version Reviewed SharePoint Team Services
Release Date Out Now
In The Box? N/A
The Good Points Installation is a snap
Document Libraries
Integration with Office XP
The Bad Points Recovering/Moving SharePoint Team Services Based Sites
Reviewers Specs

#1
Dell Dimension XPS R400
Windows XP Professional
P3 400 MHz
128 MB of RAM

#2
Dell Optiplex G1
Windows 2000 Server
SQL 2000 Server
P3 1 GHz
512 MB of RSM

PC Required

See System Requirements

 

 

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