| This is a great new product that fills a huge gap in client needs. SharePoint adoption should improve if people have fast client access. Hopefully it will be just as easy and fast to put content into sharepoint now as it is to email it! Here are my rough notes (in a handy stream-of-conciousness format) from a recent session on the tool. SharePoint Workspace Client- The SharePoint workspace has same ribbon as online site; ...The content area has 3 panes – your lists and libraries, folders next, then documents or items. A cool feature is it marks what lists have unread items.; ...SharePoint launchbar is a bookmark of your favorite SharePoint sites.; ...The “BackSpace” – some statistics about latest sync, and more; ...The SharePoint workspace will attempt to sync via both an intranet and an extranet URL.; ...SharePoint workspace sync’s all views including your personal views; ...Offline: You can save docs to the SharePoint workspace. If you do this, they’ll be local and sync later; ...SharePoint workspace shows when there are multiple document editors. Office apps also show this. When multi-user authoring happens while both are online, it has features to help you avoid save conflicts. Word supports auto –merge.; ...Document protocol via soap over http allows them to send chunks of docs at a time over the network.; ...Lists in SharePoint Workspace have a preview pane. Infopath does the preview pane; ...She demo’ed how to resovlve conflicts when two people edit the same list item in sp workspace. It showed the 2 people at the top, with a checkbox to be able to pick which version to look back. Disappointing that it’s not side-by-side or red-lined.; ...All the functionality from Groove that worked with SP2007 is available. But behind the scenes, it doesn’t use WebDav, it uses the new technology described below; ...If your permission to the SP site changes and your access is taken away, sync will stop, but you’ll have the content locally still.; ...You can’t create a new document set.; ...Version history can be viewed in SPW; ...Within SPW, you can create 2 kinds of workspaces: Groove Workspace and SharePoint Workspace. They are 2 types. Groove WS is for peer-to-peer collaboration. At server level, you can set policies to control what workspace types are available (ie, block groove workspaces) Architecture – sync and storage SPW – the SharePoint workspace datastore. Stored in SPW’s own relational database. There is also a datastore called ODC (Office Document Con?).; ...BCS – has local data store for external systems. Used by SPW and other systems.; ...When you create a local Workspace, you ask the server for the site – lists, schema, views, & content.; ...The user sends back content. Cannot add or edit lists or views from the workspace.; ...There is automatic sync on pre-determined frequency. If workspace is open in the UI it is sync’ed every 10 minutes. If workspace is closed in UI, it’s every 20 minutes.; ...The sync schedule will be automatically reduced based on a server health score. If the score gets to 5 or above (on scale of 0-10), the sync schedule will slow down.; ...Client-side edits are sync’ed immediately up to server; ...When client opens a list, if it hasn’t been sync’ed recently, SPW will sync immediately.; ...If your datastore gets too large, SPW will stop syncing and tell you.; ...Fast, anytime, anywhere access to your collaborative SharePoint content!!! ; ...Capacity planning – they don’t think this is going to affect the server infra planning but they are still testing this. It may be a trade off where the extra sync calls are balanced by fewer online actual server visits by the user. The product is in the ProPlus SKU of SharePoint. |