Using the Links List to Provide and Share Shortcuts

The links list is used for posting hyperlinks to web pages and other places of interest to users of the site. For example, if SharePoint is being used as an intranet for a company, it would probably be useful to have a link to the company's external corporate website from its SharePoint site. On a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 site, or top-level Windows SharePoint Services site, the Links list on the Home page may also contain links to subsites for easy navigation.

In addition to pointing to a website, a link can also be created to point to a file share. If a company has files on its network that are not being migrated to SharePoint, a link can be created to take users directly to the file share ...

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