Chapter 11. Peer-to-Peer Collaboration with Groove

If you are wondering what Groove is, you are not alone. Groove gets the award as the newest and least known addition to the Microsoft Office Suite. Groove provides you with a personal collaboration area where you can bring together small teams from within or even outside your company. You can even invite friends and neighbors into your collaboration site. Within your site, you can

  • Share documents

  • Create calendars

  • Participate in discussions

  • Publish forms

  • Track issues

  • Hold meetings

  • Share pictures

  • And more

Most importantly for you, one of Groove's tools lets you share files between a SharePoint document library and a Groove-based file tool.

The fact that you can do all of these things without involving ...

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