Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

11.11. Summary

In this chapter, you looked at one of the newest additions to the Microsoft Office family of tools, Groove. Groove allows you to build your own personal collaboration network without needing a server or any special administration tools. As a peer-to-peer collaboration application that only requires Internet access to work, Groove allows you to create collaboration workspaces that include not only people that you work with, but also anyone with Internet access.

While many of the tools that Groove offers sound a lot like similar tools in SharePoint or even Office itself, Groove does not provide integration with most of these other tools at this point. Nor does it integrate its tools with corresponding Microsoft Office products like ...