Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration

SharePoint Workspace—the New Groove

Microsoft introduced the Groove application in Office 2007, as an offline collaborative tool. The purpose of Groove was to share calendars, task lists, and file folders with other Groove users across the Internet. The Groove client leveraged Microsoft's Groove servers in the cloud, or organizations could deploy their own Groove server.

Collaborative tool, task lists, file share, and so on—the Groove application sounds very much like SharePoint! This was the problem; Groove closely mirrored the collaboration functionality of SharePoint. The SharePoint and Groove worlds were not isolated. Groove users could synchronize document libraries with SharePoint and then make these libraries available to their Groove ...