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Understanding Sites and Workspaces

In addition to the concept of a SharePoint site, Windows SharePoint Services includes the concept of a workspace. A workspace is a subsite designed for managing information concerning meetings, events, and other tasks that are part of the functions of an existing site. For example, you may have a SharePoint site for the IT department, but create a Meeting workspace to manage meetings about a specific IT upgrade project.

Both sites and workspaces take up the same logical space, and both can include separate sets of user accounts, if necessary. For example, a top-level site (for example, http://servername/sites/marketing) may contain a subsite (for example, http://servername/sites/marketing/bobsgroup) and a workspace ...