SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6

Working Offline with SharePoint Workspace

In This Chapter

Synchronizing your team site

Working with libraries and lists in workspaces

Using search to find documents and list items

Using OneNote in addition to workspaces

Sometimes it’s nice to work with SharePoint lists and libraries without using the browser. Using SharePoint Workspace 2010, you can synchronize libraries and lists to your local computer and work with them outside of SharePoint 2010. For example, you can synchronize a team site so you can open Word documents or fill out an expense report without using the browser. You don’t even have to be connected to your corporate network. SharePoint Workspace saves all your changes locally and then synchronizes them when you are back online.

SharePoint Workspace is part of the Office Professional Plus 2010 suite, or it can be purchased separately. It is a Windows application that must be installed on your local computer in order for you to use it. Workspace replaces the Groove 2007 client application. You can check to see whether Workspace is installed by looking in ...