SharePoint Integration with Office

Document management and sharing are the most important features of Windows SharePoint Services. You can use these features to create, manage, and share documents easily. Because these features are integrated with Office 2007, you can easily find them and use them. Additionally, you can take advantage of these features when you use a Web browser to search, browse, or collaborate on documents that are stored on a SharePoint site.


Exchange versus POP3


Regularly we receive the question: "What is so special about Exchange that justifies the monthly fee?" or
"Why spend money on Exchange, when I can get my email for free using POP or IMAP?".

Ok. Let us first briefly explore POP and IMAP
(full comparison here):

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Comparison POP, IMAP and Exchange.


Here is a pretty comprehensive comparison between POP, IMAP and Exchange.

POP

* Not made for keeping multiple computers/devices and web in sync
* Generally, mail is downloaded from the server upon checking it (unless you use a tool like Outlook which has the ability to leave it on the server)
* Even if you leave messages on the server, if you delete on remote device, it will not delete on the server (unless you have a client tool like Outlook which will give you some options)

In today's business environment, email is more and more mission critical, when email goes down, the business goes down.

A company basically has 2 options when it comes to Exchange: in-house or outsourcing. The skills required to do email correctly. Unlike a lot of Microsoft servers, you can't just drop an Exchange server in your network and expect it to work.
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