Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

1032 Part X: Microsoft Office 2003 Integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies
You can synchronize your data in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with data
from Windows SharePoint Services, so you can keep a local copy of Outlook items
from your SharePoint site. Calendar synchronization with Outlook 2003 works only
in one direction—from Windows SharePoint Services to Outlook 2003. After you
synchronize with the team calendar on a SharePoint site, you can work offline and
view the synchronized data side by side with other personal calendars or shared
calendars.
Windows SharePoint Services automatically updates the synchronized data in
Outlook 2003. The synchronization occurs from Outlook—so at regularly timed intervals
or when a refresh of the folder is forced, a refresh will occur by navigating to the
folder in Outlook or by selecting Refresh after clicking on the folder in Outlook. Of
course, for the synchronization to succeed, you will need to have access to the site.
This feature can help you be more productive, especially if you are a mobile
user. You can quickly create a contact list in Windows SharePoint Services by
importing contacts from the global address list in Outlook. You can quickly import
contacts from the global address list in Outlook by selecting Import Contacts on a
Windows SharePoint Services contacts list.
Integration with FrontPage
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 is a Web editor that is fully integrated with Windows
SharePoint Services. FrontPage 2003 provides a variety of WYSIWYG tools you can
use to customize and manage your SharePoint sites, including an improved table editing
tool and a collection of dynamic templates for SharePoint sites. With FrontPage
2003, you can edit and control SharePoint site components (for example, team sites,
Web Parts, or navigation) and customize the look and feel of a SharePoint site.
You can also use FrontPage 2003 to prepare usage analysis reports for Share-
Point sites so that you can track who is using your site and how they are using it. To
edit Web pages in a SharePoint site, you must be a member of a site group with the
Add And Customize Pages right for that SharePoint site.
With FrontPage 2003, you can use Windows SharePoint Services and Web Parts
to create data-driven websites. Web Parts are reusable, modular pieces of code that
you can easily add to SharePoint sites. You can use FrontPage 2003 to create Web
Parts that connect to live data from a variety of sources. For example, to add current
company sales data to your SharePoint site, you can use FrontPage 2003 to create a
Web Part that is linked to your company sales database.
FrontPage 2003 includes some powerful productivity tools for developing
websites built on Windows SharePoint Services and ASP.NET database-driven Web
applications.
FrontPage 2003 has the capacity to easily insert Web Part zones, which are regions
in a page where Web Parts can reside and which can be controlled by the user. In addition,
FrontPage 2003 has WYSIWYG tools for performing drag-and-drop operations
with Web Parts and it has a gallery of ready-made Web Parts from which to select.