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406 Part V: Administration of Windows SharePoint Services
As team members add or delete documents, lists, discussions, and surveys,
Windows SharePoint Services automatically updates links to the content so that it’s
always easy to find. You can also create alerts so that you are notified of changes to
the site.
Pages in the site will display lists of information, allowing team members to
organize the information any way they want, such as by subject, due date, or author.
For example, you can do the following:
■ Restrict the display to see only the set of information that applies to you
■ Hide information that doesn’t interest you
■ Change the order in which the information is listed
■ Set up customized views to make it easy for your team members to focus
quickly on pertinent information
To use the features described, you will want to acquaint yourself with the management
interface where most of these features will be available to create and configure.
From the site’s Web page, select Site Settings from the top of the window.
(See Figure 16-1.) This will take you to the page for site administration. Throughout
this chapter, we will be exploring administration tasks that you will access through
this menu structure.
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Figure 16-1 Web Site Administration main menu
Using Templates
When creating sites to serve business needs, one of the first things you will need to
decide is what you want your site to look like. For instance, do you want to include
sections for announcements, members, and events? Will you want a separate part of
the page to display news items or links to other pages? Fortunately, you don’t have
to build this view of information each time you create a new site because Windows