Section 1.4. Going Public

1.4. Going Public

SharePoint creates web sites. That means your documents can be made public over the Internet, shared within a private intranet, or both. My site is public, but access to certain areas is restricted so that no one steals my chapters.

I assigned different permissions to different members of my site. As site administrator, I have full control; Simon and John are contributors and can make changes; my technical reviewers can read files; and so on. Once the chapters are complete, I move

animal 1-4. SharePoint sites provide tools to communicate with team members

selected excerpts to a public area that allows everyone to read them. I maintain these levels of access from a web page within the SharePoint site as shown in Figure 1-5.

Membership is a key aspect of SharePoint. In most organizations, individuals may belong to many different teams. Some teams are organizational (company, division, department, etc.) while other teams span organization lines (project teams , task forces, and so on). SharePoint accommodates both structures well; there's a lot more on this in Chapter 2.