The intention of this chapter is for the readers to identify themselves as a particular type of end user in the workplace and recognize this type of end users' behavior, what version of SharePoint their company has deployed, and how it has been deployed with regard to access. Depending on the edition, this will affect the deployment approach as obviously functionalities are different in Foundation, Standard, and Enterprise.

If the Foundation version has been deployed, it is worth asking the IT department if there is a department time frame for Standard or the Enterprise edition to be deployed within the company.

This question should be asked if the user base is still using Office 2003 rather than Office 2010.

Even though you may not fully know all of SharePoint 2010's features, we recommend that you think about what daily team-based tasks can be moved into SharePoint such as action items from meetings, project issue tracking, and team communications

The next chapter details SharePoint's actual components at a high level so you will have an understanding of how SharePoint sites and its content are architected and used by end users.