What a long week! I spent this whole week taking some SharePoint training classes and my brain is tired. It was kind of nice to be a way from work but I know I have a lot of work to get caught back up on next week. Especially since I’ll be on vacation the week after.

Anyway, back to SharePoint…my company is interested in implementing at least some of SharePoint internally so after playing with it for a while, I decided I probably should take some classes before going any further with it. It’s flexible (almost too flexible) and can be very confusing.

After a week of classes, I have a better understanding of it but I still find pieces of it confusing. There are just a lot screens that look similar and often have similar functionality but you can only get to them in very specific ways. It can be difficult to find the specific screen you need to find. Even the instructor got lost in the interface a few times, so I don’t feel too bad when that happens now.

Overall, I see some great potential in SharePoint but I also see the potential for a lot of work maintaining it. Luckily for now, we’re only going to be using WSS 3.0 and not the full SharePoint 2007 software and we’re only going to roll it out to one department at a time. More than likely, we’ll eventually start using the full version but for now, the basic version will make a big difference…better document management, document versioning, better and easier to use interface than our current Intranet, etc.

I’m excited!