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Sharepoint limitations

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i'm debating a sharepoint implimentation in our office. we have a server running server 2003, but there are a couple things that may hold us back.

- we do not have a local instance of ms sql. we do have access to a remote sql server, but the connection is over a t1 to a parent office. how much data does sharepoint pull from the server?

- a big selling point for management to invest the time in development will be collaboration on project documents/samples. i realize one has to be on the intranet to check out documents and work on them, but we have offsite people w/o local access. how well does the merge documents feature work w/in sharepoint?

thanks for any advice...
 
- Everything (all content) is stored in the DB. SharePoint is constantly accessing it. Though, I think it comes with WMSDE wich should be sufficient for small installations. You could use that instead of the remote SQL server.
- I have used this specific features, but SharePoint does well for collaboration. But, you must be using Office 2003. Most, if not all, the cool collaboration features require this. The offsite people will need access to the server to use the feature. All documents that are stored in SP are stored as blobs in the SP database. So, you will either need to forward to it from the internet, or give them VPN access.
 
It most definitely can use WMSDE and installs it by default if you do not explicitly specify you are installing to a remote SQL server. While I was testing our sharepoint before mass implementation I used the WMSDE and it worked quite sufficiently. We moved it to a DB server mainly so we could have our backups done more easily. Plus our Sharepoint server is a VM so offloading a lot of the I/O to a remote server was better for performance.
Merging documents works great, I have to update excel spreadsheets all of the time from my desktop to the sharepoint server to keep track of IT purchases. It has made life much easier/organized as a central place for Execs and IT staff to keep track and informed of whats going on.
 
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