Groove Server / MOSS Overview
Here’s the 2nd part of the MOSS Server overview from InfoWorld. In this article, they are covering Groove:
At its most basic, Office Groove 2007 is a client-based application that allows Groovers (our term for Groove users) to share documents on their local PCs with others who have access to their Groove space; they can share these docs, chat about them, and synchronize the content so that everyone is looking at the same thing. Fortunately, this rather mundane feature set becomes far more robust with the addition of Office SharePoint Server 2007 (for more, see Part 1 of the great Office Server smorgasbord). Enabling MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) behind your Groove population allows Groove users to manage Groove spaces by team, as well as make SharePoint’s document libraries instantly accessible as Groove data — with the same security.
Try that in a traditional IT environment and you’re spending quality time with your IT staff. They’d have to setup a collaborative Web page, create access for internal users, open VPN connections to external users, and maintain a file server with the right permissions as well — easily a couple of weeks’ worth of work. With Groove and SharePoint, employees and team managers can create this entire setup all by themselves, and they can do it in just a few minutes.
If you want/need to learn about Groove, check it out: The Great Office Server Smorgasbord Part 2: MOSSing up Groove Server
