Re: Using SharePoint to host documentation

Subject: Re: Using SharePoint to host documentation
From: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
To: Jim <jameswitkin -at- gmail -dot- com>, Scott Turner <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 04:50:42 +0000

So I read this as, yes you can... but whether you should really depends on
your needs and your use case!

-Tony

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 19:32 Scott Turner <quills -at- airmail -dot- net> wrote:

> Yes you can. There are issues with it, mainly because designing in
> SharePoint is a PITA. We use SharePoint mostly as a web server, but we
> write our own pages manually, which are fairly simple. It allows us to
> organize and present functional documentation in a manner that reduces the
> need of a user to look through a pile of unorganized presentation.
>
> For those outside of your firewall it is problematic.
>
> > On Dec 1, 2016, at 15:03, Jim <jameswitkin -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone used SharePoint as a place to host technical documentation,
> not
> > just for internal use but also accessible to people outside our firewall?
> > If I am using MS Word as my authoring tool, are there any advantages to
> > using SharePoint to publish? Does SharePoint serve HTML pages? Thx
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Using SharePoint to host documentation: From: Jim
Re: Using SharePoint to host documentation: From: Scott Turner

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