I've been tasked to automate a process that is currently somewhat
convoluted.
Documents are sent in via e-mail and make their way to a public folder
(with sub folders) in Exchange. Since public folders are going away,
this is one thing that I have to address, but that's another issue.
Suffice to say, we will have information in some place in Exchange
(probably a designated mailbox) that we'd like to somehow route this
information elsewhere (a more appropriate store for archival of
documents).
So I'm wondering if there is some kind of tool that could be used for
automating the process of pulling stuff from this designated mailbox,
over to somewhere in Sharepoint. Since I know very little about
Sharepoint and its capabilities, forgive me if this has been covered
elsewhere or if it's an often covered subject.
I'd just like to find out capabilities and then track down the how-to.

Once we get these items over to Sharepoint, we're hoping to have these
in some manner that a "supervisor" or admin of some sort, can assign
these documents into some sort of work queue for people to process,
and then they would flag these items as completed. My understanding
is that these documents would then remain in Sharepoint for future use
(several years possibly).

Re: Exchange and Sharepoint? by je

je
Mon Feb 26 16:06:00 CST 2007

Hi Les,

SharePoint (2007) allows email addresses for Document Libraries so sending a
document to a library is easy. Document Libraries allow for notification,
rss and workflow so it is not to difficult to setup any kind of workflow
that you need and these workflows can be automatically started on receipt of
a document. You can also easily built views based on a status field that you
would add to the Document Library.

Here's a demo that may give you a better idea:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102047921033.aspx

HTH,
Ed Richard



"HockeyFan" <les.stockton@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1172520491.150698.197700@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I've been tasked to automate a process that is currently somewhat
> convoluted.
> Documents are sent in via e-mail and make their way to a public folder
> (with sub folders) in Exchange. Since public folders are going away,
> this is one thing that I have to address, but that's another issue.
> Suffice to say, we will have information in some place in Exchange
> (probably a designated mailbox) that we'd like to somehow route this
> information elsewhere (a more appropriate store for archival of
> documents).
> So I'm wondering if there is some kind of tool that could be used for
> automating the process of pulling stuff from this designated mailbox,
> over to somewhere in Sharepoint. Since I know very little about
> Sharepoint and its capabilities, forgive me if this has been covered
> elsewhere or if it's an often covered subject.
> I'd just like to find out capabilities and then track down the how-to.
>
> Once we get these items over to Sharepoint, we're hoping to have these
> in some manner that a "supervisor" or admin of some sort, can assign
> these documents into some sort of work queue for people to process,
> and then they would flag these items as completed. My understanding
> is that these documents would then remain in Sharepoint for future use
> (several years possibly).
>



Re: Exchange and Sharepoint? by HockeyFan

HockeyFan
Mon Feb 26 16:29:06 CST 2007

So is this workflow a part of Sharepoint, or is it something else?
I'm really new to Sharepoint, so I'm asking newbie questions.

On Feb 26, 4:06 pm, "@je" <Ed_REM_@Software_REM_Objectives.com.au>
wrote:
> Hi Les,
>
> SharePoint (2007) allows email addresses for Document Libraries so sending a
> document to a library is easy. Document Libraries allow for notification,
> rss and workflow so it is not to difficult to setup any kind of workflow
> that you need and these workflows can be automatically started on receipt of
> a document. You can also easily built views based on a status field that you
> would add to the Document Library.
>
> Here's a demo that may give you a better idea:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102047921033.aspx
>
> HTH,
> Ed Richard



Re: Exchange and Sharepoint? by MartinNr5

MartinNr5
Tue Feb 27 06:34:41 CST 2007

On Feb 26, 11:29 pm, "HockeyFan" <les.stock...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So is this workflow a part of Sharepoint, or is it something else?
> I'm really new to Sharepoint, so I'm asking newbie questions.
>
> On Feb 26, 4:06 pm, "@je" <Ed_REM_@Software_REM_Objectives.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Les,
>
> > SharePoint (2007) allows email addresses for Document Libraries so sending a
> > document to a library is easy. Document Libraries allow for notification,
> > rss and workflow so it is not to difficult to setup any kind of workflow
> > that you need and these workflows can be automatically started on receipt of
> > a document. You can also easily built views based on a status field that you
> > would add to the Document Library.
>
> > Here's a demo that may give you a better idea:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102047921033.aspx
>
> > HTH,
> > Ed Richard- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

You don't need a workflow to enable MOSS 2007 (latest version of
SharePoint) e-mail capabilities, it's built in. Workflows are part of
MOSS 2007 (and WSS 3.0 for that matter) by default though.


-- Martin


Re: Exchange and Sharepoint? by HockeyFan

HockeyFan
Tue Feb 27 11:00:41 CST 2007

So does this mean that if we have a dedicated mailbox to send
documents, that anything sent to this mailbox will automagically
appear in Sharepoint? How do I set this up?

On Feb 27, 6:34 am, "MartinNr5" <martin.edel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 11:29 pm, "HockeyFan" <les.stock...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > SharePoint (2007) allows email addresses for Document Libraries so sending a
> > > document to a library is easy. Document Libraries allow for notification,
>
> You don't need a workflow to enable MOSS 2007 (latest version of
> SharePoint) e-mail capabilities, it's built in. Workflows are part of
> MOSS 2007 (and WSS 3.0 for that matter) by default though.
>
> -- Martin- Hide quoted text -
>


Re: Exchange and Sharepoint? by je

je
Tue Feb 27 15:09:26 CST 2007

Les,

> So does this mean that if we have a dedicated mailbox to send
> documents, that anything sent to this mailbox will automagically
> appear in Sharepoint? How do I set this up?

Yes, have you looked at the Demo?

Here are the instructions:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/winsharepointadmin/HA011608031033.aspx

Ed