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In almost every office, it eventually becomes necessary for users to collaborate on documents. In the past, this has often meant that the administrator has to set up a special location for the shared documents and create a special security group made up of the users who will need access to the shared documents. In Windows Vista though, it is possible for users to set up some share points of their own, but in a controlled manner that is unlikely to cause administrative headaches. In this article, I will show you how it works.

Although I’ve always liked Windows XP on the whole, I’ve always found it to be a bit lacking in collaboration features. For example, what happens when a group of users in your company need to collaborate on a document? Assuming that you haven’t set up a special shared folder on a file server, and you don’t have a SharePoint portal set up, the users probably just end up E-mailing the document back and forth. Windows XP does allow you to share folders with other users, but doing so opens a can of worms, so most administrators prevent users from creating file shares on their computers.

In Windows Vista though, the entire file and print sharing mechanism has been completely redesigned in a way that allows users to collaborate on projects, while still allowing administrators to preserve at least some degree of security. File and Print Sharing in Windows Vista

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