SharePoint team Web sites provide a place on the Web where your team can communicate, share documents, and work together on a project. You can create a separate team Web site for every project your team is working on.

You can contribute to the team Web site using nothing more than a Web browser. However, if you use a SharePoint Team Services-compatible client program, such as Microsoft Office XP, you can work seamlessly with the team Web site, saving documents to the site, editing team Web site documents in the client program, and moving information between client programs and your team Web site.

You can add information to the team Web site, such as events, names and phone numbers of people your team communicates with, and to-do items. New items are marked  to make them readily noticeable. By default, this marker disappears after one day.

You can also:

• Post documents to share with other team members.
• Hold newsgroup-style discussions.
• Take a poll of the team to make a decision.

As team members add or delete documents, lists, discussions, and surveys, SharePoint Team Services automatically updates links to the content so that it's always easy to find. You can also subscribe to be notified of changes to your team Web site, so you're always up to date.

Pages in the team Web site display lists of information, enabling team members to organize the information any way they want, such as by subject, due date, or author. For example, you can:

• Restrict the display to see only the set of information that applies to you.
• Hide information you're not interested in.
• Change the order in which the information is listed.
• Set up customized views to make it easy for your team members to focus quickly on pertinent information.