What is Document and Meeting workspaces?

[jriker1]

I noticed in 3.4a/b that there is an option in the pulldown on a user's mysites dashboard to filter the sites list and it lists Document Workspaces and Meeting Workspaces.  Are these new or am I missing something?  I have alrways created a new "Site" as a collaboration site, no other default choices, but never saw these "Workspaces" within Share.

Thanks.

JR

[stevegreenbaum]

The meeting spaces are created from within Outlook's calendaring function when the SharePoint protocol is in use.  I believe this capability was added with v3.3.

[jriker1]

Thanks for the info.  So if we are not using Outlook, this functionality is not usable?  Curious also if there is any documentation on meeting spaces.  I know about creating Sites for people to collaborate in, however meeting spaces sounds different almost like a temporary workplace during a live meeting or something. 

Thanks.

JR

[stevegreenbaum]

I am only aware of Outlook implementing the SharePoint protocol, but I don't know for sure if any other client software has that capability.  I haven't looked for documentation on this, I kind of stumble upon it while testing Outlook integration one day.  There was a button on the meeting calendar screen that said something like "create site".