Sharepoint 2007: Specify Your Colleagues

You might want to specify whom you are working with. This information helps SharePoint track for you what they are doing and helps you share information with them.

To specify your colleagues, click the Colleagues link in the left navigation bar. Selecting this link opens a screen on which you can add, modify, or remove your colleagues, as well as group them for your comfort (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. The My Colleagues page enables you to add, modify, or remove colleagues.

Clicking Add Colleagues may prompt you to allow SharePoint to check Outlook for people who might be your colleagues (see Figure 2).

Figure 2. SharePoint asks whether you want to access your Outlook email list.

This feature can help you quickly add people with whom you are working. Regardless of whether you choose to do so, you can then manually select people from the company address book and mark them as colleagues in the Add Colleagues dialog (see Figure 3).

Figure 3. Add coworkers to your site using the Add Colleagues dialog.