Office 2008 for Mac

Office 2008 Planning

• A user can add a new document that is located on his or her computer to a SharePoint

site or Office Live Workspace by using the Add File feature in Document Connection for

Mac.

Note A user can also drag a file from the computer to the file list in Document

Connection for Mac.

• If a SharePoint site has a template that is associated with it, a user can create a new

document based on the template by using the New File feature in Document

Connection for Mac.

Note Document Connection for Mac can open only a file that has an application

associated with it.

• In Document Connection for Mac, a file cannot be deleted from a SharePoint site or

Office Live Workspace. To delete a file from these locations, use the Web browser.

• If a file remains in the Drafts folder after it is saved to the server, a user cannot edit it,

check it in, or check it out. To remove this file from the Drafts folder, delete the

Document Connection.xml database from /Users/username/Library/Microsoft/Office

2008/Document Connection/. Also, in /Users/username/Library/Microsoft/Office

2008/Document Connection/, delete Document Connection.mdccache. Restart

Document Connection for Mac.

Planning site and content security

You can use basic authentication, Integrated Windows Authentication (NTLMv2), or the Kerberos

protocol as methods of authentication with the SharePoint server. To authenticate users to the

Office Live Workspace, Document Connection for Mac requires Windows Live ID.

As an administrator, you must plan for site security and assign permission levels to the users who

are to access content on SharePoint sites at the SharePoint Portal Server level. In the SharePoint

Portal Server, you can select users who will be authorized to access the content on a site. You can

also select the permission levels for these users to enable them to view, change, or manage a

particular site or documents within the site. The permission level controls all permissions for the

site and for any subsites, lists, document libraries, folders, and items or documents that inherit the

site's permissions. The following table describes the default permissions levels.