Hi All,
Not sure if you’ve noticed this or not, but starting with Office 2007, I noticed in my Office Save dialogs an option started to appear called “My SharePoint Sites”:
I’ve mentioned it to a few other people. I find the functionality pretty useful – the scenario I use the most is when I get attachments from folks via email and want to quickly dump the attachment on our SharePoint project portal (a.k.a. the imason client area). Big time saver.
But the part that has remained mysterious to me is how you add sites to the list. I’m trying to track the info down – the first useful hit that I got was this blog post [1] about where “My SharePoint Sites” comes from. Apparently you have to enable your SharePoint “My Site” (which I’ve done) to get things rolling. Then the first time any Office Client App runs each day, it updates the list of Sites automatically… Doesn’t totally answer my question though, b/c I have access to a whole bunch of SharePoint sites that I don’t see in the list so I’m still left wondering why some appear and some done. The post refers to “Member Groups” - I’m curious about what the technical definition of this is – does this mean the sites where I’m a Site Collection Admin? Sites where I have “Full control”?
[1] http://paulliebrand.com/2007/11/29/office-2007-and-my-sharepoint-sites/
I’m going to play around with it some more and try and find the answer – if anyone out there has already figured it out, LMK.
[UPDATE – MAY 2009]
So I think the mystery is resolved – and the answer isn’t what I expected… The list is comprised of any site where there is a security group with the word “Members” in it. So if your site doesn’t have a security group with the word “Members” you won’t see it in the list (for example, we have a lot of sites with the “All People” group). So your site admin needs to create a security group with the word “members” in it and add you to that group - then it will start to show up (see note above – may not appear for 24 hours). Not very intuitive, but works for now. (maybe something they’ll resolve in the next version?)