Uses of Sharepoint....

• A public Internet site

• An intranet portal for the organization and each department

• An extranet portal for your customers and partners

• A team site for your sales department

• A project site for the development team

• A document management system that is compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

• A personal site for each user where they can store personal data and create links to their team sites

• A digital dashboard for storing business intelligence data such as key performance indicators

• A place to search and locate any type of information, regardless of where it is stored

• A record management system for storing legal information in a secure way
  
  

Outgoin Email Settings

1. open sharepoint central admin site
2. go to operation tab
3. lick "outgoing e-mail settings" link under topology and services topic.
4. fill text box for smtp server.
5. fill from address it will appear in task notification emails.