If I had to name just one thing that impresses the heck out of me about SharePoint, I'd go with the power that SharePoint grants to the end users who manage sites. Sure, publishing, document versioning, the SharePoint object model and so many other features are pretty cool, but what you can do as a site admin or site collection admin is pretty dang impressive. You have the ability to control just about every aspect of your site, from who uses it to what goes into it. You are able to manage all of it from your web browser without any additional tools. And you don't have to be an experience IT professional to be able to do it. In fact, this is so apparent in the current version of SharePoint that Microsoft changed their security model for sites to fully embrace this approach. In WSS v2 and SPS 2003 if you were a SharePoint Admin (someone who had administrative rights to the servers hosting SharePoint and all its administrative resources, such as User Profiles, Search, etc); you had the keys to the castle. You could access any site and make any changes to it you felt like, and no one could stop you. It was definitely an all or nothing proposition; your SharePoint admins could go to any site (such as an executive-only site) and view its contents. All in all, it was quite exhilarating Now in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007, as Lee Corso likes to say, "Not so fast my friend!" SharePoint administrators no longer have default access to your site. Each site collection can have a...