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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Evaluation Guide
February 2006
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Abstract This evaluation guide is designed to give you a solid understanding of the design goals and feature set for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and a familiarity with the product implementation. It provides an overview of the solutions and benefits provided by Office SharePoint Server 2007 as well as descriptions of new and improved features in the areas of portal, search, content management, business processes, and business intelligence. It also provides a hands-on tour o
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Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................. 1 Resources Available for Evaluating Office SharePoint Server 2007 ....................... 2 How to Use This Guide .................................................................................. 2 Overview of This Guide .................................................................................. 2 Product Overview ......................................
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Introduction Welcome to the evaluation guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The goal of this guide is to help you gain sufficient knowledge and understanding of Office SharePoint Server 2007 to evaluate this product from Microsoft. Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organizations gain better control and insight over their content, streamline their business processes, and access and share information. In addition, Office SharePoint Server 2007 gives IT professionals the too
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Resources Available for Evaluating Office SharePoint Server 2007 Many resources are available to help you evaluate Office SharePoint Server 2007, including the following: • Documentation will help you install Office SharePoint Server 2007. • The SharePoint Products and Technologies Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint offers a variety of white papers and other resources. • The Microsoft MSDN® Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ offers numerous technical resou
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Installing Your Evaluation Server Provides step–by-step instructions for installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a single- server environment so that you can evaluate product features. More information will be available in a future release of this document. Product Tour Provides step-by-step instructions for configuring and demonstrating each new feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007. More information will be available in a future release of this document. An Administrator’s Pers
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Product Overview Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server applications that improves organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive control over electronic content; accelerating shared business processes; and facilitating better-informed decisions and information-sharing across boundaries. Effectively Manage and Repurpose Your Information Assets Get more value from your content by providing comprehensive control over the storage, security, distribution, r
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Accelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes Make business process initiation, participation, tracking, and reporting easy and flexible by providing a simple, consistent user experience through familiar client applications. Optimize the way people, content, and processes interact within and across organizations. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities Take advantage of workflows to automate and gain more visibility into common business activ
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Quickly connect people and information SharePoint Enterprise Search incorporates business data and information about people with documents and Web pages to provide more comprehensive results. Tools for query hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing, “did you mean” spelling correction, and alerts help users locate what they want within search results. Unlock business data Out-of-the-box (OOB) connectors provide accessibility to data in SAP and Siebel systems. With the Business Data Catalog
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Enhance customer and partner relationships With smart, standards-based, electronic forms–driven solutions, you can collect business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration and support for other pluggable authentication providers makes it easier to implement extranet SharePoint environments, improving connectivity outside your organization. Effectively manage and share business insight Report Cent
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Top 10 Benefits Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides an integrated suite of easy-to-use server applications that boost organizational effectiveness and optimize the way that people, content, processes, and business applications interact. Here are the top 10 ways Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization: 1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web br
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document repositories help organizations store and organize business documents in one central location. 6. Connect people with information and expertise. SharePoint Enterprise Search incorporates business data with information about people, documents, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Rich search functionality like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improves the relevance of the results and helps users easily find what they need within the searc
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Features at a Glance Features at a Glance provides information that will help you understand, describe, and evaluate the new and enhanced features of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This section will be of interest to anyone who plans, builds, deploys, or manages business solutions using Office SharePoint Server 2007. Portal The portal components of Office SharePoint Server 2007 include features that are especially useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals
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Feature Area Features Social Networking Office SharePoint Server 2007 has additional functionality that makes New it easier to discover social networking connections between employees. Public My Site pages can include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your organization, communities, and electronic communications. This can help you identify colleagues with common interests and produce better, more relevant search results. In addition, Social Networking helps establ
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Feature Area Features Real-Time Presence The Real-Time Presence Smart Tag icon, displayed virtually and Communication everywhere a person’s name appears in Office SharePoint Server Enhanced 2007, tells you in real time whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audio conference call, instant messaging, or two- way video conversation. Notification Service Office SharePoint Server 2007 enhances several Notification Service Enhanced features: • Filtering conditions can
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Feature Area Features Profile Store The Profile Store is enhanced with: Enhanced • Multi-valued properties bound to a taxonomy or a list of values from Office SharePoint Server 2007. • Property-level security controls by person or group. • Open and closed vocabularies. • Per-site property extensions (federated property store). Profile Profile Synchronization supports the extended capabilities of the Synchronization Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance. Enhanced P
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Document Management With the new document management components of Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Products and Technologies no longer simply provide a platform for document collaboration. Office SharePoint Server 2007 becomes a full-featured solution for managing business documents. Enhanced document libraries in Windows SharePoint Services provide the foundation for the new document management features described below. Feature Area Features Business Document Business docume
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Feature Area Features workflow processes with the document management features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help translators manage multiple translations of a document. 2007 Microsoft Office Office SharePoint Server 2007 has significantly enhanced document system Client management and related workflow features, including: Application Integration • Document Information Panel Enhanced • Document Action Bar Document The Document Information Panel makes editing document proper
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Feature Area Features Policy and Auditing The Policy and Auditing features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 New include: • Content-type and policy-based document retention and expiration schedules. • Auditing and reporting of policy-based actions. • Support for labeling and barcoding without physically modifying a document. • Integrated Windows Rights Management Services (RMS). Records Repository The core of the records management implementation in Office New SharePoint Server 20
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Feature Area Features E-mail Content as Office SharePoint Server 2007 records management features include Records the ability for providing consistent, policy-based solutions for New managing e-mail content across Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007. This is accomplished through two new features: • Managed mail folders • Mail management policies Managed Mail Folders Working in conjunction with Exchange Server 2007, managed
