For those that want to take the collaborative foundation of WSS to the next level, there is MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007). Previously only affordable by larger customers, the additional features help streamline and simplify how people share information with enterprise search, content management, workflows, executive reporting, and business intelligence. If after reviewing the chart below you’re still unsure about its value to your organization, just give us a call and we’ll help you sort it out.
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| My Site The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate information “for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant enhancements include social networking, privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents Aggregation Web Parts, and Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts.
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| SharePoint Designer 2007 Integration Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based in part on Microsoft FrontPage technology, will provide tools for rich customization of sites, and creating reporting tools and application templates, without any coding.
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| Mobile device support All SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages now render mobile devices using a simplified text-only format.
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| Integration with Microsoft Office Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Word 2007 SharePoint easily integrates with smart client tools through a set of Web services and documented application interfaces. Users can readily adopt these new tools because of their similarity to other familiar environments, such as the Microsoft Office system. For example, users of 2007 Microsoft Office system programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath, Project, and OneNote can directly interact with information stored in SharePoint sites without having to manually download the content.
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| Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups.
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| Audience targeting Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences.
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| Site Manager Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.
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| Content syndication Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site.
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| Site Directory The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content.
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| User Profiles and the Profile Store User Profiles store personal information for system users. Improvements include multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy from Office SharePoint Server 2007, property-level security controls by person or group, open and closed vocabularies, and per-site property extensions. Profile synchronization and directory import support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance.
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| Search
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| User interface Simple, clean yet powerful user interface with industry-standard query syntax. Scopes are decoupled from content sources so users can easily broaden or narrow the scope of a content search. Search can be based on arbitrary content properties such as URL, type, and author. Actionable search results can be easily filtered and sorted; used and shared.
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| Search results Search results are rendered more clearly. Results are security trimmed so users only see what they can access. Results include user-friendly features such as hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing, and synonym suggestion. Optional integration with real-time communications tools allow users to easily contact content authors and experts.
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| Enterprise content sources Searches over 200 file types in many enterprise content sources, including files shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out-of –the-box with the ability to extend to additional third party repositories and file types through the use of Protocol Handlers and iFilters.
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| Relevance New and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content along with the use of relevance and ranking factors such as click distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction yield the best results for enterprise content.
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| Administration and management Improved administration user interfaces and admin application programming interface (API) provides broad support for various search and indexing scenarios, central controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for management and reporting.
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| Indexing controls Granular indexing controls for easy inclusion and exclusion of searched content as well as immediate result removal of any site or item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh. Improved crawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per content source; and a new browse able, filterable index log provide necessary information to optimize search.
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| Security Administrator permissions no longer required by crawler. Access control list (ACL) and ACL-only crawls index content permissions for compliance, privacy, and protection of intellectual property (IP). Security-trimmed search results only allow users to see content they are allowed to access.
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| People search People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.
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| Business data search Search data residing in your line-of-business applications using the Business Data Catalog. Structured content sources and line-of-business application data and reports accessible through Web services or ADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data Catalog as search results or into a SharePoint list.
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| Content Management
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| Business document workflow Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications.
- Approval
- Collect Feedback
- Collect Signatures
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| Document management site templates
- The Managed Document Library site template defines large-scale document management sites.
- The Divisional Library site template includes managed document libraries, dashboards, KPIs, and other reporting tools.
- The Translation Library site template helps organizations manage multiple translations of a document.
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| Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management Helps ensure that access rights applied to Microsoft Office documents in a central library travel with the documents, even when they are downloaded from the library.
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| Document Information Panel Makes editing document properties an integral part of the Microsoft Office system document-authoring experience.
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| Retention and auditing policies Define customized information management policies to control retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings.
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| Records repository Helps ensure the integrity of the files stored in the repository, and supports information management policies that consistently and uniformly enforce auditing, and expiration of records.
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| E-mail content as records Provides consistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail content across Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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| Legal holds Makes it possible for records to be searched and placed on hold during litigation discovery to override the retention schedule of the records.
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| High Quality Web sites with consistent branding Provides the concept of Master Pages and Page layouts to enforce the branding and navigation of Web sites. CSS supports gives pixel level control on the look and feel of these sites.
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| Content authoring Provides the ability for information workers to create content rich Web pages using a Web browser.
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| WYSIWYG Web content editor Extends the SharePoint user interface with additional commands and status indicators for in-context Web page authoring.
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| Page Layouts Page Layouts simplify content authoring and publishing — site administrators define a structure that guides authors through the publishing process; content contributors focus on doing their jobs rather than on the details of publishing and deployment. Flexible Page Layouts also allow designers to mix and match ASP.NET applications, Web Parts, and Authoring Templates in any configuration to create customized sites to meet specific business needs.
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| Forms-driven business processes
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| Compatibility Checker The Compatibility Checker helps forms designers validate those features that need to work across the broadest range of Web browsers.
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| Browser-based forms Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services available in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it possible to design Web-capable forms in Office InfoPath 2007 and distribute them on corporate intranets, extranets, or the Internet. Users can fill out forms in a browser or HTML-enabled mobile device with no download or client components needed.
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| Centralized forms management and control Office InfoPath Forms Services provide a administrator controlled centralized form solution catalog that makes it easy for users to find a form and minimize form solution downtime when upgrades are necessary. It also provides administrators with the tools to manage form solution security and accessibility.
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| Form Import Wizard The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to convert forms designed in Office Excel and Office Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form Import Wizard handles the conversion of form fields, repeating tables, rich text boxes, and other elements, dynamically generating the underlying XML structure for the new form.
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| Business intelligence
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| Report Center An out-of-the-box site optimized for report access and management, including a report library, data connection library, and a dashboard template. These sites, hosted by the new Report Center, provide consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connections.
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| Key performance indicators KPIs communicate goals and status to drive results. Using the KPI Web Part, a user can create a KPI list within a Web Part page, without writing code. The KPI Web Part can display KPIs from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, or manually entered data.
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| Integrated spreadsheet publishing Office Excel 2007 provides an integrated publishing experience that lets information workers easily choose what they want to share with others and determine how others can interact with published spreadsheets.
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| Share, manage, and control spreadsheets Share business data broadly while maintaining control and helping to protect sensitive information. Provides access to spreadsheet data and analysis through server-calculated, interactive Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one centralized version of the truth while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents, such as financial models, by limiting access to portions of the spreadsheet and auditing their usage.
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| Web-based business intelligence using Excel Services Excel Services empowers spreadsheet authors to easily and broadly share spreadsheets that use the new business intelligence (BI) functionality through the browser. Fully interactive, data-bound spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views can be created as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard, without requiring any development.
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| Business Data Catalog The Business Data Catalog (BDC) tightly integrates external data into the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user experience, providing access to external data residing within backed line-of-business applications, and enabling the display of and interaction with external data through a set of Business Data Web Parts.
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| Business Data Web Parts Use SharePoint Business Data Web Parts for viewing lists, entities, and related information retrieved through the Business Data Catalog.
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| Integrated business intelligence dashboards Create rich, interactive BI dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built-in Web parts such as dynamic KPIs, Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports, or a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts that can visualize information residing in back end line-of-business applications.
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| The Platform
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| Support for ASP.NET 2.0
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 leverages the reliability, scalability, and functionality of ASP.NET version 2.0. This includes support for the ASP.NET version 2.0 Web Part Model (with added backward compatibility support for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 SP2 Web Parts). Building on ASP.NET not only provides a deep technical foundation for Windows SharePoint Services, but also allows Windows SharePoint Services to leverage the Visual Studio development environment for application development.
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| Task notifications Task notifications are now sent automatically when a user is assigned a task. There is no need for the user to subscribe to the notification in advance.
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| RSS feeds
By integrating RSS feeds for each SharePoint list, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides an efficient mechanism for end users to retrieve the information using RSS-enabled programs such as Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Office Outlook 2007.
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| Rights trimmed user interface
Users are only allowed to see the features that they have the rights to use. Previously, Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Service Pack 2 did not inform a user they were not allowed to perform a function until they clicked its link.
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| Simple Web Part user interface Their is a user interface for browsing, selecting, and adding Web Parts to a Web Part page. The Web Part catalog is presented as a scrollable list; no more paging forward and backward through the Web Part catalog.
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| Accessibility Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is Section 508 and W3C compliant.
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| Document libraries
Improvement to SharePoint document libraries include:
- Checking out documents locally
- Offline document library support in Office Outlook 2007
- Major and minor version numbering and tracking
- Support for multiple content type
- Policy, auditing, and workflow
- Tree view support
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| Metadata Users can extend document libraries and lists with custom column properties.
The practical number of column properties that a list or document library may have has been significantly increased due to performance and scalability improvements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Lists.
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| Application templates
While standard workspaces in Windows SharePoint Services are easy to implement, organizations seeking a more customized deployment can get started quickly with application templates for addressing specific business processes or sets of tasks.
A new set of application templates are available for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. They highlight aspects of task coordination and offer some pre-configured workflows. The application templates provide customers with a baseline for deploying Windows SharePoint Services in context of business processes and set of tasks. A rich ecosystem of solution providers use the application templates as the basis for deeper horizontal and vertical solutions.
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| Workflow Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hosts Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to enable customized creation of workflow solutions and use of structured workflows on document library and list items. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 can be used to design and configure custom workflow solutions with the support for WF in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
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| Version history
Changes to the item are shown in the version history. In addition, support is provided for “append-only” comment fields.
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| Inteoperability and integration
- XML
- SOAP
- Web Services
- Open API and Object Model
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