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February 2006 M i c r o s o f t O f f i c e S h a r e P o i n t S e r v e r 2 0 0 7 E v a l u a t i o n G u i d e[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver i Abstract This evalu ation guide i s designed to give you a solid und erstanding of the desi gn goals and feature set for Microsoft ® Offi ce SharePoin t ® Server 2007 an d a famili arity with the product impl ementati on. It provides an ove rview of the solut ions and benefi ts provi[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver ii Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................... ......... 1 Resources Avai lable for Evalu ating Office Shar ePoint Server 200 7 ........... ........... . 2 How to Use Thi s Guide ................................[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 1 Introduction Welcome to th e evaluation guide for Mi crosoft Office SharePoi nt Server 2007. The goal of thi s guide is to hel p you gain suffi cient knowl edge and und erstanding of Offi ce SharePoin t Server 2007 to eval uate this product f rom Microsoft. Office SharePoi nt Server 20[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 2 Resources Avai lable for Evalu ating O ffice Shar ePoint Server 2007 Many resource s are avail able to help you eval uate Office SharePoi nt Server 2007, i nclu ding the followi ng: • Documentati on will help you install Offi ce SharePoint S erver 2007. • The SharePoi nt Products a[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 3 Installing Yo ur Evaluation S erver Provides step–b y-step in structions for in stalling Office ShareP oint Server 2007 i n a singl e- server environm ent so th at you can evalu ate product features. Mo re informati on will be availabl e in a future release of this document. Product [...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 4 Product Overview Office SharePoi nt Server 2007 i s an int egrated suite of server app lications that i mproves organizati onal effectiveness by providi ng comprehensive contr ol over el ectronic content; accelerati ng shared busin ess processes; and facilitating b etter-informed decis[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 5 Accelerate Inte rnal and Extern al Shared Business Process es Make busi ness process initi ation, particip ation, tracking, and r eporting easy and flexibl e by providi ng a simple, consi stent user experienc e through fami liar clien t applications. Opti mize the way peopl e, content,[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 6 Quickly connect people an d informatio n SharePoin t Enterprise Search incorporat es business data and i nformation ab out people wi th documents and Web pages t o provide more comprehensive resu lts. Tools for que ry hit highlig hting, duplicate coll apsing, “di d you mean” spelli[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 7 Enhance cust omer and partn er relationsh ips With smart, stan dards-based, el ectronic forms– driven soluti ons, you can coll ect business informati on from customers, pa rtners, and sup pliers through a Web browser. Li ghtweigh t Directory Acc ess Protocol (LDAP) integrati on and s[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 8 Top 10 Benefits Office SharePoi nt Server 2007 p rovides an i ntegrated suit e of easy-to-use se rver appli cations that boost orga nizati onal effectiveness and opti mize th e way that people, cont ent, proces ses, and busi ness applications i nteract. Here are th e top 10 ways Office[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 9 document reposi tories hel p organizati ons store and organize busi ness documents in one central locati on. 6. Connect p eople with info rmation and ex pertise. SharePoin t Enterprise Search incorporat es business data wi th information ab out people, documents, and W eb pages to p ro[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 10 Features at a Glance Features at a Gl ance provi des information t hat will help you un derstand, desc ribe, and evaluate the ne w and en hanced features of Office SharePoin t Server 2007. Thi s section will be of interest to anyone wh o plans, buil ds, deploys, or manages business so[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 11 Feature Area Features Social Networking New Office SharePoint Server 2007 has additional funct ionality that makes it easier to discover social network ing connections between employees. Public My Site pages can include So cial Networking Web Parts that use information about your o rg[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 12 Feature Area Features Real-Time Presence and Communication Enhanced The Real-Time Presence Smart T ag icon, displayed virtually everywhere a person’s name ap pears in Office SharePoint Server 2007, tells you in real time w hether a person is online and available for a telephone or a[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 13 Feature Area Features Profile Store Enhanced The Profile Store is enha nced with: • Multi-valued properties bound to a taxonomy or a list of values from Office SharePoint S erver 2007. • Property-level security con trols by person or group. • Open and closed vocabularies. • Pe[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 14 Document Management With th e new document m anagement comp onents of Office Shar ePoint Server 2007, SharePoin t Products and Techn ologies no long er simply provi de a platform for d ocument collab oration. Office SharePoi nt Server 2007 b ecomes a ful l-featured sol ution for manag[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 15 Feature Area Features workflow processes with the document management f eatures of Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help translators m anage multiple translations of a document. 2007 Microsoft Office system Client Application Integration Enhanced Office SharePoint Server 2007 has sign[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 16 Feature Area Features Policy and Auditing New The Policy and Auditing features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 include: • Content-type and policy-based documen t retention and expiration schedules. • Auditing and reporting of policy-based actions. • Support for labeling and bar[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 17 Feature Area Features E-mail Content as Records New Office SharePoint Server 2007 records management features include the ability for providing c onsistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail content across Microsoft Office O utlook ® 2007, Microsoft Exchange Serv er 2007, an[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 18 Web Content Management A key goal for Office SharePoi nt Server 2007 i s the complete i ntegration of Micr osoft Content Management S erver 2002 fun ctionality, an d further signi ficant enhancement of th e Web content manag ement functi onality, wi th the collaboration, portal , sear[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 19 Feature Area Features Corporate Internet Presence Site Templat e New Having a high-quality cor porate presence Web site has become a business imperative. I t provides a means of com municating important company information to customers, partners, investors, and potential e mployees. S[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 20 Feature Area Features Authoring and Approv al Enhanced Web content management includes tools, workflows, and services for the end-to-e nd content management of content authoring and approval p rocesses. These include: • Check-in/checkout • Content moderation • Content routing, r[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 21 Search The search comp onent of Offi ce SharePoin t Server 2007 has been si gnifi cantly enhanced by this release of Sha rePoint Product s and Technol ogies. The new featu res provi de a consistent and famili ar search experienc e, increased rel evance of search r esults, n ew functio[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 22 Feature Area Features Uniform, Scalable User Experience Enhanced Microsoft Search provide s a significantly enhanced user experien ce including the following: • Improved rendering of search resu lts • Hit highlighting • Duplicate and near-duplic ate collapsing • Improved Best [...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 23 Feature Area Features People and Expertise Searching Enhanced Support for searching for people and what they know has been significantly enhanced. These feature s include: • Support for indexing and search ing any LDAP directory. • Dedicated Search Center tab for searching for peo[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 24 Feature Area Features Indexing Management Enhanced Imp ro v ed Ind exi ng Mana ge men t c ont rol s pro vi de b ett e r c ont rol o ve r what is to be in dex ed , ho w it is to b e in de xe d, and wh en . Th es e feat ur es i ncl ud e: • Improved crawl rules and crawl log. • One i[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 25 Business Proce sses Microsoft Offi ce Forms Server 2007 helps organi zations streaml ine forms-dri ven business processes wi th easy-to-u se, intelligent , XML-based electroni c forms that i ntegrate smoothl y with exi sting systems. Thi s security-enhan ced, cli ent/server platform p[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 26 Feature Area Feature Description Integrated Deployment Model for “No-code” Forms New The Publish Wizard in Office I nfoPath 2007 makes i t easy to publish forms that do not have any managed code components to a Windows SharePoint Ser vices library, while making the form available [...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 27 Business Int elligence Office SharePoi nt Server 2007 hel ps organi zations provide busi ness intelli gence (BI) capabili ties to every empl oyee, so they can sh are, control, and reus e busin ess information i n order to make b etter busi ness decision s. The BI features i n Office S[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 28 Business Data Catalog New The Business Data Catalog makes it possible to include data from back-end systems in Sha rePoint lists, Web Parts, pages, and search results. The Business Data Catalog deep ly integrates external data into the Office SharePoint Ser ver 2007 user experience , [...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 29 Report Center Web Sit es New Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes out-of-the-box Web sites optimized for report acce ss and management. These sites, hoste d by the new Report Cente r, provide consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, an d data connections. Excel Services Manag[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 30 Architectural Overview This section des cribes the key comp onents of O ffice SharePoin t Server 2007, how th ey relate to each other an d to the platform, and col laborati on services provided by Wi ndows ShareP oint Services (ve rsion3). The high -level architecture is i llustrated [...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 31 Operating Syst em and Data base Services Office SharePoint Server 2007 i s built on th e technologies and se rvices provided by Mi crosoft Windows Server™ 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) a nd SQL Server 2005 (as well as SQL S erver 2000). The core and dev elopment -platform operati ng sys[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 32 In additi on, Windows ShareP oint Services, a feature of Win dows Server 2003, i mplements the collab oration features of th e 2007 release of Office SharePoin t Products and Technologies: • Document coll aboration • Wikis and Bl ogs • Really Si mple Syndication (R SS) support ?[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 33 Shared Services Conceptuall y simila r to Shared Services in Sh arePoint Portal Server 2003 , the Shared Services comp onent has been completel y restructured and rede signed in th e Office SharePoin t Server 2007 u sing a new servi ces provi der model. Shared Servi ces inclu de virtu[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 34 Installing Your Evaluation Server Consult th e readme file i ncluded with Offi ce SharePoint Serve r 2007 for i nformation about installing your evaluation se rver. More informati on will be available i n a future release of thi s document.[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 35 Product Tour More informati on will be available i n a future release of thi s document.[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 36 An Administrator’s Perspective More informati on will be available i n a future release of thi s document.[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 37 A Developer’s Perspective Consult th e Software Devel oper Kit (SDK) included with Office SharePoi nt Server 2007 for informati on about developi ng solutions wi th Office SharePoi nt Server 2007 . More informati on will be available i n a future release of thi s document.[...]

www.microsoft.c om/office/p review/serv ers/sharepo intserver 38 For More Information Visit th e Microsoft Office 200 7 Preview Cente r at http:// www.microsoft.com/offi ce/preview/defa ult.mspx . This W eb site features the latest news and in formation about the 2007 Micros oft Office system, i nclu ding product informati on, case studies, w hite [...]