Microsoft 2007 manual Table of Contents

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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	4
Effectively Manage and Repurpose Your Information Assets	4
Accelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes	5
Make Better-Informed Decisions through Centralized Access to Information	5
Share Business Information Within and Outside Your Organization	6
Use a Single, Integrated Platform to Manage Intranet, Extranet, and Internet
Applications	7
Top 10 Benefits	8
Features at a Glance	10
Portal	10
Content Management	13
Document Management	14
Records Management	15
Web Content Management	18
Search	21
Business Processes	25
Business Intelligence	27
Architectural Overview	30
Operating System and Database Services	31
Windows SharePoint Services	31
Office SharePoint Server 2007: Applications and Services	32
Server Applications	32
Shared Services	33
Installing Your Evaluation Server	34
Product Tour	35
An Administrator’s Perspective	36
A Developer’s Perspective	37
For More Information	38
Hardware and Software Requirements	38

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Contents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Evaluation Guide Abstract Table of Contents Introduction How to Use This Guide Resources Available for Evaluating Office SharePoint ServerOverview of This Guide Page Effectively Manage and Repurpose Your Information Assets Product OverviewAccelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes Page Page Top 10 Benefits Page Portal Features at a GlanceIt easier to discover social networking connections between Way video conversation Content Management Document Management Records Management Include Managing e-mail content across Microsoft Office Outlook Web Content Management Important company information to customers, partners Services for the end-to-end content management of content Search Improved rendering of search results Support for indexing and searching any Ldap directory Improved crawl rules and crawl log Business Processes Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form Business Intelligence Back-end systems in SharePoint lists, Web Parts, pages, By the new Report Center, provide consistent management Office SharePoint Server 2007 Architecture Architectural OverviewWindows SharePoint Services Operating System and Database ServicesServer Applications Office SharePoint Server 2007 Applications and ServicesShared Services Installing Your Evaluation Server Product Tour An Administrator’s Perspective Developer’s Perspective For complete system requirements, visit For More Information Hardware and Software Requirements