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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 tools they need for server administration and application extensibility and interoperability. Office SharePoint Server

2007 helps you to:

•Get more out of your information.

•Streamline your business processes.

•Simplify the way people work together.

•Ease server administration, extensibility, and interoperability.

These benefits are further described in the Product Overview section of this guide. The Top 10 Benefits section highlights the most important ways Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization make better use of its business information and processes.

Features at a Glance details the new and enhanced features for this release of Office SharePoint Server including:

•Portal

•Search

•Content Management, including Document, Records, and Web Content

•Business Processes

•Business Intelligence

With this knowledge, you will be able to properly evaluate these new features and readily describe their capabilities to your colleagues, clients, and business partners.

An evaluation guide is also available for Microsoft Windows® SharePoint Services (version 3). However, solution developers, IT professionals, technical business decision makers, journalists, and analysts can read the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation Guide without referring to the Windows SharePoint Services Evaluation Guide.

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Contents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Evaluation Guide Abstract Table of Contents Introduction Resources Available for Evaluating Office SharePoint Server How to Use This GuideOverview of This Guide Page Product Overview Effectively Manage and Repurpose Your Information AssetsAccelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes Page Page Top 10 Benefits Page Features at a Glance PortalIt 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 Architectural Overview Office SharePoint Server 2007 ArchitectureOperating System and Database Services Windows SharePoint ServicesOffice SharePoint Server 2007 Applications and Services Server ApplicationsShared Services Installing Your Evaluation Server Product Tour An Administrator’s Perspective Developer’s Perspective For More Information Hardware and Software Requirements For complete system requirements, visit
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