Microsoft 2007 manual Product Overview, Effectively Manage and Repurpose Your Information Assets

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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, reuse, and management of documents and other electronic content such as Web pages, PDF files, and e-mail messages.

Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management

Define customized document management policies to control item-level access rights, retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings. Policy integration with familiar client applications makes compliance transparent and easy for employees. Extensible design helps organizations to modify product behavior to suit their unique business needs.

Centrally store, manage, and access documents across the enterprise Organizations can store and organize all business documents and content in one central location, and users have a consistent mechanism to navigate and find relevant information. Default repository settings can be modified to add workflow, define retention policies, and add new templates and content types.

Simplify content reuse and information repurposing

Submit work from collaborative sites to portals using tools that simplify content reuse and publishing. Simplify management of multilingual content through document library templates designed to maintain a relationship between original and translated versions of documents. Use slide libraries as an easy way to share and reuse Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 slides.

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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 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