Table of Contents

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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