Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business insight.Office SharePoint Server2007 supports all intranet,extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, andinteroperability.Managed enterprisecontent in a Web-based user interface.www.microsoft.com/office/sharepointserver | | Manage Content and ProcessDerive more value from information assets and simplifycompliance by providing comprehensive control over the entire life cycle of electronic content, including documents, Web pages, PDF files, and e-mail messages. Streamline shared business processes through out-of-the-box workflows,easy-to-use electronic forms, and a simple, consistent user experience through familiar client applications.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 addworkflow, define retention policies, and add new templates and content types.Help keep documents secure through detailed, extensible policy management.Define customized document management policies to control access rights at a per-item level, specify retention period and expiration actions, and track content through document-auditing settings. Policy integration with familiar desktop clientapplications makes compliance transparent and easy for employees. Integration with information rights management enables persistent policies to be automatically embedded within documents, helping to ensure that confidential information is better protected even when the document is not connected to a server.Simplify Web content management.Provide easy-to-use functionality to create, approve, andpublishWeb content. Master pages and page layouts provide reusable templates for a consistent look and feel. New functionality enables enterprises to publish content from one area to another (for example, from a collaborative site to a portal), or cost-effectively manage multilingual delivery of content on multiple intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. |

Extend business processes across theorganization.Forms Services–driven solutions make it possible to accurately collect security-enhanced information inside and outside the organization without coding any custom applications. This information can then be integrated easily into line-of-business systems, stored in document libraries, used to start workflow processes, or submitted to Web services to help avoid duplicate efforts and costlyerrors resulting from manual data entry.Streamline everyday business processes.Out-of-the-box workflows enable initiation, participation,tracking, and reporting for common business activitiessuch as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. Integration with browsers, e-mail, and familiar Microsoft Office system client programs simplifies the user experience. Organizationscan easily define their own collaborative, user-driven business processes by capitalizing on the Windows Workflow Foundation services embedded in the Microsoft Windows® platform and using familiar Microsoft tools such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next generation of the Microsoft Office FrontPage® tool) or the Microsoft Visual Studio® system.Improve Business InsightMake...