ActivSupport Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 consultants have prepared a quick summary of the new features provided by Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. Building on the success of Sharepoint portal 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 delivers enhanced functionalities for all areas of the Sharepoint solution, including new collaborative, portal, search, and content management features.
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Email Integration
Document libraries, discussion boards, calendars, and announcements can be enabled to receive new postings via e-mail. In addition, extensible support is provided for custom e-mail handlers in Windows SharePoint Services V3. Similar to the functionality provided by public folders in Microsoft Exchange Server, e-mail enabled discussion boards support:
A highly scalable, topic-based architecture
New super rich-text field type
Unified experience for both e-mail and Web-based discussions
One-step creation of Active Directory distribution lists as part of the site creation process
Unified SharePoint group and Active Directory management functions
Web 2.0 features
Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your organization, communities, and electronic communications in Public My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests.
Blogs
Blogs provide a publishing-oriented experience for a single user or a team. Windows SharePoint Services V3 includes a site template that supports:
Article posting
Reader comments
Archive views
RSS feed generation
Wikis
A wiki is a new site template in Windows SharePoint Services V3 that makes it easy to create, edit, link, and restore an individual Web page. Wikis can be used as creative forums to brainstorm ideas, manage knowledge bases, create designs as well as instruction guides or simply gather information in an easy-to-edit format. Wikis are easy to create, modify, and annotate; in addition to tracking contributions and changes.
Key features include:
Fast and easy page creation
Easy and automatic linking
Version differences
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Web page editing
Wikis leverage existing SharePoint functionality including search, navigation, alerts, and custom fields.
Project Management
The new Project Tasks list template provides lightweight task management functionality including Gantt charts for visualization of task relationships and status.
Mobile Support
All SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages now render on international and North American mobile devices (including Web-enabled mobile phones) using a simplified text-only format.
Office integration
Windows SharePoint Services V3 easily integrates with smart client tools through a set of Web services and documented application interfaces. Users can readily adopt these new tools because of their similarity to other familiar environments, such as the Microsoft Office system.
For example, users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Microsoft Office InfoPath, Microsoft Office Project, and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 can directly interact with information stored in SharePoint sites without having to manually download the content.
Users can create workspaces, post and edit documents, and assign tasks, all while working on documents stored in SharePoint sites.
Outlook Integration
With Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, users can view calendars and contact lists stored on SharePoint sites, and create and manage sites for editing documents and organizing meetings.
Outlook 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services V3 support a new set of significantly enhanced functionality including: Read/write access to SharePoint items: calendars, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents
Synchronization of offline support of document library and lists
Ability to check out and edit documents when offline
Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites
Unified view of personal and SharePoint tasks in Outlook 2007
Better Search
People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.
Workflow
Business Document Workflow Support
Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications.
* Approval
* Collect Feedback
* Collect Signatures
* Disposition Approval
Business Cockpits
Integrated Business Intelligence Dashboards
Create rich, interactive business intelligence dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built-in Web parts such as dynamic KPIs, Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports, or a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts that can visualize information residing in backed LOB applications.
ActivSupport SharePoint Portal Server Experts can intervene at any stage of your SharePoint project; from evaluation, through planning, customization, integration, installation, training to ongoing support.
ActivSupport delivers consulting and outsourcing services across Microsoft, Linux, and Macintosh networks to small businesses and enterprises alike all over the U.S. For a free consultation about your project, call ActivSupport at 1-877-ACTIVNET (1-877-228-4863) or use our online contact form.
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