Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes.
You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business data.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capabilities

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

• Collaboration
  Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
• Portals
  Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user's profile.
• Enterprise Content Management
  Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
• Business Process and Forms
  Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
• Business Intelligence
  Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.

Integration with 2007 Microsoft Office System

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is designed to work effectively with other programs, servers, and technologies in the 2007 Office release. For example, with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you can create a slide library on an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site that allows other users to pick specific slides for their own presentation and receive notifications and updated versions when the slides have been modified.

 

How are Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services related?

If you have heard about Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, you may wonder how it relates to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Windows SharePoint Services is an enabling technology that is included in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. It helps teams stay connected and productive b y providing easy access to the people, documents, and information that they need to make well-informed decisions and get work done. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 relies on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology to provide a consistent, familiar framework for lists and libraries, site administration, and site customization. Any features that are available in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are also available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

However, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers enhanced and additional features that are unavailable on a Windows SharePoint Services site. For example, both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services include site templates for collaborating with colleagues and setting up meetings. However, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes a number of additional site templates related to enterprise and publishing scenarios.

While Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services provide the technology and platform, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the tools to tailor SharePoint sites to meet specific business needs. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, organizations can deliver compelling SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools without having to write or deploy code on the server.