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Improved 2007

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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search

Office Forms Server 2007

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL or for Internet Site

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Feature Included 

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Improved 2007

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New in 2007

Features/Benefits

Description

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search

Office Forms Server 2007

Management

Configuration Management

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Built on the infrastructure and services provided by ASP.NET version 2.0, Windows SharePoint Services V3 supports a centralized Web configuration management object model.

Administration User Interface

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The administration Web pages have been reorganized and redesigned based on feedback from the many customers who deployed Windows SharePoint Services V2 SP2 in their organizations

Delegation

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In Windows SharePoint Services V3, delegation gives SharePoint site owners a secure, scalable, and centrally managed set of administration rights

Re-Parenting

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Re-parenting is the ability to dynamically re-arrange a hierarchy of SharePoint sites. Previously, in Windows SharePoint Services V2 SP2, a site needed to be backed up and deleted from its current location and then restored under a new parent site in the SharePoint site hierarchy.

Provisioning

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Provisioning is a core component of Windows SharePoint Services V3 that:
• Lets users choose their own template
• Defines a shared Web application
SharePoint sites can be provisioned in two ways:
• Site templates (*.STP files) that are typically user-created
• Site definitions that are developer-created and stored on Web server file system

Usage Analytics

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Monitoring

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Windows SharePoint Services V3 provides a Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) package to support centralized monitoring and management of configurations ranging from single servers and small server farm to very large server farms.