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Features/Benefits

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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

Enterprise Portal

My Site Personal Site

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The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate information “for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant enhancements include social networking, privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-Up Web Parts, and Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts.

Content Syndication

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Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site.

Privacy & Security

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Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view.

Site Directory

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The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content.

User Profiles and the Profile Store

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User Profiles store personal information for system users. Improvements include multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy from Office SharePoint Server 2007, property-level security controls by person or group, open and closed vocabularies, and per-site property extensions. Profile synchronization and directory import support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance.

Audience Targeting

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Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences.

Site Manager

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Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.

Mobile Device Support

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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.

Portal Site Templates

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Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Web sites.

SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-up Web Parts

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List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the user has authored. The Documents Roll-up Web Part also supports more general capabilities for querying and filtering the documents stored in a collection of SharePoint sites.

Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts

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List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups.

Integration with for Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Word 2007

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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.

Integration with Outlook 2007

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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

Integration with SharePoint Designer

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Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based in part on Microsoft FrontPage technology, will provide tools for rich customization of sites, and creating reporting tools and application templates, without any coding.

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

Enterprise Search

User Interface

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Simple, clean yet powerful user interface with industry-standard query syntax. Scopes are decoupled from content sources so users can easily broaden or narrow the scope of a content search. Search can be based on arbitrary content properties such as URL, type, and author. Actionable search results can be easily filtered and sorted; used and shared. Alerts and RSS feeds easily provide updated results for common and frequent queries.

Search Results

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Search results are rendered more clearly. Results are security trimmed so users only see what they can access. Results include user-friendly features such as hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing and synonym suggestion. Optional integration with real time communications tools allow users to easily contact content authors and experts.

Enterprise Content Sources

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Searches over 200 file types in many enterprise content sources, including files shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out of the box with the ability to extend to additional 3rd party repostitories and filetypes through the use of Protocol Handlers and iFilters

Relevance

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New and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content along with the use of relevance and ranking factors such as click distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction yeild the best results for enterprise content

Administration and Management

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Improved administration user interfaces and admin API provides broad support for various search and indexing scenarios, central controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for management and reporting

Indexing Controls

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Granualr indexing controls for easy inclusion and exlusion of searched content as well as immediate result removal of any site or item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh. Improved crawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per content source; a new browsable, filterable index log provide necessary information to optimize search

Security

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Administrator permissions no longer required by crawler. ACL and ACL-only crawls index content permissions for compliance, privacy, and protection of IP. Security-trimmed search results only allow users to see content they are allowed to access.

People 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.

Business Data Search

Search data residing in your line of business applications using the Business Data Catalog. Structured content sources as well as LOB application data and reports accessible through web services or ADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data Catalog as search results or into a SharePoint list