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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 Content Management

Business Document Workflow Support

Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications.

* Approval

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* Collect Feedback

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* Collect Signatures

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* Disposition Approval

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Document Management Site Templates

*  The Managed Document Library site template defines large-scale document management sites.

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*  The Divisional Library site template includes managed document libraries, dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other reporting tools.

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* The Translation Library site template helps organizations manage multiple translations of a document.

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Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM)

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Helps ensure that access rights applied to Microsoft Office documents in a central library travel with the documents, even when they are downloaded from the library.

Document Information Panel

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Makes editing document properties an integral part of the Microsoft Office system document-authoring experience.

Document Action Bar

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Describes to users what business policy or workflow governs the current document and what action they are expected to take.

Retention and Auditing Policies

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Define customized information management policies to control retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings.

Records Repository

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Helps ensure the integrity of the files stored in the repository, and supports information management policies that consistently and uniformly enforce auditing, and expiration of records.

E-Mail Content as Records

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Provides consistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail content across Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Legal Holds

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Makes it possible for records to be searched and placed on hold during litigation discovery to override the retention schedule of the records.

High Fidelity Websites with Consistent Branding

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Provides the concept of Master Pages and Page layouts to enforce the branding and navigation of web sites. CSS supports gives pixel level control on the look and feel of these sites.

Navigation Controls

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Out-of-the box navigation controls that can be easily customized by end users

Content Authoring

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Provides the ability for information workers to create content rich web pages using a web browser.

Content Publishing and Deployment

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Built in approval workflow allows web content to be sent for approval prior to publishing. Content deployment to production sites can be schduled by setting up jobs and a "live" time period for each page can be specified within which that page is viewable.

Site Templates

Includes support for several new enterprise site templates:

*   The Enterprise Portal template provides a means for a business unit to create and share content that is relevant to the ongoing operation of an enterprise, division, or business unit.

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*   The Corporate Internet Presence Site template includes tools and workflows to create and manage Web content for products and service descriptions, company news, and public filings, among other things.

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*  The Application Portal template brings together all of the tools and information related to a particular line-of-business (LOB) application.

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*  The Roll-up Portal template consolidates data and content from several applications or locations and presents it in an integrated format.

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Page Layouts

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Page Layouts simplify content authoring and publishing—site administrators define a structure that guides authors through the publishing process; content contributors focus on doing their jobs rather than on the details of publishing and deployment. Flexible Page Layouts also allow designers to mix and match ASP.NET applications, Web Parts and Authoring Templates in any configuration to create customized sites to meet specific business needs.

Site Variations

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A new feature of Office SharePoint Server, sites can be linked together in a parent-child type of relationship providing a 1-way orchestration framework for web content. This feature allow organizations to deploy multi-lingual publishing sites in a much more structured and manageable environment.

WYSIWYG Web Content Editor

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Extends the SharePoint user interface with additional commands and status indicators for in-context Web page authoring.

Slide Libraries

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The repository features in Windows SharePoint Services V3 provide the platform support for slide libraries, a feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Slide libraries enable the storage of individual slides in a SharePoint site. PowerPoint 2007 slide decks can be automatically created from a selection of slides in a slide library.

Policies, Auditing and Compliance

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Repositories in Windows SharePoint Services V3 support the following policy, auditing, and compliance features. However, the features denoted with an asterisk are activated only upon the installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Document retention and expiration policies*
• Highly customizable policies
• Workflow process to define expiration
• Access control and security
• Information Rights Management policies applied on download to secure the functional access to documents
• Tracking and auditing
• Logging of all actions on sites, content, and workflows
• Official document-of-record repositories*
• Site for storing or archiving enterprise approved content types

Feature Included 

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Improved 2007

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Features/Benefits

Description

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

Business Process Forms

Browser-based Forms

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InfoPath Forms Services available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it possible to design Web-capable forms in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 and distribute them on corporate intranets, extranets, or the Internet. Users can fill out forms in a browser or HTML enabled Mobile device with no download or client components needed.

Centralized Forms Management and Control

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InfoPath Forms Services provide a administrator controled centralized form solution catalog that makes it easy for users to find a form and minimize form solution downtime when upgrades are necessary. It also provides administrators with the tools to manage form solution security and accesibility.

“Design Once” Development Model

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Forms designers can design their forms once and deploy them for use both within the rich Office InfoPath 2007 client program and through a Web browser. Office Forms Server 2007 automatically converts the form into ASP.NET Web forms, with no additional work from the designer.

Form Import Wizard

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The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to convert forms designed in Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form Import Wizard handles the conversion of form fields, repeating tables, rich text boxes, and other elements, dynamically generating the underlying XML structure for the new form.

Integrated Deployment Model for “No-code” Forms

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The Publish Wizard in Office InfoPath 2007 makes it easy to publish forms that do not have any managed code components to a Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form available as a browser-based form at the same time.

Compatibility Checker

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The Compatibility Checker helps forms designers validate those features that need to work across the broadest range of Web browsers.