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What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related toMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for informationsharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services -- a key piece of theinformation worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 -- providesadditional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and itserves as a platform for application development.Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provideadditional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management,business process and forms, and business intelligence.
What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge acrossbusiness processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems intoone secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. Itprovides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaborationthrough data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also enablesusers to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portalcontent and layout as well as through audience targeting.
What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services providesadditional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well asserving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. Theenvironment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.
What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server andWindows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexibledeployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for teamcollaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and businessprocesses—facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational andmanagement tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entireorganization.
Who is Office SharePoint Server 2007 designed for?
Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators, andapplication developers. is designed
What are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet,and Internet applications across the enterprise.Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar,everyday applications.Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners acrossorganizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services–driven solutions.Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the facilitatedinformation-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, access to back-enddata is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can be personalized.Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, andsystem administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks.
 
Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office BusinessApplications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease of deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box applicationservices, developers can build richer applications with less code.
What is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 have identical feature functionality. While the feature functionality is similar, the usage rightsare different.If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that you useMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require the purchaseclient access licenses. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition can only be used for Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-employees. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition cannot be accessed by employeescreating, sharing, or collaborating on content which is solely for internal use only, such as anIntranet Portal scenario. See the previous section on licensing for more information on the usagescenarios.
What suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with OfficeSharePoint Server 2007?
Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint documentlibraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks.Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, will enablebidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries.Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will only beenabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007.Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 file format(XLSX).
How do I invite users to join a Windows SharePoint Services Site? Isthe site secure?
SharePoint-based Web sites can be password-protected to restrict access to registered users,who are invited to join via e-mail. In addition, the site administrator can restrict certain members'roles by assigning different permission levels to view post and edit.
Can I post any kind of document?
You can post documents in many formats, including .pdf, .htm and .doc. In addition, if you areusing Microsoft Office XP, you can save documents directly to your Windows SharePoint Servicessite.
Can I download information directly from a SharePoint site to a personal digital assistant (PDA)?
No you cannot. However, you can exchange contact information lists with Microsoft Outlook.
How long does it take to set up the initial team Web site?
It only takes a few minutes to create a complete Web site. Preformatted forms let you and your team members contribute to the site by filling out lists. Standard forms include announcements,events, contacts, tasks, surveys, discussions and links.
Can I create custom templates?
Yes you can. You can have templates for business plans, doctor's office, lawyer's office etc.
How can I make my site public? By default, all sites are created private.
If you want your site to be a public Web site, enable anonymous access for the entire site. Thenyou can give out your URL to anybody in your business card, e-mail or any other marketingmaterial. The URL for your Web site will be: http:// yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com
 
Hence, please take special care to name your site. These Web sites are ideal for information andknowledge intensive sites and/or sites where you need to have shared Web workspace.Remember: Under each parent Web site, you can create up to 10 sub-sites each with uniquepermissions, settings and security rights.
How do the sub sites work?
You can create a sub site for various categories. For example:Departments - finance, marketing, ITProducts - electrical, mechanical, hydraulicsProjects - Trey Research, Department of Transportation, FDATeam - Retention team, BPR teamClients - new clients, old clientsSuppliers - Supplier 1, Supplier 2, Supplier 3Customers - Customer A, Customer B, Customer CReal estate - property A, property BThe URLs for each will be, for example:http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/finance http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/marketing You can keep track of permissions for each team separately so that access is restricted whilemaintaining global access to the parent site.
How do I make my site non-restricted?
If you want your site to have anonymous access enabled (i.e., you want to treat it like any site onthe Internet that does not ask you to provide a user name and password to see the content of thesite), follow these simple steps:Login as an administrator Click on site settingsClick on Go to Site AdministrationClick on Manage anonymous accessChoose one of the three conditions on what Anonymous users can access:Entire Web siteLists and librariesNothingDefault condition is nothing; your site has restricted access. The default conditions allow you tocreate a secure site for your Web site.
Can I get domain name for my Web site?
Unfortunately, no. At this point, we don't offer domain names for SharePoint sites. But very soonwe will be making this available for all our SharePoint site customers. Please keep checking thispage for further update on this. Meanwhile, we suggest you go ahead and set up your site andcreate content for it.
What are picture libraries?
Picture libraries allow you to access a photo album and view it as a slide show or thumbnails or afilm strip. You can have separate folder for each event, category, etc
What are the advantages of a hosted SharePoint vs. one that is on an in-house server?
No hardware investment, i.e. lower costsNo software to download - ready to start from the word goNo IT resources - Anyone who has used a Web program like Hotmail can use itFaster deployment
Can I ask users outside of my organization to participate in myWindows SharePoint Services site?
Yes. You can manage this process using the Administration Site Settings. Simply add users viatheir e-mail alias and assign permissions such as Reader or Contributor.
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