Improved 2007

New in 2007

Features/BenefitsDescription

C o l l a b o r a t i o n

Real-Time Presence and Communication

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Social Networking Webpart

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Standard Site Templates

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Wikis

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Blogs

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People and Groups Lists

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Calendars

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Email Integration

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Task Coordination

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Surveys

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Document Collaboration

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Issue Tracking

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Feature Included

Windows SharePointServices 3.0SharePoint Portal Server2003Office SharePoint Server2007 for SearchOffice Forms Server2007Office SharePoint Server2007 Standard CALOffice SharePoint Server2007 Enterprise CAL or forInternet Site

The enhanced real-time presence smart tag icon, displayed virtually everywhere a person’s nameappears in the system, tells users whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audioconference call, instant messaging, or two-way video conversation.

Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about yourorganization, communities, and electronic communications in Public My Sitepages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests.Windows SharePoint Services V3 includes the following standard collaborationsite templates• Team site• Document workspace• Blank site• Blog• Wiki• Meeting workspaces (5 workspace types)

A wiki is a new site template in Windows SharePoint Services V3 that makes it easy to create, edit,link, and restore an individual Web page. Wikis can be used as creative forums to brainstorm ideas,manage knowledge bases, create designs as well as instruction guides or simply gather information inan easy-to-edit format. Wikis are easy to create, modify, and annotate; in addition to trackingcontributions and changes.Key features include:• Fast and easy page creation• Easy and automatic linking• Version differences• WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Web page editingWikis leverage existing SharePoint functionality including search, navigation, alerts, and custom fields.

Blogs provide a publishing-oriented experience for a single user or a team.Windows SharePoint Services V3 includes a site template that supports:• Article posting• Reader comments• Archive views• RSS feed generationPeople and Groups offer a unified place to find, communicate with, and managepeople and their permissions, including support for custom fields such asDepartment, “Office #” and Area of Focus; in addition to the new Person fieldtype. The Person field type creates rich displays of lists of people includingsupport for a People Picker for browsing a list of users.Member Group provides:• Re-use of groups across sites• Distribution list for the members of the siteCalendars have been enhanced with richer calendar views, expanded supportfor recurring events, and all-day events.Document libraries, discussion boards, calendars, and announcements can beenabled to receive new postings via e-mail. In addition, extensible support isprovided for custom e-mail handlers in Windows SharePoint Services V3.Similar to the functionality provided by public folders in Microsoft ExchangeServer, e-mail enabled discussion boards support:• A highly scalable, topic-based architecture• New “super rich-text” field type• Unified experience for both e-mail and Web-based discussions• One-step creation of Active Directory distribution lists as part of the sitecreation process• Unified SharePoint group and Active Directory management functions The new Project Tasks list template provides lightweight task managementfunctionality including Gantt charts for visualization of task relationships andstatus.

Surveys now include conditional branching as well as support for inserting page breaks in long surveyssuch as annual employee satisfaction or and customer surveys.Improvements to SharePoint document libraries include:• Checking out documents locally• Offline document library support in Outlook 2007• Major and minor version numbering and tracking• Support for multiple content types• Policy, auditing, and workflow• Tree view support

The Issue Tracking list template has been updated to use the enhancedversioning and version-history storage features of Windows SharePoint ServicesV3.

Improved 2007

New in 2007

Features/BenefitsDescription

E n t e r p r i s e P o r t a l

My Site Personal Site

Content Syndication

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

Site Directory

User Profiles and the Profile Store

Audience Targeting

Site Manager

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Mobile Device Support

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Portal Site Templates

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SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-up Web Parts

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Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts

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

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Integration with Outlook 2007

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Integration with SharePoint Designer

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Feature Included

“for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant enhancements include socialnetworking, privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-Up WebUse authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view.

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 forchanged or deleted links to external content.User Profiles store personal information for system users. Improvementsinclude multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy from Office SharePointServer 2007, property-level security controls by person or group, open andclosed vocabularies, and per-site property extensions. Profile synchronizationand directory import support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Storewith enhanced scalability and performance.Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distributionlists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences.Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look andfeel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site managementtasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings,SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.

All SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages now render on international and North American mobiledevices (including Web-enabled mobile phones) using a simplified text-only format.Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and deployment of divisional portals,organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Web sites.List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the user has authored. TheDocuments Roll-up Web Part also supports more general capabilities for querying and filtering thedocuments stored in a collection of SharePoint sites.List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups.

Windows SharePoint Services V3 easily integrates with smart client tools through a set of Web servicesand documented application interfaces. Users can readily adopt these new tools because of theirsimilarity 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 directlyinteract 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 ondocuments stored in SharePoint sites.With Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, users can view calendars and contact lists stored on SharePointsites, and create and manage sites for editing documents and organizing meetings.Outlook 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services V3 support a new set of significantly enhancedfunctionality 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 2007Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based in part on Microsoft FrontPage technology, will provide toolsfor rich customization of sites, and creating reporting tools and application templates, without anycoding.

Improved 2007

New in 2007

Features/BenefitsDescription

E n t e r p r i s e S e a r c h

User Interface

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Search Results

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Enterprise Content Sources

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Relevance

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Administration and Management

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Indexing Controls

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Security

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People Search

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Business Data Search

Feature Included

Simple, clean yet powerful user interface with industry-standard query syntax. Scopes are decoupledfrom content sources so users can easily broaden or narrow the scope of a content search. Search canbe based on arbitrary content properties such as URL, type, and author. Actionable search results canbe easily filtered and sorted; used and shared. Alerts and RSS feeds easily provide updated results forcommon and frequent queries.Search results are rendered more clearly. Results are security trimmed so users only see what theycan access. Results include user-friendly features such as hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing andsynonym suggestion. Optional integration with real time communications tools allow users to easilycontact content authors and experts.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 toextend to additional 3rd party repostitories and filetypes through the use of Protocol Handlers andiFiltersNew and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content along with the use of relevance andranking factors such as click distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction yeildthe best results for enterprise contentImproved administration user interfaces and admin API provides broad support for various search andindexing scenarios, central controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for managementand reportingGranualr indexing controls for easy inclusion and exlusion of searched content as well as immediateresult removal of any site or item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh. Improvedcrawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per content source; a new browsable, filterableindex log provide necessary information to optimize searchAdministrator permissions no longer required by crawler. ACL and ACL-only crawls index contentpermissions for compliance, privacy, and protection of IP. Security-trimmed search results only allowusers to see content they are allowed to access.People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also byexpertise, social distance, and common interests.Search data residing in your line of business applications using the Business Data Catalog. Structuredcontent sources as well as LOB application data and reports accessible through web services orADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data Catalog as search results or into aSharePoint list