Microsoft SharePoint Services
Created By Vaibhav SrivastavaWhat is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to MicrosoftOffice SharePoint Server 2007?
Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services -- a keypiece of the information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003-- provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktopapplications, and it serves as a platform for application development.Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 toprovide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise contentmanagement, 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 knowledgeacross business processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from varioussystems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise applicationintegration capabilities. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, andfacilitates end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization, andsearching. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevantinformation through customization and personalization of portal content and layout aswell as through audience targeting.
What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sitesfor information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Servicesprovides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktopapplications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePointsites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together ondocuments, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment,administration, and application development.
What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and MicrosoftWindows 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 team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, andbusiness processes --facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePointPortal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providingorganizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams topublish information to the entire organization.
Who is Office SharePoint Server 2007 designed for?
Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators,and application 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.
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Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, andmanagement of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightlyintegrated into familiar, everyday applications.Created By Vaibhav SrivastavaOrganizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partnersacross organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services -driven solutions.Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through thefacilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition,access to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this datacan be personalized.Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management,and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks.Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called OfficeBusiness Applications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibilityand ease of deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box application services, developers can build richer applications with less code.
What is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internetsites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft OfficeSharePoint Server 2007 have identical feature functionality. While the featurefunctionality is similar, the usage rights are different.If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that youuse Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require thepurchase client access licenses. Websites hosted using an "Internet sites" edition canonly be used for Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applicationsmust be accessible to non-employees. Websites hosted using an "Internet sites" editioncannot be accessed by employees creating, sharing, or collaborating on content which issolely for internal use only, such as an Intranet Portal scenario. See the previous sectionon licensing for more information on the usage scenarios.
What suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with Office SharePointServer 2007?
Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePointdocument libraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks.Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, willenable bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries.Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will onlybe enabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007.Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 fileformat (XLSX).
How do I invite users to join a Windows SharePoint Services Site? Is the sitesecure?
SharePoint-based Web sites can be password-protected to restrict access to registeredusers, who are invited to join via e-mail. In addition, the site administrator can restrictcertain members' roles by assigning different permission levels to view post and edit.
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Can I post any kind of document?
You can post documents in many formats, including .pdf, .htm and .doc. In addition, if youare using Microsoft Office XP, you can save documents directly to your WindowsSharePoint Services site.
Can I download information directly from a SharePoint site to a personal digitalassistant (PDA)?
No you cannot. However, you can exchange contact information lists with MicrosoftOutlook.
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 andyour team members contribute to the site by filling out lists. Standard forms includeannouncements, 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 officeetc.
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 entiresite. Then you can give out your URL to anybody in your business card, e-mail or anyother marketing material. The URL for your Web site will be: http:// yoursitename.wss.bcentral.comHence, please take special care to name your site. These Web sites are ideal for information and knowledge intensive sites and/or sites where you need to have sharedWeb workspace. Remember: Under each parent Web site, you can create up to 10 sub-sites each with unique permissions, 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/financehttp://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/marketing
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