Office SharePoint Server 2007

• Office SharePoint Server 2007 [Client Access Licences]
  
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 [for Internet Sites, Open Licensing]
  
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 [Server]
  

• Portal Site Templates - reconfigured site templates are included for quickly creating, customising, deploying, and managing divisional portals, organisation-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate internet presence websites
• Site Manager - which replaces the Portal Site Map administration page, is a web-based drag-and-drop tool for managing a SharePoint site's navigation, security access, and general look and feel. It unifies site management tasks for portal and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and their component parts
• Social Networking - additional functionality that makes it easier to discover social networking connections between employees. Public My Site pages can include Social Networking web parts that use information about your organisation, communities, and electronic communications.
• Privacy Controls - are used to control visibility of information in a My Site public view. Authorisations to view selected public content on a My Site personal site include "My Manager," "My Workgroup," "My Colleagues," and "Everyone"
• SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-up Web Part - lists all the SharePoint sites that you are a member of. It lists the documents you have published across a collection of SharePoint sites.
• Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts - lists people you know, or who have interests in common with you, and people who belong to common distribution lists and groups
• Site Directory - is the "Scan for Broken Links" button that locates changed or deleted links to external content
• Real-Time Presence and Communication - this Smart Tag icon, is displayed virtually everywhere a person's name appears in Office SharePoint Server 2007. It tells you in real time whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audio conference call, instant messaging, or two-way video conversation
• LDAP Pluggable Authentication Provider - authenticates users of Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Profile Synchronisation - supports the extended capabilities of the Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance
• Audience Targeting - web part pages, web parts, and content can be targeted to distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences. Audiences in SharePoint Server 2007 benefit from the richer collections of properties available in the Profile Store
• Mobile Device Support - by default, all Office SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages render on both International and North American mobile devices (including web-enabled mobile phones) using a simplified text-only format.

To view all the new features please see the SharePoint Server 2007 Data Sheet in suporting documents.

• Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience - SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data
• Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities - take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. You can complete these activities without any coding
• Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content - by specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for business records in accordance with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively. And you can reduce litigation risk for your organisation
• Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value - business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document
• Simplify organisation-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems - give users access to business data found in common line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel through Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalised views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections
• Connect people with information and expertise - Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates business data along with information about documents, people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find what you need
• Accelerate shared business processes across organisational boundaries - without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms-driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry
• Share business data without divulging sensitive information - give employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a web browser through Excel Services running on SharePoint Server. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents
• Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location - SharePoint Server makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, web parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies. Centralised Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs
• Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise - SharePoint Server is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.

Server and client access licensing.

For each server, or each server in a farm, a valid server license must be purchased. For each client accessing Office SharePoint Server 2007, a Standard CAL must be purchased. To enable the enterprise features of Office SharePoint Server 2007, an Enterprise CAL, in addition to the Standard CAL, must be purchased. Once the enterprise features are enabled on a server, clients accessing that server, or farm of servers, should have a valid Enterprise CAL in addition to their Standard CAL when accessing the enterprise functionality.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Server Licence
integrated information management system provides enterprise-class capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, enabling better-informed decisions, finding information and organizational expertise, and simplifying how people work together across boundaries.

This licence is required to run Office SharePoint Server 2007 in client/server mode. You should use this licence with the requisite number of Client Access Licences (CALs) appropriate for your organizational needs.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Client Access Licence (CAL), Standard Edition
This client access licence allows you to access your Office SharePoint Servers to meet your information management needs. As part of this licence, you receive the core capabilities of Office SharePoint Server such as managing content and business processes, enabling better-informed decisions, finding information and organizational expertise, and simplifying how people work together across boundaries.

This license is also part of the Core CAL suite.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL), Enterprise Edition
This client access license is an additional license on top of the Office SharePoint Server CAL, Standard Edition. A customer must acquire both the Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition CALs in order to use the Enterprise Edition functionality of Office SharePoint Server.

This CAL adds rights for you to use the Line of Business data integration and search, Business Intelligence including performance management dashboard and web-based spreadsheets, and electronic forms. This license is also part of the Enterprise CAL suite.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites
You may use the software only for Internet-facing websites. All content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-employees. This license has all the features of the Enterprise Edition of Office SharePoint Server.

This is a per server license that does not require the purchase of Client Access licenses.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search, Server License

Used to be part of the Office SharePoint range but are designated now under the title 'Search Server'.

Computer and processor

• Server with processor speed of 2.5 gigahertz (GHz) or higher; dual processor, 3 GHz or higher recommended

Memory

• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM; 2 GB recommended

Hard disk

• 3 GB of available hard disk

Drive

• 3 GB of available hard disk

Display

• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor

Operating system

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
• Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
• Windows Server 2003 Web Edition later plus service packs
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Other

• 100 megabits per second (Mbps) connection speed required for farm deployment
• 56 kilobits per second (Kbps) required for client to server connection
• Internet Simple Mail Transfer Protocol/Post Office Protocol 3 (SMTP/POP3)
• Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4)
• MAPI-compliant messaging software required for e-mail notifications.

Browser
Although administrative tasks on SharePoint sites are optimised for level 1 browsers, Office SharePoint Server 2007 also provides rendering support for other browsers that are commonly used. To ensure that you have complete access to all the functionality, we recommend that you use a level 1 browser for administrative tasks.

Level 1 Web browsers

• Win 2000, Win XP, Win2003, Vista client with IE6 or IE7

Level 2 Web browsers

• Win 2000, Win XP, Win2003, Vista client with Firefox 1.5, Mozilla 1.7 or Netscape 8.1
• Unix/Linus with Firefox 1.5 or Netscape 7.2
• Mac OS-X with Firefox 1.5 or Safari 2.0

If a browser is not listed in either level 1 or level 2, it is not supported. For example, older browsers - such as Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 5.5x, Internet Explorer for Macintosh, and versions of third-party Web browsers that are earlier than the ones listed as level 2 browsers - are not supported.