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Table of Contents

Introduction to SharePoint..........................................................1

Introduction to SharePoint Server 2003......................................2

About personal context............................................................2

About connected collaboration..................................................4

About the portal site................................................................7

About integrated enterprise......................................................8

Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007..........................................................................................10

Overview.............................................................................10

Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePointServices...............................................................................12

Collaboration........................................................................13

Search.................................................................................15

Contentmanagement........................................................................16

SharePoint Server 2010............................................................18

What's New in Microsoft SharePoint Server

2010...................................................................................18

New user interface.................................................................19

Collaboration........................................................................20

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Social computing...................................................................28

Enterprise content management for documents, records, digitalassets and Web content.........................................................30

Search.................................................................................34

Site management and customization........................................36

Business intelligence..............................................................38

Business Connectivity Services (BCS).......................................41

SharePoint customization using InfoPath and SharePointDesigner..............................................................................42

List of References......................................................................45


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Introduction to SharePoint

The term SharePoint is often used informally to refer two things:

1. Microsoft technology (Windows SharePoint Services) and

2. Microsoft product (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007).

Windows SharePoint Services is a technology built on Microsoft

Windows Server, which may be used by any IT department to run

their enterprise network. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 gives a

basic set of features you can use to set up team sites and facilitate

collaboration among team members.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a Microsoft server product that

extends the features available in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to

provide enterprise-scale support for an organizations content

publishing, content management, records management, or business

intelligence needs.


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Introduction to SharePoint Server 2003

About personal context

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 creates a portal site

that remembers who you are and what information you care about and

work with. Based on Web Part Pages technology, SharePoint Portal

Server delivers customization and personalization that is flexible,

secure, and reliable. SharePoint Portal Server provides a rich set of

features focused on ensuring that users have easy access to relevant

information from a variety of entry points.

o Web Part Pages and Web Parts SharePoint Portal Server

provides site managers with a flexible policy for personalization

and customization. Site managers can customize the portal site to

users based on specific criteria. Portal site users can personalize

the site to facilitate collaboration or to provide custom views of

their projects, including by using Web sites based on Microsoft

Windows SharePoint Services to facilitate team collaboration.

o Audiences SharePoint Portal Server allows you to target

content to people according to their membership in a particular

audience. By default, SharePoint Portal Server includes an

audience called "All portal users." In addition to this audience,

you can create other audiences, such as by department or security

group. These audiences can span one or more portal sites in a
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deployment. After you create audiences, you can target content in

the portal site for viewing by one or more specific audiences. By

default, you can display targeted content on the home page and

on My Site.

o User profiles User profiles allow you to search for and

connect with people within your organization based on

information people publish about themselves. Index and search

services use the profile information to improve search results.

You can import user profile information directly from Microsoft

Active Directory directory service or enter it manually. You canalso customize the default user profile page by adding properties

according to the needs of your organization or to map to Active

Directory data, such as Territory or Geography.

o My Site My Site is a personal SharePoint site created in the

portal site that provides personalized and customized information

for you, including content targeted to you based on your

membership in a particular audience. User profile information is

used to generate personal sites.

o Alerts SharePoint Portal Server can alert you about new or

updated information on topics that match your interests. You can

choose to be alerted to content you find useful, such as

documents, news or other areas, or a set of search results. After

you create an alert, SharePoint Portal Server notifies you when

content is modified or new content matching your criteria is

available. In the case of documents, alerts can notify you when

Web discussion comments are added. You can view your alerts


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and alert results directly from My Site. You can also choose to

receive alert results by e-mail

About connected collaboration

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 facilitates easy,

connected collaboration across an enterprise organization. It enables

people to work together on documents, projects, and tasks and to

leverage best practices by using the combined collaboration features of

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Index and search

services, as well as newly introduced people services, allow you to

increase efficiency by finding relevant people, teams, sites, and other

information.

Finding and organizing sites, people, and other information

o Index and search

Search SharePoint Portal Server provides a

search feature that finds all types of content people,

documents, sites, and other items on the portal site

based on keywords you enter. Search can find content

stored in different sources, such as Web sites, file systems,

mail servers, and databases. The results can be organized

in different ways, such as by site, area, or date. For a more

specific search, you can use the advanced search option to

search by properties of items, to sort results by factors

other than relevance, and to set other advanced search

options.

Best Bets Best Bets enhance search efficiency

and provide guidance to users by directing them to people,

sites, documents, or other items considered particularly
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relevant to their search. SharePoint Portal Server displays

Best Bets at the top of a search results list.

Site Directory The Site Directory is the easiest

way to add content to the portal site for searching. When a

user adds a site, they have the option to include its contents

in search results. A search administrator can have sites

automatically approved for searching or can manage

approval for each site. After approval, a site is indexed and

its contents appear in search results.

Alerts You can ask to be alerted when changes

occur to the results for a specific search.

o Areas

To make it easy for users to navigate, browse, and

find what they need, you can divide portal site content into

areas. Areas let you organize content from documents

to people to sites into sets of related information even

though the content can be stored in different sources and

formats. To control all of the content in an area, the portal

site administrator can assign a manager for the area. The

manager can then control what content appears in the area

and who has access to it.

o People services

User profiles User profiles allow you to search for and

connect with people within your organization based on

information they publish about themselves. Index and search


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services use the profile information to improve search

results.

My Site My Site is a personal SharePoint site created in

the portal site that provides personalized and customized

information for you, including content targeted to you based

on your membership in a particular audience.

Audiences You can target content to a specific audience

based on a user's job or task. For example, in an area called

Human Resources, a site administrator or the manager of

that area can choose to add a news item targeted to all new

employees that directs them to the New Employee Benefits

site.

Sharing, collaborating, publishing, and managing

content

SharePoint Portal Server enables you to easily share information,

leverage best practices, and work together with others on documents,

projects, and other efforts. Some of the ways you can do that are by:

o Creating Web sites based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint

Services

Windows SharePoint Services allows you to create

a Web site by selecting a template that best suits the

project. SharePoint Portal Server includes a diverse

collection of templates to meet business needs.. If you

work with external customers or partners, or if you have

users who need to access data from outside of your

organization's firewall, SharePoint Portal Server allows

both internal and external users to view and interact with


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the same content and data. After the sites are created,

SharePoint Portal Server can search these sites the same

way it searches other content on the portal.

o Managing, publishing, and collaborating on documents

SharePoint Portal Server offers a number of

features that make it easy to find, organize, and work

together on documents. A document library offers a central

place to store documents and track changes, My Site is a

personal site where you can add links to documents you

work with often, the Topics area lets you organizedocuments under different topic headings, and Microsoft

Windows SharePoint Services Document Workspaces

offer a place for collaborating on documents with others.

About the portal site

The portal site offers a centralized access point for finding and

managing information. You can use a Web browser with the portal

site to perform tasks and search the portal. The portal site provides

access to information stored inside and outside your organization,

allowing users to find people, sites, documents, and other content

regardless of location or format. It also facilitates people working

together on documents, projects, and other efforts by using the

combined collaboration features of Microsoft SharePoint Products and

Technologies.


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You can customize the home page of the portal site to display

organizational news and other important information. From the portal

site, users can perform tasks such as:

Searching for information stored in many different places and in

many different formats

Browsing through content by areas, which divide content into

sets of related information so it's easier for users to find what

they want

Creating a personal site, called My Site, that provides a personal

view of the portal information that's relevant to the user and that

lets the user share information with others in the organization

Asking to be alerted to new or changing information, such as new

matches to a search query, changes to content in an area, or a new

site added to the Site Directory

Creating or linking to Web sites, including those based on

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, with collaboration

features that let you facilitate projects, document development,

and meeting organization

The portal site uses Web Part Page technology to organize and

display information. A Web Part Page consists of reusable,

customizable Web Parts such as Search, News, and

Announcements. You can easily add or remove Web Parts to

customize the portal site for your organization.


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About integrated enterprise

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides an

architecture that addresses the most demanding performance needs.

By using the latest technologies, SharePoint Portal Server provides a

centralized, unified interface for enterprise users and highly flexible

deployment options.

Microsoft .NET enterprise, scalable, distributed

architecture SharePoint Portal Server is built on the .NET

Framework, which is fast and scalable and uses ASP.NET,

common language runtime, Web Forms and Web Part Pages, and

a secure infrastructure to deliver better performance and greater

integration. Through its flexible deployment options from

single server to server farm configurations SharePoint Portal

Server is designed to have high availability and manageability.

Business applications SharePoint Portal Server can present

specific applications and customized content based on the users

functional group and organizational role.

Delegated administration The portal site administrator can

assign different managers for areas in the portal site. The content

manager can then control what content appears in the area and

who has access to the area.

Single sign-on The single sign-on service is an authentication

process that permits a user to enter one name and password to

access multiple applications.


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The following list offers examples of how specific 2007 Office release

programs work with Office SharePoint Server 2007:

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Create a library of PowerPoint

slides that can be shared with other users on an Office SharePoint Server

2007 site.

Microsoft Office Access 2007 Take a SharePoint list offline and

use the reporting features in Office Access 2007 to view the data and

create reports while travelling. Forms and reports that use the SharePoint

list are fully interactive and Office Access 2007 can later synchronize

the local list with the online list when you bring your laptop back online.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Take document libraries offline.

SharePoint folders are displayed just as other Outlook folders are.

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Design browser-compatible form

templates, publish them to an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, and

enable them for use in a Web browser.

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Save worksheets on a SharePoint site

so that users can access them by using a browser. You can use these

worksheets to maintain and efficiently share one central, up-to-date

version, while helping to protect any proprietary information, such as

financial models, that is embedded in the worksheet.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Create and customize

Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites and workflows. Create your own

master pages and content pages, so that your site has a consistent look

and feel, or customize sites by using the latest ASP.NET technology,

established Web standards such as Extensible Hypertext Markup

Language (XHTML) code, and cascading style sheets.


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Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services

Windows SharePoint Services is a technology that is included in MicrosoftWindows Server 2003. Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay

connected and productive by providing easy access to the people,

documents, and information that they need to make well-informed decisions

and get work done.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 relies on the Windows SharePoint Services

3.0 technology to provide a consistent, familiar framework for lists andlibraries, site administration, and site customization. Any features that are

available in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are also available in Office

SharePoint Server 2007.

However, Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers enhanced and additional

features that are unavailable on a Windows SharePoint Services site. For

example, both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePointServices include site templates for collaborating with colleagues and setting

up meetings. However, Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes a number of

additional site templates that are related to enterprise and publishing

scenarios. Similarly, Office SharePoint Server 2007 enhances the search


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technology from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to include features that

are useful for employees in large organizations, such as the ability to search

for business data in SAP, Siebel, and other business applications.

Collaboration

By using the following features in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can

work more efficiently and effectively with other people in your organization:

Use site templates to collaborate or manage meetings When you create

a new Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, you can start by selecting one of

several different kinds of site templates for collaborating with other people

and managing meetings. The site templates in the Collaboration group are

designed to help teams within an organization work on projects and

collaborate on documents. For example, by using the Document Workspace

site template, you can work with other people on a document or a set of

documents. The site templates in the Meetings group are designed to help

teams within an organization manage different kinds of meetings. Thetemplates in this group support everything from basic meetings to decision-

focused meetings or even social events.

Share documents, contacts, tasks, and calendars You can synchronize

your Office SharePoint Server 2007 calendar with Office Outlook 2007. You

can enter all-day events and specify more types of repeating, or recurring,

events. You can track team projects more effectively with visual day andmonth views.

Brainstorm easily with wiki sites A wiki site enables you to brainstorm

ideas, collaborate on a team design, build an encyclopedia of knowledge, or

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Your team members can contribute to wikis from their browsers they

don't need a word processor or special technical knowledge.

Share ideas with blogs A blog, or weblog, consists of frequent short

posts that are displayed in order, starting with the most recent post. With

Office SharePoint Server 2007, it just takes a few clicks to create a blog,

post to a blog, subscribe to updates to a blog, or customize a blog.

Receive updates to lists and libraries with RSS Lists and libraries use

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology, so that members of your

workgroup can automatically receive updates. RSS is a technology that

enables people to receive and view updates orfeeds of news, blogs, and

other items of interest in a consolidated location.

Manage projects You can create a Project Tasks list, which includes a

Gantt chart. A Gantt chart is a type of visual overview of project tasks that

you can use to monitor the dates and progress of team tasks.

Get mobile access to content You can view portals, team sites, and lists

on a mobile device to help you stay current on team projects and tasks when

you are travelling. For example, lists appear on phones (or other

telecommunications devices that support international standards) in a

simplified text format, with a link to scroll through the content of each page.

Send e-mail to Office SharePoint Server 2007 You can use an e-mail

program to participate in discussions, meetings, and documents on an Office

SharePoint Server 2007 site. Just as you send e-mail messages to your team

to discuss tasks and projects, you can also send e-mail messages to an Office

SharePoint Server 2007 site or to a specific list or library.


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Manage documents and some types of lists offline You can take your

important work with you wherever you go. With Office Outlook 2007, you

can work offline on files in a library and items in the following types of lists:

calendars, contacts, tasks, and discussions. When you connect back online,

you can update your files on the server. List items are updated automatically.

Search

Finding the right information or person is what search is all about. You can

use the powerful search-related features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 to

find exactly what you are looking for, such as the people who have theexpertise that you need to get your job done.

Search from the Search Center The Search Center site provides a central

location for initiating queries and browsing search results. If you add

information about yourself to your My Site page, other people in your

organization can use the Search Center to locate you, information about your

projects, and your contacts.

Find documents on your intranet You can search for documents that

contain a specific word or phrase, that are written in a specific language, that

are created in a specific application, or that have specific properties.

Find people on your intranet Finding the right person can be critical for

getting things done quickly. You can search for someone by name, or you

can use other profile details, such as skills, current projects, or title. You can

also search for people in your organization's enterprise applications.

Find business data in enterprise applications The Search features in

Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help you find information in enterprise


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applications such as SAP and Siebel, or in custom databases that were

created for your organization.

Content management

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides the foundation for document

management tasks, such as versioning, auditing, and workflow. Office

SharePoint Server 2007 extends these capabilities to deliver enhanced

document authoring, business document processing, Web content

management and publishing, records management, policy management, and

support for multilingual publishing.

In Office SharePoint Server 2007, content management is divided into three

categories: document management, records management, and Web content

management.

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

Document management features determine how documents in yourorganization are created, reviewed, published, and accessed. With Office

SharePoint Server 2007, it is possible to enforce appropriate policies at

every step of the document life cycle, use centralized repositories for storing,

managing, and accessing documents, and use labels and barcodes to

efficiently track documents.

RECORDS MANAGEMENT

Records management is the process of collecting, managing, and disposing

of corporate records (information deemed important for the history,

knowledge, or legal defense of a company) in a consistent and uniform


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manner based on an organization's policies. These policies are shaped by the

type of work that the organization does, the kinds of legal risks it faces, and

the laws and regulations that govern it. Office SharePoint Server 2007

introduces a new set of features for creating and supporting formal records

management capabilities in your organization.

WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes many features that are useful for

designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, corporate

Internet presence Web sites, and divisional portal sites. By using these

features, employees in your organization can create and publish Web content

in a timely manner, which can reduce the cost and overhead of managing

multiple sites.


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SharePoint Server 2010

What's New in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes several key enhancements and

additions. The ribbon, part of the redesigned user interface, helps you getyour work done faster by placing commands on task-based tabs that are easy

to navigate. Work across multiple Internet browsers such as Microsoft

Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0, Firefox 3.0, and Safari 3.0. Finding and

working with features such as SharePoint sites, lists, wikis, blogs, and

permissions is now easier and more streamlined. New social networking

features help you more easily locate the people and information you are

most interested in. With new enterprise content management features,

improvements to Search, and improved collaboration tools, you can work in

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 more efficiently and intuitively.

With enhanced functionality in Excel Services and PerformancePoint

Services for SharePoint 2010, you can manage your business data more

efficiently, and monitor and analyze business performance against goals

more easily.
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New user interface

Use the new ribbon to perform tasks quickly and in the context of your

work

The new ribbon in SharePoint Server 2010 is designed to help you quickly

find the commands that you need to complete your tasks. Commands are

organized in logical groups, displayed together under tabs. Each tab relates

to a type of activity, such as working with a document in a document library

or adding and formatting text on a page. You can use the ribbon in

SharePoint Server 2010 to:

Access the commands and tools you need all in one place. Perform actions on pages, documents and lists using only the

commands you need, and in the context of what you are doing and for

the task you want to accomplish.


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Collaboration

Use the new co-authoring feature to work simultaneously with

colleagues on Word documents or PowerPoint slide presentations

More than one person can edit a Word document or slides in a

SharePoint library at the same time. For example, to review a document

you can send a link to the document in a SharePoint library, and all of

the reviewers can provide their feedback in the document

simultaneously.

No more attachmentsyou can, for example, store all of your recentdocuments in your My Site and work on them at the same time with

other colleagues.


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Schedule meetings and keep track of your schedule more easily with

improved calendars

Managing and tracking your appointments, meetings, and other events is

easier because you can:

Display multiple SharePoint and Exchange calendars on a single page.

Easily add events to a calendar by clicking a date and entering details

for the event without leaving the calendar.

Drag and drop items within a calendar.

Use the new Group calendar to schedule meetings with colleagues andschedule resources such as audio visual equipment and meeting rooms.


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Use the new Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 to work with

SharePoint sites, libraries, and lists offline and synchronize your

changes when you reconnect to your corporate network

Microsoft SharePoint Workspace now enables you to work with a

SharePoint site on your desktop while connected to or disconnected from

your corporate network. Major benefits of this offline and online integration

include:

You can quickly view, add, edit and delete SharePoint library

documents or list items while you are offline.

Two-way synchronization between your computer and the network

that is, updates to data on your computer or on the networkare

automatic while you are connected to the network.

Content is automatically synchronized when you take your computer

offline and then go back online.

You can use the new External List feature to work more efficiently

with back-end business datasuch as SQL Server databases and SAP

while you are offline.


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Share information with others more efficiently with improved wiki and

team sites

Working with wiki pages is more streamlined because now you can:

Insert and format content directly on the page with the new Rich Text

Editor.

Browse for images or photos on your local computer or network and

insert them into your site without leaving the page you are on.


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Manage multiple items in your SharePoint lists more efficiently

Now you can select multiple items in a list and click a button to perform the

same action on all the items at the same time. For example, you can check in

or check out several documents at the same time.


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Create and manage your blogs more easily with improved authoring

tools and new navigation

With improvements to the blog authoring experience you can:

Use the new Rich Text Editor to more easily and intuitively author

your blog posts.

Browse for images or photos on your local computer or network and

insert them into your blog posts without leaving the page.

Browse blog entries by month as well as by categories. You can see

the number of posts for each month or category in real time. A new

Archive link provides access to a view of all months since the blogs

inception and, within each month, posts are listed by category.


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View and work with SharePoint information from your mobile device

With SharePoint Web pages optimized for viewing on small devices, you

can now view and work with documents, blogs, wikis, back-end business

data and sites from your mobile phone. Listed below are some of the new

mobile features in SharePoint Server 2010.

Use the lightweight interface and navigation for accessing SharePoint

document libraries, lists, wikis, blogs, Web Part Pages, and back-endbusiness data.

Use the mobile search experience for finding people, contact

information, SharePoint content, and finding data in custom databases.

Subscribe to text message (SMS) alerts for changes to documents in

SharePoint or to any SharePoint document library or list.

View Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents in

mobile browsers.

Integration with gateways such as UAG, ISA for cross firewall access.

Provide a mobile development platform to build custom SharePoint

mobile solutions beyond the out-of-the-box mobile experience.


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Social computing

With the new features in SharePoint Server 2010 you can locate content andstay informed about people and areas of interest that matter most to you.

Find and help others find interesting information

New features include newsfeeds, social tagging, and ratings so that you can

more easily keep track of your colleagues activities, as well as share

relevant content.

Use My Sites to promote interaction through expertise sharing

Improvements to My Sites help you use your My Sites and profiles to share

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responsibilities to profiles makes it easier for colleagues to find each other

through newsfeeds, ask and answer questions, and to connect in other ways.

Follow people and interests that matter to you

You can use activity feeds on My Sites to follow your colleagues activities,

stay informed of developments in areas you are interested in, and connect

with others who are looking for help in areas you are interested in. You can

also receive recommendations for new colleagues or keywords to follow, so

that you can expand your professional network and knowledge.


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Enterprise content management for documents, records, digital assets

and Web content

The new enterprise content management features in SharePoint Server 2010

enable you to manage documents, records, digital assets, and published Web

pages more efficiently.

With the new Managed Metadata features, you can manage taxonomies

and metadata across your SharePoint sites

The new Managed Metadata service in SharePoint Server 2010 provides a

set of features that enable organizations to manage taxonomies and metadataconsistently across enterprise. With the new Managed Metadata service you

can:


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list or library by using metadata rather than by folder location. Unique

document IDs make content easy to find regardless of its location.

New flexible policy and records management features allow you to

choose whether to manage records in place or in a central repository

SharePoint Server now supports the management and discovery of content in

place, without the need for a locked down repository for official records.

Some of the new records management features include:

In-place records management that enables you to store records in

place next to in-progress content.

Retention policies that now include complex schedules, such as multi-

staged schedules and more than seven included record management

actions, such as Send to a records archive and Declare as an in-

place record.

For larger archives, the Records Center site has been improved by the

addition of a hierarchical file plan, submission methods driven by

metadata, and the ability to band together multiple site collections that

can be managed as one large repository.


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Improved Web Content Management features make it easier to create

and manage your site

New and improved Web Content Management features make it easier to

publish Web pages and manage sites. In addition, SharePoint Server 2010

now includes support for streaming video.

The Web content authoring experience has been improved and

simplified with the addition of the ribbon, which consolidates page

commands and makes commands more task-based.

Improvements to export behavior as well as logging and reporting

make content deployments easier.

Out-of-the-box Web Analytics features provide support for Traffic,

Search, and Inventory analytics reports.

New support for rich media includes a new Asset Library, with rich

views and pickers; support for videos as a SharePoint content type; a

streaming video infrastructure, and a skinable Silverlight media

player.

Large page libraries simplify the management of Web sites with many

pages.

Creating and managing different versions, or "variations" of

publishing sites or pages is an operation that is now submitted to a

queue and occurs in the background so users can continue working in

SharePoint while the operation completes. A ViewChanges command has been added that allows you to compare an

older version of a Web page with a more recent one. Changes are

highlighted in a special report to enable side-by-side editing in the

Rich Text Editor.


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Search

New Search features in SharePoint Server 2010 make it easier for you to

locate more relevant information and find colleagues quickly and efficiently.

Improvements include a new results layout that refines information into

categories, and includes better descriptions and metadata. In addition, people

who are in your social circle will appear toward the top of your search

results.

Get better answers, faster

Enterprise search features include ways to find information and people, and

ways to navigate search results. New features include:

Refinement: helps to inform you about results and allows you to

narrow result by specific types such as site, author, or date.

Pre-populated query suggestions, related search links, and acronym

expansion.


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Ability to query for documents by using Boolean syntax (AND, OR,

and NOT), and prefix wildcards (*).

Ability to search SharePoint content from a computer running

Windows 7. Improved Did you mean? to support more languages and terms

within your enterprise.

Search is a social experience

By using search with the social computing and collaboration features in

SharePoint Server 2010 you can:

Search for a person by expertise to find someone who has the skills

that match your needs.

Use the phonetic name lookup to find similar sounding names (is it

John or Jon?).

Refine search results by using categories such as department or job

title.

Other search improvements

The search model uses the properties (or metadata) that you or your

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phrases that might locate missing or inaccurate properties, which helps

improve relevance.

Site searches are automatically scoped to the current site and its subsites

rather than all sites.

Site management and customization

Several new features related to permissions management, site design and an

international user interface optimize how you can use, design and access

SharePoint sites and content.

View and adjust permission levels, including item-level permissions, for

a particular user or group using the new permissions management

tool

New permissions management is available from every site collection, site,

list or list item, so that you can easily add or remove users or groups, change


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permission levels, break inheritance, and manage anonymous access. In

addition, you can view and adjust all permission levels granted to a

particular user or group.

Change colors and fonts for a site using newly supported theme files

Use the new Themes Gallery to select from several themes included with

SharePoint Server 2010. You can also generate your own theme files from

Microsoft PowerPoint and add them to the gallery for selection.

Make your site internationally accessible by changing the language of

your site

With the appropriate language packs installed, you can view settings pages,

Help, and application content such as list titles and column names in your

preferred language.


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Business intelligence

SharePoint Server offers more robust business intelligence capabilities

through enhanced functionality in Excel Services, PerformancePoint

Services, and Business Connectivity Services (BCS), a SharePoint-based

framework that provides standardized interfaces to existing business data

and processes.

Work with enhanced Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities using Excel

Services

Excel Services enhances the Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities ofSharePoint Server 2010, providing:

Improved features for visual data analysis, such as enhanced

conditional formatting, sparklines, and intuitive data exploration by

using filters.

Tightly integrated client functionality with the PowerPivot for

SharePoint, a new self-service BI feature from SQL Server Analysis

Services.

The ability to analyze millions of records quickly and easily.

If you also install and configure the Office Web Apps, Excel Web

App offers even more. These new features include:

New formatting and editing capabilities that enable you to edit and

format spreadsheets directly in the Web browser just as you would in

Excel. You can now apply color, style and size formatting to lines,

borders, and numbers, and use the same background color features

that you know from Excel.


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Browser-based creation of new workbooks, and tables in workbooks.

Add rich charts to your SharePoint sites by using the new Chart Web

Part

The new Chart Web Part, based on Dundas data visualization techniques,

enables you to add rich charts to your SharePoint sites by using Web-based

configuration to connect charts to data from a variety of sources, such as

SharePoint lists, external lists, Business Data Services, Excel Services, and

other Web Parts.

Monitor and analyze business performance using PerformancePoint

Services

PerformancePoint Services makes it easier to monitor and analyze

performance against goals and make better business decisions.

Create and use interactive dashboards with scorecards, reports

(including Reporting Services and Excel Services Reports), and

filters.


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Create and use scorecards that bring together data from multiple data

sources (including Analysis Services, SQL Server, SharePoint lists

and Excel Services) to track and monitor your data.

Use powerful analytic reports to identify driving forces and root

causes, and apply filters to personalize your reports.

Integrate your business intelligence applications and information with

other powerful SharePoint features, such as collaboration and content

management.

Manage and secure your PerformancePoint content with better

SharePoint Integration

PerformancePoint Services enables you to manage and secure your

PerformancePoint content in SharePoint Server 2010. PerformancePoint

Services takes advantage of SharePoint Server scalability, collaboration,

backup and restore, and disaster recovery capabilities. Dashboards and

dashboard items are stored, managed, and secured within SharePoint lists

and libraries, providing you with a single security and repository framework.

Access more detailed business information with improved scorecards

Enhanced scorecards make it easy for you to drill down and quickly access

more detailed information. PerformancePoint scorecards also offer more

flexible layout options, dynamic hierarchies, and calculated Key

Performance Indicator (KPI) features. Using this enhanced functionality,

you can now create custom metrics that use multiple data sources. You can

also sort, filter, and view variances between actual and target values to help

you identify concerns or risks.


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Create analytic reports to better understand underlying business forces

behind the results

Enhanced analytic reports support value filtering, new chart types, and

server-based conditional formatting. The unique visualization

Decomposition Tree, a new report type available in PerformancePoint

Services, enables you to quickly and visually break down higher-level values

so you can understand the driving forces behind them.

Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables SharePoint integration withexternal data, including line of business applications. BCS builds on top of

the Business Data Catalog (BDC) technology delivered in Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007. Use BCS to:

More easily define external content typespreviously referred to as

entitiesby using SharePoint Designers visual interface, without

using an XML editor.

Connect to a wider range of data sourcesrelational databases, SAP,

Web services, and custom applicationsand interact with them in

richer ways, including full create, read, update, and delete support.

Use rich client extensions to build a SharePoint application and extend

it to Office client applications such as SharePoint Workspace, Outlook

and Word, so you can work with your external data offline. View external back-end business data across server and client

applications with no customization, including seamless business data

integration with SharePoint lists.


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SharePoint customization using InfoPath and SharePoint Designer

Stronger integration between InfoPath, Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010

and SharePoint Server 2010 enable you to more easily customize SharePoint

lists, views, and workflows.

Customize SharePoints list forms

InfoPath can now be used to fully customize SharePoints list forms. You

can change the look of the form, switch to multi-column layouts, break the

form into sections, validate the information entered, pre-populate fields, and

cause sections of the form to show and hide automatically. From any list,

click the Customize Form command on the ribbon to launch InfoPath. After

customizing the form, publish the form back to the SharePoint site to replace

the default form.

Customize SharePoints list views

All standard views of list items in SharePoint Server 2010 now use the

customizable XSLT list view Web Part, making list view customization in

SharePoint faster and easier. From SharePoint Designer 2010, you can

quickly apply custom styles to SharePoints list views and conditionally

format rows based on their content.


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Customize SharePoint workflows

SharePoint Designer 2010 can now be used to fully customize the "big

three" workflows in SharePointthe Approval, Collect Feedback, and

Collect Signature workflows. Workflow capability has been expanded with

new actions such as the rich pre-built approval actions. Reusable workflows

can be designed once, and then reused across multiple lists, document

libraries, or content types. The SharePoint Designer 2010 user experience

has been completely redesigned using the ribbon, creating an experience

thats simpler and more familiar to people who use Office.


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List of References:-

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/planning-for-your-first-

microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-site-HA010289359.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/?CTT=97

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/CH001171447.aspx
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