Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Product Guide

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Product Guide is available. I have written about its new web 2.0 related features. Here is an indepth treatment. It claims to provide “a Single, Integrated Platform to Manage Intranet, Extranet, and Internet Applications.” The only question is the robustness. It does have templates for blogs and wikis, a social networking capability and RSS. It also states in support of the integrated platform concept that “Office SharePoint Server 2007 has an open, scalable, services-oriented architecture that provides support for interoperability standards including XML and SOAP, which makes it easier to integrate with existing processes and applications.”

In the benefits section it lists as number one. “1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data.”

Benefits 4, 5, 6 are related and if the capability is robust hold great promise for moving in the direction of Intranet 2.0. They speak to transparency, access, and re-use. 4. Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value. 5. Simplify organization-wide access to structured and unstructured information across disparate systems. 6. Connect people with information and expertise.

Here is where you go for the latest information about Office SharePoint Server 2007,

For the old style you can also get "Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes" by Colin Spence, Michael Noel - Price: $10.19. Thanks to Stan Garfield for pointing this out. enterprise 2.0 enterprise social media

Comments

[Dennis McDonald]

One disappointment I have is that use of the "Knowledge Network" feature requires your use of Outlook for email, which I don't use. That's an obvious Microsoft business perspective but by effectively requiring use of one specific client to access this feature it shuts out many others from what might have been a more universal server based product.

[bill Ives]

Dennis

Good point. One of the benefits of goign the Shareppint route is that it is very cheap if you are already an enteprise Microsoft user. However, that is the good and bad news. I am an individual Mac user so it would not apply to me either. Thanks for your comment. Bill