Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Let's Talk about .. MOSS 2007

.. I have to use Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 for the project that I was assigned. This is the first time that I use MOSS 2007. I know from MSDN Magazine that there are many better features than SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003.

MOSS 2007 is built on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or WSS 3.0 and ASP.NET 2.0. Therefore, MOSS 2007 portal sites are created using WSS features and site definitions along with ASP.NET building blocks such as Master Pages and Web Parts and are added by ASP.NET components such as server-side controls and custom Web Parts. The special features are Portal and Search.

There are the extra dimension inside MOSS 2007 - Web Content Management, Document & Record Management, Business Process Integration and Forms, and Business Intelligence.

One of the Business Intelligence Features is the Excel Service which is a server-side version of the traditional Excel calculation engine on top of WSS 3.0. Users can see the numbers displayed by a worksheet within Browser.

For the Managing Documents and Business Processes, MOSS 2007 introduces "InfoPath Forms Services" that also renders the InfoPath within Browser. And we can use InfoPath 2007 Form Designer to create Web-enabled forms.

That's just a little introduction of the "Assembly and Configure" Philosophy application, MOSS
2007.

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