• Collaboration Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs
• Portals Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalise the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user’s profile.
• Enterprise Search Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
• Enterprise Content Management Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
• Business Process and Forms Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
• Business Intelligence Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyse and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.

Integration with 2007 Microsoft Office System

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is designed to work effectively with other programs, servers, and technologies in the 2007 Office release. For example, with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you can create a slide library on an OfficeSharePoint Server 2007 site that allows other users to pick specific slides for their own presentation and receive notifications and updated versions when the slides have been modified.

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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

SharePoint Products and Technologies provide enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, simplifying how people find and share information across boundaries, and enabling better informed decisions. Using the combined collaboration features of Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007, plus the design and customisation capabilities of Office SharePoint Designer 2007, organisations can enable their users to create, manage, and easily build their own SharePoint sites, and enable these sites to be discovered throughout the organisation.

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How are Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services related?

If you've heard about Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, you may wonder how it relates to Office SharePoint Server 2007. Windows SharePoint Services is an enabling technology that is included in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. It 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 and libraries, site administration, and site customisation. Any features that are available in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are also available in Office SharePoint Server 2007.