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Introduction
Welcome to the evaluation guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The goal of this
guide is to help you gain sufficient knowledge and understanding of Office SharePoint Server
2007 to evaluate this product from Microsoft.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organizations gain better control and insight over their
content, streamline their business processes, and access and share information. In addition,
Office SharePoint Server 2007 gives IT professionals the tools they need for server
administration and application extensibility and interoperability. Office SharePoint Server
2007 helps you to:
• Get more out of your information.
• Streamline your business processes.
• Simplify the way people work together.
• Ease server administration, extensibility, and interoperability.
These benefits are further described in the Product Overview section of this guide. The Top
10 Benefits section highlights the most important ways Office SharePoint Server 2007 can
help your organization make better use of its business information and processes.
Features at a Glance details the new and enhanced features for this release of Office
SharePoint Server including:
• Portal
• Search
• Content Management, including Document, Records, and Web Content
• Business Processes
• Business Intelligence
With this knowledge, you will be able to properly evaluate these new features and readily
describe their capabilities to your colleagues, clients, and business partners.
An evaluation guide is also available for Microsoft Windows® SharePoint Services (version 3).
However, solution developers, IT professionals, technical business decision makers,
journalists, and analysts can read the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation Guide without
referring to the Windows SharePoint Services Evaluation Guide.