Getting Started with SharePoint Server

The Business Data Catalog functionality enables you to present line-of-business data within MOSS. Learn how to use the Business Data Catalog to search and retrieve information from back-end systems such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning applications.

SharePoint Server 2007 provides a set of client and server document services to help you manage and work with the growing volumes of content today's business processes generate.

SharePoint Server 2007 adds new features and enhancements to Enterprise Search. The new features provide a consistent and familiar search experience, increased relevance of search results, new functions to search for people and expertise, ability to index and search data in line-of-business applications, and improved manageability and extensibility.

Excel Services enables Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks to be loaded, calculated, and rendered on SharePoint Server. Excel Services is designed to be a scalable, robust, enterprise-class server that provides feature and calculation fidelity with Excel.

InfoPath Forms Services enables users to open and fill out Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms in a Web browser when they are stored in SharePoint Server 2007. Users who do not have InfoPath 2007 installed on their computers can work with the same form layout and logic as users who do have InfoPath installed. The same form can also be used in the browser or in the client, which simplifies the form template design and management process.

SharePoint Server 2007 Web content management (WCM) features enable you to configure, deploy, customize, optimize, and publish sites, site collections, pages, Web Parts, and documents.

Sites that you create with SharePoint Server 2007 remember who you are and what information you care about and work with. By taking advantage of features in the Windows SharePoint Services platform, SharePoint Server delivers customization and personalization that is flexible and reliable. SharePoint Server provides a rich set of features focused on ensuring that users have easy access to relevant information from various entry points.

SharePoint Server 2007 builds on and extends the workflow development framework in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Learn about best practices for many common types of customizations and whether they are supported in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Get overview information and step-by-step, how-to procedures for administering SharePoint Server 2007 programmatically.