Portal Site Templates New |
Preconfigured site templates are included for quickly creating, customising, deploying, and managing divisional portals, organisation-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Internet presence websites. |
Site Manager New |
Site Manager, which replaces the Portal Site Map administration page, is a Web-based drag-and-drop tool for managing a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portal and websites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and their component parts. Site Manager supports the bulk creation, editing, reorganization, and deletion of areas, as well as the viewing of relationships between pages. |
My Site Personal Sites Enhanced |
My Site personal sites has several significant enhancements including: Social networking, Privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents roll-up Web Parts, Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts |
Social Networking New |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 has additional functionality that makes it easier to discover social networking connections between employees. Public My Site pages can include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your organisation, communities, and electronic communications. This can help you identify colleagues with common interests and produce better, more relevant search results. In addition, Social Networking helps establish personal connections by finding people you work or communicate with as well as people who have something in common with you, such as common distribution lists, group and SharePoint site memberships, or common responsibilities and skills. Social Networking gives you the option of using user profile information from Microsoft Active Directory®, LOB applications, or e-mail and other forms of electronic communication. |
Privacy Controls Enhanced |
Privacy Controls are used to control visibility of information in a My Site public view. Authorizations to view selected public content on a My Site personal site include “My Manager,” “My Workgroup,” “My Colleagues,” and “Everyone.” |
SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-up Web Part New |
The new SharePoint Sites roll-up Web Part lists all the SharePoint sites that you are a member of. The new Documents roll-up Web Part lists the documents you have published across a collection of SharePoint sites. This Web Part also supports more general capabilities for querying and filtering the documents stored in a collection of SharePoint sites. |
Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts New |
The new Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts lists people you know, or who have interests in common with you, and people who belong to common distribution lists and groups. |
Site Directory Enhanced |
An important new Site Directory feature is the “Scan for Broken Links” button that locates changed or deleted links to external content. |
Real-Time Presence and Communication Enhanced |
The Real-Time Presence Smart Tag icon, displayed virtually everywhere a person’s name appears in Office SharePoint Server 2007, tells you in real time whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audio conference call, instant messaging, or two-way video conversation. |
Notification Service Enhanced |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 enhances several Notification Service features: Filtering conditions can trigger more relevant alerts to users. An extensible platform sends customizable e-mail alerts to users. Users participating in a workflow automatically receive e-mail alerts without subscribing in advance to workflow notifications. Users can send content of a changed item in a SharePoint list or document library along with details of what was changed. |
LDAP Pluggable Authentication Provider New |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes an LDAP pluggable provider for authenticating users of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This is in addition to the Active Directory provider included with Windows SharePoint Services. |
User Profiles Enhanced |
User profiles are significantly enhanced with these updated features: Profile Store, Profile Synchronization, Profile Directory Import In addition to defining audiences using Active Directory–based properties, audiences can now be defined using properties imported from LOB applications such as human resources (HR) or professional services automation (PSA) solutions. User profile information is also used by the Notification Service to target alerts, by Social Networking to deduce common interests and other properties, and by the Memberships Web Part to display distribution list and group membership information. |
Profile Store Enhanced |
The Profile Store is enhanced with: Multi-valued properties bound to a taxonomy or a list of values from Office SharePoint Server 2007. Property-level security controls by person or group. Open and closed vocabularies. Per-site property extensions (federated property store). |
Profile Synchronization Enhanced |
Profile Synchronization supports the extended capabilities of the Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance. |
Profile Directory Import Enhanced |
Profile Directory Import supports the extended capabilities of the Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance. |
Audience Targeting Enhanced |
Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content can be targeted to distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences. Audiences in Office SharePoint Server 2007 benefit from the richer collections of properties available in the Profile Store. |
Mobile Device Support New |
By default, all Office SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages render on both International and North American mobile devices (including Web-enabled mobile phones) using a simplified text-only format. |