1. IS NEWS MICROSOFT OFFICE SHARE POINT SERVER 2007 By: Raul Rodriguez HTM 304

2. About Microsoft Office Share Point Server 2007 Share point is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating share business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

3. What is the IT in Question? It belongs to the Microsoft Office family. In 2007 the word Portal is dropped. It is a collaborative portal application. It can be configured to return separate content for Intranet, Extranet and Internet locations

4. History of Portals Hot commodity in late 90’s After the proliferation of Web browsers in the mid-1990s, many companies tried to build or acquire a portal, to have a piece of the Internet market. The Web portal gained special attention because it was, for many users, the starting point of their Web browser.

5. How does the IT work? Virtual Communities and Creates Sites for Team Interaction. Handles E-mail Traffic. Highly Customizable. Turn Word Libraries into collaborative systems with built-in administration. Run Software in With-in Share point.

6. VIRTUAL WORK What is the most valuable business application? VIRTUAL WORK 1.Present Business-Critical information in one central location. 2.Quickly connect people with information. 3.Share business data broadly while helping to protect sensitive information. 4.Enhance customer and partner relationships. 5.Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management. 6.Simplify Web content management.

7. Standalone Installation Installation Requirements. Standalone Installation Processor – Dual processor, 3 GHz. Memory – 2 GB RAM. Hard Disk – DVD Drive, local or Network access. Display – 1024 x 768 resolution monitor. Operating System – Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1. Brower – Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.

8. What are the significant limitation of the IT? It may not be the right platform for largest enterprise 1500 people. Slow dashboard rendering. Document-approval limitations. Backup and recovery functions are raw at best.

9. Final Thought Best mix of features for the lowest price. Company with about 100 employees. Share point = $11,000. Oracle 9iAS = $50,000. IBM Web sphere = $250,000