On April 1, 2009, Microsoft announced a major step in promoting for SharePoint custom software development effor. As it turned out, they were dead serious, and SharePoint Designer 2007 is really available for free download. This move, welcomed by the SharePoint development community, was in fact a long expected one: SharePoint Designer has always been perceived as part and parcel of the SharePoint platform rather than as a single entity since it is indispensable to the concept underlying SharePoint, which is easily creating extensions. It should be noted that future SharePoint Designer versions will be similarly available as free downloads, and those who have Software Assurance will acquire upgrade rights to Expression Web. We’ll see what fruit it brings, and in the meantime it would be but sensible to get down to the totally undemoctatic activety of preventing crowds SharePoint users craving creative changes from meddling with the normal SharePoint functioning. Those who haven’t yet installed the Designer might want to visit http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/FX100487631033.aspx.
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SharePoint advantages
Any developing organization faces the need of continuously creating and updating web content. Previously this process involved coordinating the work of web developers and system administrators. As a result, maintaining a growing number of web pages appeared to be a real challenge since it was hugely time-consuming and consequently costly. Yet with the emergence of colloborative intranet platforms such a routine has become obsolete.
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) provide a comprehensive platform for creating and managing intranet solutions, i.e. establishing a framework for intra-company collaboration processes, workflow, content and document management. SharePoint products allow users to create and modify web content without having to refer to web development as such.
At the outset, it is important to be aware of the underlying distinction between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Both are Microsoft Office products, yet WSS was created as part of Windows Server 2003 and is consequently not to be licensed separately (which makes using WSS particularly attractive), whereas MOSS 2007 is an independent product which appears to be a superstructure to WSS, so to speak. Another related product is Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer – a specialized tool to customize MOSS capabilities without having to deploy code on the server.
A significant SharePoint advantage is its integration with Microsoft Office 2007 customer products. MOSS 2007 includes a number of pre-set page templates for collaboration, personalization, search, content management, business intelligence and business process management purposes. Using a collobarative intranet portal gives users more control over content and enables them to coordinate their efforts, communicate and search for the necessary people and data most efficiently. SharePoint also offers web 2.0 features – blogs and wikis in particular, which are used to share expertise, get feedback and aggregate knowledge. Additionally, it is possible to expand SharePoint server functionality by means of integrating additional web parts which would best suit the needs of a particular business (e.g. a media player, a customizable calendar, etc.). This is particularly important since out-of-the-box parts are often discarded as being too basic.
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) provide a comprehensive platform for creating and managing intranet solutions, i.e. establishing a framework for intra-company collaboration processes, workflow, content and document management. SharePoint products allow users to create and modify web content without having to refer to web development as such.
At the outset, it is important to be aware of the underlying distinction between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Both are Microsoft Office products, yet WSS was created as part of Windows Server 2003 and is consequently not to be licensed separately (which makes using WSS particularly attractive), whereas MOSS 2007 is an independent product which appears to be a superstructure to WSS, so to speak. Another related product is Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer – a specialized tool to customize MOSS capabilities without having to deploy code on the server.
A significant SharePoint advantage is its integration with Microsoft Office 2007 customer products. MOSS 2007 includes a number of pre-set page templates for collaboration, personalization, search, content management, business intelligence and business process management purposes. Using a collobarative intranet portal gives users more control over content and enables them to coordinate their efforts, communicate and search for the necessary people and data most efficiently. SharePoint also offers web 2.0 features – blogs and wikis in particular, which are used to share expertise, get feedback and aggregate knowledge. Additionally, it is possible to expand SharePoint server functionality by means of integrating additional web parts which would best suit the needs of a particular business (e.g. a media player, a customizable calendar, etc.). This is particularly important since out-of-the-box parts are often discarded as being too basic.
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