Each day this week, I will be providing new prodcasts on the various aspects of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). Since so much is changing in the new release, I thought it might make sense to start with an overview of MOSS 2007. To do that, I went straight to the source...Tom Rizzo. Many of you may know Tom from his previous work on the Exchange, SQL or BizTalk teams. He now heads up the Office Server division of Microsoft, where he focuses on the comprehensive offerings on SharePoint.
In this prodcast, Tom outlines the 6 major investment areas for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. If you haven't seen the "SharePoint pie" that Tom refers to, this screenshot may help give a better picture of where Microsoft is enhancing SharePoint Server 2007. Tom details new enhancements in the Collaboration area, like blogs, wikis and RSS support. HE also highlights major improvements to the Portal aspects of SharePoint, such as improved MySites, social networking, and customization options. On the Search front, Tom mentions the ability to use MOSS 2007 to search back-end Line of Business applications and announced that we will be offering a new product that JUST DOES Search, called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search.
Tom spends the second half of the discussion talking about the NEW areas for SharePoint, such as enterprise content management, business intelligence, and rich business forms via Infopath Forms Services.
If you want to get a good overview of where SharePoint Server is going, listen to Tom's prodcast...and then stay tuned for further drilldown on SharePoint Server 2007 every day this week.
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For more information on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, please visit the Microsoft website.