Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Why SharePoint Server?

• What is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
• Which SharePoint technology is right for you?
• Learn how Office applications and SharePoint sites work together
• What's new in SharePoint Server? Read an article or step through a virtual lab
• Get a technical introduction to SharePoint Server 2007
• Software Assurance customers: Get help planning your SharePoint Server deployment
• Product information site

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Prepare to deploy

• What hardware and software do you need for SharePoint Server 2007?
• Watch this webcast about planning and deploying SharePoint Server 2007
• Design your farm's logical architecture and download technical architecture diagrams
• Plan your Web sites and determine which features you will need
• Plan an infrastructure that supports your anticipated growth (webcast), and then learn how you can impact SharePoint performance
• Determine a strategy for protecting and recovering data, including recycle bins and backups
• Provide secure external access to sites

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Design and build your SharePoint site

• Determine the best customization strategy for your Web sites
• Deploy the environments you’ll need to design, build, and test your sites
• Learn the best practices for deploying customizations
• Visit the SharePoint Server developer portal on MSDN for information about planning, coding, building, deploying, and migrating solutions for SharePoint Server

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Ensure a smooth deployment

• Plan and manage each stage of your deployment with these checklists
• Find the deployment scenario that best fits your environment
• Step through installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2007 with this virtual lab
• Learn how to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2007
• Apply latest update: Service Pack 2. Before you install SP2, read important information about SP2 in the SharePoint Team Blog.

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Manage your deployment

• Manage security and permissions: article, webcast
• Master common administrative tasks
• Automate administrative tasks by using the Stsadmin command-line tool
• Use the SharePoint Server Management Pack to monitor and maintain your farm
• Protect and recover your data by using recycle bins, versioning, and backups
• Watch video demos to help you deploy and operate SharePoint Server 2007
• Download enhanced management tools (32-bit, 64-bit) and learn how to use them
• Download the WSRP toolkit for SharePoint 2007

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Planning

• Before You Begin Resource Center
• System requirements
• Design server farms and topologies
• Design logical architecture
• Authentication Resource Center
• Security Guide (downloadable book)
• Performance and Capacity Planning Resource Center
• Backup, Recovery, and Availability Resource Center
• Globally deploying multiple farms
• Extranet Resource Center

Deployment

• Installation Resource Center
• Updates Resource Center
• Migration and Upgrade Resource Center
• Windows Server 2008 Resource Center

Operations

• Best Practices Resource Center
• Backup, Recovery, and Availability Resource Center
• Infrastructure administration
• Change passwords used for administration accounts
• Administration tools for Office SharePoint Server
• Stsadm command-line tool
• Poster: Stsadm Technical Reference
• SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

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Services infrastructure

• Plan SSP architecture
• Technical diagrams and other supplemental documentation
• Create and configure Shared Services Providers
• Back up and restore SSPs
• Manage SSPs and shared services
• Manage services on each server in a farm

Excel Services

• Plan for business intelligence
• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Excel Services environments
• Business Data Catalog administration

Forms Services

• Plan InfoPath Forms Services
• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for InfoPath Forms Services environments
• Forms administration
• Back up and restore InfoPath forms by using built-in tools

Search

• Plan search
• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments
• Best practices for Search in SharePoint Server
• Enterprise Search administration

Personalization and My Sites

• Plan for personalized content and sites
• Design My Sites architecture
• Best practices for My Sites
• Personalization Services administration
• Back up and restore My Sites by using built-in tools

Workflow

• Plan workflows
• Workflow administration

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Planning

• Integration of SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007
• Physical topology recommendations
• Physical storage recommendations
• Planning and monitoring SQL Server storage for SharePoint Server: Performance recommendations and best practices (white paper)

Operations

• Database maintenance for SharePoint Server 2007 (white paper)
• Move all databases
• Data protection and recovery for SharePoint Server (white paper)
• Back up and restore databases

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Planning

• Plan sites and features
• Implementing and governing information architecture
• Determine the information architecture of your site
• Determine sites and subsites
• Plan site navigation
• Information architecture in SharePoint Server (white paper)
• Plan for building multilingual solutions (white paper)
• Best practices for developing accessible Web sites (white paper)
• Determine business data and business intelligence needs
• Plan the end-user search experience
• Plan document libraries
• Plan content types
• Managing enterprise metadata with content types (white paper)

Operations

• Best practices for publishing portals
• Enterprise search administration
• Managing documents
• Web content management

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Planning

• Authentication Resource Center
• Governance Resource Center
• Document Management Resource Center
• Web Content Management Resource Center
• Technical diagrams and other supplemental documentation
• Site and solution planning
• Determine the information architecture of your site
• Design server farms and topologies
• Design logical architecture
• Extranet Resource Center
• Scenarios
• Feature roadmap pages

Deployment

• Deploy customizations

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Planning

• Plan records management
• Design the Records Center site
• Records Management Guide (downloadable book)
• SharePoint Server 2007 Records Management (white paper)

Operations

• Create a site to manage records
• Configuring an active document site for records management
• Configuring an Exchange Server 2007 e-mail server to send records to a Records Center site
• Monitoring a Records Center site

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• SharePoint Server Developer Center on MSDN
• Ramp Up: SharePoint for developers track
• WSRP toolkit for SharePoint 2007

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See the site management documentation on Office Online.

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