Enable Enterprise features

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

This Office product will reach end of support on October 10, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see , Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

 

If you installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using the Standard license type, and are now converting your license type to the Enterprise license, you can enable and push down the Enterprise feature set to all sites in your server farm.

What do you want to do?

  • View the list of features included in each license type

  • Enable Enterprise features

  • Enable features on existing sites

View the list of features included in each license type

The following features are available with the Standard license type:

  • Collaboration

  • Enterprise content management

  • Workflow

  • My Sites

  • Profiles and personalization

  • Enterprise search

The following additional features are available with the Enterprise license type:

  • Business Data Catalog

  • Excel Services

  • Report Center

  • InfoPath Forms Services

  • KPI and Filter Web Parts

Enable Enterprise features

  1. In Central Administration, on the Operations tab, under Upgrade and Migration, click Enable Enterprise Features.

  2. On the Enable Enterprise Features page, under Use these features, click Enterprise (Requires Enterprise client license).

  3. In the Enter Product Key box, type the Enterprise Client license key.

    Important

    You cannot return to using the Standard feature set after you have enabled the Enterprise feature set. If you want to return to using only the Standard features, you must turn off all of the Enterprise features on all sites. Alternatively, you can uninstall Office SharePoint Server 2007 and reinstall and apply the Standard license type, and then create a new server farm and attach the content databases to the new farm.

Enable features on existing sites

  1. In Central Administration, on the Operations tab, under Upgrade and Migration, click Enable Features on existing sites.

  2. On the Enable Features on existing sites page, select the Enable all sites in this installation to use the following set of features check box.