Missing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Features

Missing Collaboration Features

·         Social Networking Web Part
Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your organization, communities, and electronic communications in Public My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests.

 

Missing Enterprise portal Features

·         My Site personal site
The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate information “for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant enhancements include social networking, privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents Aggregation Web Parts, and Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts.

·         Content syndication
Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site.

·         Privacy and security
Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view.

·         Site Directory
The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content.

·         User Profiles and the Profile Store
User Profiles store personal information for system users. Improvements include multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy from Office SharePoint Server 2007, property-level security controls by person or group, open and closed vocabularies, and per-site property extensions. Profile synchronization and directory import support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance.

·         Audience targeting
Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences.

·         Site Manager
Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.

·         Site Manager
Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.

·         Portal site templates
Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Web sites.

·         SharePoint Sites and Documents Aggregation Web Parts
List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the user has authored. The Documents Aggregation Web Part also supports more general capabilities for querying and filtering the documents stored in a collection of SharePoint sites.

·         Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts
List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups.

 

Missing Enterprise Search Features

·         Enterprise content sources
Searches over 200 file types in many enterprise content sources, including files shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out-of –the-box with the ability to extend to additional third party repositories and file types through the use of Protocol Handlers and iFilters.

·         Relevance
New and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content along with the use of relevance and ranking factors such as click distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction yield the best results for enterprise content.

·         Administration and management
Improved administration user interfaces and admin application programming interface (API) provides broad support for various search and indexing scenarios, central controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for management and reporting.

·         Indexing controls
Granular indexing controls for easy inclusion and exclusion of searched content as well as immediate result removal of any site or item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh. Improved crawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per content source; and a new browse able, filterable index log provide necessary information to optimize search.

·         Security
Administrator permissions no longer required by crawler. Access control list (ACL) and ACL-only crawls index content permissions for compliance, privacy, and protection of intellectual property (IP). Security-trimmed search results only allow users to see content they are allowed to access.

·         People search
People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.

·         Business data search
Search data residing in your line-of-business applications using the Business Data Catalog. Structured content sources and line-of-business application data and reports accessible through Web services or ADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data Catalog as search results or into a SharePoint list.

 

Missing Enterprise Content Management Features

·         Business document workflow support

Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications.

o   Approval

o   Collect Feedback

o   Collect Signatures

o   Disposition Approval

·         Document management site templates

o   The Managed Document Library site template defines large-scale document management sites.

o   The Divisional Library site template includes managed document libraries, dashboards, KPIs, and other reporting tools.

o   The Translation Library site template helps organizations manage multiple translations of a document.

·         Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM)
Helps ensure that access rights applied to Microsoft Office documents in a central library travel with the documents, even when they are downloaded from the library.

·         Document Action Bar
Describes to users what business policy or workflow governs the current document and what action they are expected to take.

·         Retention and auditing policies
Define customized information management policies to control retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings.

·         Records repository
Helps ensure the integrity of the files stored in the repository, and supports information management policies that consistently and uniformly enforce auditing, and expiration of records.

·         E-mail content as records
Provides consistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail content across Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007.

·         Legal holds
Makes it possible for records to be searched and placed on hold during litigation discovery to override the retention schedule of the records.

·         Navigation controls
Out-of-the box navigation controls that can be easily customized by end users.

·         Content authoring
Provides the ability for information workers to create content rich Web pages using a Web browser.

·         Content publishing and deployment
Built in approval workflow allows Web content to be sent for approval prior to publishing. Content deployment to production sites can be scheduled by setting up jobs and a "live" time period for each page can be specified within which that page is viewable.

·         Page Layouts
Page Layouts simplify content authoring and publishing — site administrators define a structure that guides authors through the publishing process; content contributors focus on doing their jobs rather than on the details of publishing and deployment. Flexible Page Layouts also allow designers to mix and match ASP.NET applications, Web Parts, and Authoring Templates in any configuration to create customized sites to meet specific business needs.

·         Site variations
A new feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007, sites can be linked together in a parent-child type of relationship providing a one-way orchestration framework for Web content. This feature allow organizations to deploy multi-lingual publishing sites in a much more structured and manageable environment.

·         WYSIWYG Web content editor
Extends the SharePoint user interface with additional commands and status indicators for in-context Web page authoring.

·         Slide libraries
The repository features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide the platform support for slide libraries, a feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Slide libraries enable the storage of individual slides in a SharePoint site. Office PowerPoint 2007 slide decks can be automatically created from a selection of slides in a slide library.

·         Policies, auditing, and compliance

·         Repositories in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 support the following policy, auditing, and compliance features. However, the features denoted with an asterisk are activated only upon the installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007.

o   Document retention and expiration policies

o   Highly customizable policies

o   Workflow process to define expiration

o   Access control and security

o   IRM policies applied on download to secure the functional access to documents

o   Tracking and auditing

o   Logging of all actions on sites, content, and workflows

o   Official document-of-record repositories

o   Site for storing or archiving enterprise approved content types

 

Missing Forms-driven Business Processes Features

·         Browser-based forms
Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services available in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it possible to design Web-capable forms in Office InfoPath 2007 and distribute them on corporate intranets, extranets, or the Internet. Users can fill out forms in a browser or HTML-enabled mobile device with no download or client components needed.

·         Centralized forms management and control
Office InfoPath Forms Services provide a administrator controlled centralized form solution catalog that makes it easy for users to find a form and minimize form solution downtime when upgrades are necessary. It also provides administrators with the tools to manage form solution security and accessibility.

·         “Design once” development model
Forms designers can design their forms once and deploy them for use both within the rich Office InfoPath 2007 client program and through a Web browser. Office Forms Server 2007 automatically converts the form into ASP.NET Web forms, with no additional work from the designer.

·         Form Import Wizard
The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to convert forms designed in Office Excel and Office Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form Import Wizard handles the conversion of form fields, repeating tables, rich text boxes, and other elements, dynamically generating the underlying XML structure for the new form.

·         Integrated deployment model for “no-code” forms
The Publish Wizard in Office InfoPath 2007 makes it easy to publish forms that do not have any managed code components to a Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form available as a browser-based form at the same time.

·         Compatibility Checker
The Compatibility Checker helps forms designers validate those features that need to work across the broadest range of Web browsers.

 

Missing Business Intelligence Features

·         Integrated, flexible spreadsheet publishing
Office Excel 2007 provides an integrated publishing experience that lets information workers easily choose what they want to share with others and determine how others can interact with published spreadsheets.

·         Share, manage, and control spreadsheets
Share business data broadly while maintaining control and helping to protect sensitive information. Provides access to spreadsheet data and analysis through server-calculated, interactive Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one centralized version of the truth while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents, such as financial models, by limiting access to portions of the spreadsheet and auditing their usage.

·         Web-based business intelligence using Excel Services
Excel Services empowers spreadsheet authors to easily and broadly share spreadsheets that use the new business intelligence (BI) functionality through the browser. Fully interactive, data-bound spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views can be created as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard, without requiring any development.

·         Data Connection Libraries
Data Connection Libraries are centralized SharePoint document libraries that store Office Data Connections (ODC); ODCs describe connections to external data. Centralizing Office Data Connections makes it easier to share, manage, and discover data connections that can be used by any Microsoft Office program.

·         Business Data Catalog
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) tightly integrates external data into the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user experience, providing access to external data residing within backed line-of-business applications, and enabling the display of and interaction with external data through a set of Business Data Web Parts.

·         Business Data Web Parts
Use SharePoint Business Data Web Parts for viewing lists, entities, and related information retrieved through the Business Data Catalog.

·         Business Data actions
With no custom coding, easily create actions that open Web pages, display the user interfaces of line-of-business applications, launch InfoPath forms, and perform other common tasks. Use the convenient links that appear beside business objects returned from the Business Data Catalog.

·         Integrated business intelligence dashboards
Create rich, interactive BI dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built-in Web parts such as dynamic KPIs, Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports, or a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts that can visualize information residing in back end line-of-business applications.

·         Report Center
An out-of-the-box site optimized for report access and management, including a report library, data connection library, and a dashboard template. These sites, hosted by the new Report Center, provide consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connections.

·         Key performance indicators
KPIs communicate goals and status to drive results. Using the KPI Web Part, a user can create a KPI list within a Web Part page, without writing code. The KPI Web Part can display KPIs from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, or manually entered data.

·         Filter Web Parts
Filters enable dashboards to be personalized by communicating shared parameters among Web Parts on a dashboard. The parameters passed can be automatically applied based on user profiles, SharePoint lists, the BDC, manually entered information, and so forth.

 

Missing Platform Features

·         Notification service
Extensible platform sends customizable e-mail alerts to users. Users participating in a workflow automatically receive e-mail alerts without subscribing in advance. Improved filtering conditions now trigger more relevant alerts to all users.

·         Single Sign-On (SSO)
Permits a person to enter one name and password to use a variety of back-end applications. SSO is used for integrating back-office systems and line-of-business applications that require separate credentials databases. Take advantage of single sign on to authenticate users and leverage this to pre-populate InfoPath forms.

·         Interoperability and integration

o   WSRP

·         Extensibility and programmability of search
Includes three categories of APIs for comprehensive access to Microsoft Search features:

·         Data access: protocol handlers and IFilters

·         Query object model, APIs, Web services, and reusable Search Center Web Parts

·         Administration object model and APIs

·         Excel spreadsheet developer reuse and extensibility
Spreadsheets published to SharePoint sites are accessible more securely using Web services. This means that application developers can take advantage of the logic embedded in a spreadsheet by remotely accessing spreadsheets from any platform. Business analysts can modify or update the model without affecting the business application or having to involve an application developer in the process.