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WSS Features

Connect Users Inside and Outside the Organization

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

People and Groups
The People and Groups list provides a unified place to find,
communicate with, and manage people and their
permissions. People Picker control provides a consistent user
experience throughout the site for selecting people or groups.

Tree View and Breadcrumbs
New user interface (UI) elements help users identify where
they are within a SharePoint site.

Presence Awareness
Helps identify when team members are online.

Extranet Mode for External Access
New capabilities include better support for third-party
authentication and trimmed UI to eliminate multiple
authentication dialog boxes.

Integration with Microsoft Office System Programs
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 integration with 2007
Microsoft Office system programs has been dramatically
enhanced, including offline support (Microsoft Office
Access, Microsoft Office Outlook®) and content type support
(Office Excel, Office PowerPoint, Office Word).

Two-Way Synchronization with Office Groove
Workspaces
External users, such as partners and customers, can more
easily participate in discussions and document
collaboration, even across firewalls.

Create, Capture, and Share Community Knowledge

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Broadcast Information with Blogs
New features include posting via the Web, e-mail, or directly from Microsoft Office Word 2007; archive views; and Really
Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds.

Capture Community Knowledge with Wikis
Wikis are great tools to capture knowledge. Based on a “group editing” model, wikis encourage everyone to contribute. Wikis
can be used as forums to brainstorm ideas, manage knowledge bases, create designs or instruction guides, or simply gather
information in an easy-to-edit format. WYSIWYG and rich-text formatting enhance the editing experience.

Manage Document Metadata with Content Types
Content types enable documents with different metadata attributes to be stored in the same library. These attributes can be
accessed and managed from Windows SharePoint Services as well as 2007 Microsoft Office system programs, such as Word,
Microsoft Office Excel®, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint®.

Gantt Chart View
Task, issue, and project issue list data can now be viewed graphically, giving team members an at-a-glance indicator of a
project’s current status.

Predefined Workspaces
Teams can share documents, manage schedules, and stay connected.

Additional Workspace Types
Meeting workspaces
Issue tracking
Project tracking
Blogs/wikis

Create Surveys, Discussions, and Links
Take advantage of these collaboration features to connect with team members, partners, and customers. Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0 adds new survey features including conditional branching and page breaks.

Calendars
New calendar views and recurring events added in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Keep Teams in Sync

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Continue Working While on the Road Through Outlook 2007 Offline Support
Document libraries can now be taken offline into Office Outlook 2007 folders. Changes can be posted back to the
SharePoint library by re-syncing when a network connection is available.

Syndicate List Data with RSS
RSS feeds are automatically generated for any SharePoint list, enabling subscribers to keep up-to-date.

Mobile Access
View and update SharePoint task lists, blogs, and other information directly from any Windows Mobile®, WAP, cHTML, or
XHTML-enabled device.

E-Mail Updates
Update SharePoint list data directly via e-mail.

Distribution Lists
To help keep team members in the loop, an Active Directory® directory service distribution list can be generated
automatically during the SharePoint site creation process.

Stay on Top of New Information with Alerts and Event Notification
New capabilities in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 include alert filtering, custom formatting, and automatic delivery of
task notifications.

Help Protect Critical Information Resources

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Two-Stage Recycle Bin
Helps ensure that critical information isn’t deleted accidentally and can be restored by the user or administrator.

Folder and Item-Level Access Control
Access control has now been extended down to the individual folder or item level.

Rights-Trimmed User Interface
Users can see only the features that they have the rights to use.

Policy, Audit, and Compliance Features in Repositories
Including applying information rights management policies on download, tracking and auditing, and logging of all actions
on sites, content, and workflows.

Centralized Administration
Administration functions are now organized within a single location.

Manage Content with Check-in/Check-out Version Control
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 now supports major and minor version numbering and optional required check-out before
editing.

Delegated Administration
Delegated administration rights can now be centrally managed and controlled.

Extend the Platform with New Capabilities

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Large List Support
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has added capabilities, including index columns and increased column limits, to
improve performance on large lists.

Features Assist Administrators in Deploying New Capabilities
Customizations to SharePoint sites can be organized into packages called Features for migrating between sites and servers.
Administrators can selectively enable or disable Features to customize a site.

Master Pages
Page layout and style elements are now stored in master page definitions. Each site has a master page gallery that the site
owner can use to customize the look of all the pages on the site.

Workflow
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 enables customers and partners to implement a wide range of workflow-enabled
applications, including the ability to:

• Create workflows using development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio® and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
2007.
• Associate workflows with content types, lists, or libraries.
• Initiate workflows automatically whenever items are added or modified, or initiate manually from the Action menu.
• Receive notification when a workflow requires interaction by the user.

Customize Sites with Web Parts
Simplified UI in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for browsing, selecting, and adding Web Parts to a Web Part page.

ASP.NET Framework
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been upgraded to use the ASP.NET 2.0 framework for added scalability and
reliability.

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