Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Features

With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), you can:

• Deliver your forms with a consistent user experience regardless of where they are used. Office InfoPath 2007 uses built-in controls to deliver easy-to-use forms with predictable behavior, mouse-over tips, and built-in data validation.
• Streamline your business process applications through InfoPath forms, which collect and validate the data driving your workflows.
• Collaborate using built-in workflow templates to streamline approval, review, and archiving processes. Or you can create your own custom workflows with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to build interactive collaborative applications. These applications will automatically route documents for reviews or approval, send e-mail notifications to participants, and archive documents to meet retention policy requirements.

MOSS 2007 Workflows enable you to:

• Collect important metadata defined by the Windows SharePoint Services library via the document information panel. The metadata may include information such as workflow status, content deadline, routing information, or other properties related to the documents lifecycle.
• Create a custom document information panel that contains the rich capability of an InfoPath form, including external data connections, data validation, conditional formatting, business logic, and other controls.
• Deploy document templates with advanced document management capability built directly into a document in a way that is easy and straightforward for document authors.
• Initiate a workflow with a client MS Office application - such as Microsoft Office Word 2007.