A Pre-configured Virtual MachineThis download comes as a pre-configured VHD and helps you evaluate the new features of Windows Server 2003 R2, the most productive infrastructure platform for powering connected applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the data center.
The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that's faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd. This download helps you evaluate the new features of Windows Server 2003 R2, the most productive infrastructure platform for powering connected applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the data center. Windows Server 2003 R2 simplifies branch server management, improves identity and access management, reduces storage management costs, provides a rich Web platform. For more information about Windows Server 2003 R2, please go to www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer.This is a preconfigured virtual machine contained within the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is required to run this VHD. Please refer to the system requirements section for more details.
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This download contains the Microsoft Office Groove 2007 Software Development Kit.
The Groove 2007 SDK contains documentation, WSDL, and sample code for applications that use Groove Web Services. In addition, the SDK contains developer documentation for the Groove 2007 Forms and Groove 2007 InfoPath Forms tools.
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A new whitepaper has been released which talks about regulatory compliance and how the 2007 Office System can help.
Get it from here.
Overview
This white paper showcases compliance-related features and extensibility opportunities with the 2007 Microsoft® Office system, and demonstrates how the Office system can help you meet the demands of regulatory compliance. By focusing on a few core products, including Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, Office client-side applications, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, this paper introduces built-in features of the Office system that address compliance requirements. The paper also focuses on the opportunities for developers to use expanded tools support to build customized solutions that facilitate regulatory compliance without bogging down business processes.
TOC is:
Introduction 6
An Overview of Regulatory Compliance 6
Common Compliance Requirements 8
The 2007 Microsoft Office System Products 10
Description of the Products Relevant to Compliance 10
Architecture Overview 15
Compliance Capabilities in the 2007 Microsoft Office System 16
Auditing 16
Configuring Settings for Auditing 17
Viewing Reports for Auditing 19
Extending Functionality for Auditing 20
Workflow 21
Workflow in Office SharePoint Server 2007 22
Configuring a Workflow 23
Starting a Workflow 24
Extending Workflows 24
Creating a New Workflow 25
Digital Signatures 26
Signing a Document 27
Signature Criteria 28
Extending Digital Signatures 29
Records Center 29
Extensibility 30
Content Types and Routing 31
E-mail Message Record Management 34
Classifying E-mail 35
Extending Classified E-mail 35
Setting Policies 36
37
Extending Policies 37
Holds 38
Spreadsheet Management 39
Excel Services 40
Extending Excel Services 41
Barcodes and Labeling 41
Information Rights Management in the 2007 Microsoft Office System 43
Document Information Panel 45
Extending the Document Information Panel 45
Document Inspector 46
Extending Document Inspector 47
New Office File Format 48
Manipulating the Office File Format 48
Portal Search 49
Extending Portal Search 49
Compliance Extensibility Opportunities 52
Viewing Item-Level Audit History 52
Adding Instant Messaging History to the Records Center 52
Server-Side Signing of Documents 53
Linking Information Rights Management with Classifications for Advanced E-mail Protection 53
Client-Side Auditing for Granular Tracking of Changes to Document Internals 54
Mapping of Extensibility Opportunities to Major Regulations 55
Requirements for Extensibility Opportunities to Major Regulations 56
Extensibility Scenario: Controlling stock analyst upgrade and downgrade 57
Extensibility Scenario: Spreadsheet integrity 57
Extensibility Scenario: Auditing 3rd-party events on Office documents 58
Extensibility Scenario: Reporting suspicious activity 58
Extensibility Scenario: Removing sensitive metadata from outbound documents 58
Object Models and Interfaces for Extensibility 59
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2007 60
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 61
InfoPath Forms Services 61
Microsoft Office System 2007 Client 62
Development Tools for Extending Office and Windows SharePoint Services 63
Summary 64
Appendix I: Resources 65
Resources for Compliance 65
Resources for Compliance Regulations 65
Resources for Developers 66
How-To Resources 66
Resources for Microsoft Products 66
Resources for Microsoft Technologies 67
Appendix II: References 67
References 67
William Heurdier from Alphamosaik emailed me responding to my WCM Sexy-ness request.
He has a public website - www.alphamosaik.com – which was built on MOSS 2007 using Master Pages & Custom Lists.
Rock on!
Mark pointed out this great new training – it is so good and FREE I thought I'd reblog it.
Check it out Clinic 5046: Inside Look at Building and Developing Solutions with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007
OMG!
A friend of mine, Mike Jarvis (business development extraordinare… we worked together at a .com dev shop) wanted to get back in touch with me so found my email address.
I wanted to check out his new company – www.speaktech.com – and I saw the site loading…
www.speaktech.com refreshing to www.speaktech.com/pages/home.aspx
... NO - they can't be running MOSS 2007 for their internet yet…
YES THEY ARE!
This is awesome – MOSS 2007 is starting to get out there and in places that I wasn't even aware of it being used.
Rock on MOSS 2007 and rock on speakTECH!
At the Ready Summit I promised to blog a few links.
This is one of them – it allows you to select a function in Office 2003 and then it shows you how to find that feature in Office 2007.
Check it out Word Interactive Reference / PowerPoint Interactive Reference / Excel Interactive Reference.
Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator.
These help you build & debug web parts and package solutions a lot easier than before.
There is SO MUCH DOCO out right now for Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search and Office Forms Server 2007 in the Microsoft TechNet site – check it out here (expand out the tree on the left).
This is great – all the stuff is RTM'ing now ;)
In fact the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) has been out for ages – the reason I am blogging it is so it appears on my downloads page – which basically is a link to all the cool stuff you can download.