A new whitepaper has been released which talks about regulatory compliance and how the 2007 Office System can help.
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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
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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
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