Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Learn about MOSS 2007

Slowly but surely more details are emerging from a variety of different types of implementations using Microsoft's new SharePoint, "MOSS 2007." I hope you can join us in Washington, DC this June for a couple of very useful MOSS sessions based on practical field experience. First, noted SharePoint guru Shawn Shell will deliver a 3-hour pre-conference tutorial, Taking advantage of the "new" SharePoint. Then, during the conference itself, two other MOSS experts (Randy Woods and Russ Stalters) will join Shawn to tell you, Everything you wanted to know about MOSS 2007 (but were afraid to ask). Hope to see you there.

MOSS 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organisational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet and web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility and interoperability.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows organisations to:
Manage content and processes
Improve business insight
Simplify internal and external collaboration
Empower IT to make a strategic impact

For further information on MOSS, please download Microsoft's Microsoft Office SharePoint Server datasheet.

How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image: The Whole 9 Yards

Now that I've finally completed my series of posts describing how to build a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Virtual PC image for demos and development work, here is a one-stop-shopping index of all 20 posts:

Part 1: Getting Started, Installing IIS, and Installing .NET Framework 2.0

Part 2: Installing and Configuring POP3 Email

Part 3: Installing and Configuring Outlook 2007

Part 4: Installing and Configuring the .NET Framework

Part 5: Installing SQL Server 2005

Part 6: Configuring SQL Server 2005

Part 7: Installing SQL Server 2005 SP1

Part 8: Creating the MOSS Accounts

Part 9: Installing and Configuring the MOSS 2007 Application

Part 10: Setting Up Internet Explorer Web Browser Security

Part 11: Starting Services

Part 12: Creating a Shared Services Provider

Part 13: Configuring Search Settings

Part 14: Configuring Outgoing E-mail

Part 15: Creating the Portal

Part 16: Installing SharePoint Designer 2007

Part 17: Installing Office 2007 Applications

Part 18: Installing Warm-up Scripts

Part 19: Optimizing the MOSS 2007 VPC Image

Part 20: Creating a Virtual PC Differencing Disk

MOSS 2007

Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007, or “MOSS” for short, is Microsoft’s first integrated server platform that aims to provide web content management, enterprise content services, and enterprise search, as well as shared business processes and business intelligence dashboarding to the small/medium enterprise.
Like its predecessor SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003/WSS 2.0, MOSS is fundamentally dedicated to unstructured document storage, structured list storage, and group collaboration. The word “share” has not been removed from the mission concept, which goes something like “connecting people, processes, and information.”