Overview on SharePoint 2007 Features

This post explains the SharePoint 2007 features which helps the end users to understand the benefits of MOSS.

Document Library One of the most used features of SharePoint is the document library. It allows the users to manage documents by uploading them to libraries and manage rows and columns of information which is similar to spreadsheet.

Lists another interesting feature in SharePoint 2007(MOSS) which composed of rows and columns much like spreadsheet. Different types of lists in SharePoint are Announcements, Contacts, Discussion Board, Links, Calendar, Tasks, Project Tasks, Survey and Custom Lists.

Business Needs for SharePoint 2007

A number of organizational needs made the adoption of SharePoint technologies. Some of the common business needs to use SharePoint 2007.

• Document Management  Includes document versioning, check-out and check-in features, adding metadata to documents and a better control of document access.
• Collaboration between users To allow the users to interact efficiently with each other to share information. Integration of office applications is a key component in SharePoint.