Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 Profiles

Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 Profiles

What is Windows SharePoint Service 3.0?

SharePoint 3.0 offers some key improvements over SharePoint Version 2, along with the introduction of SharePoint Designer 2007 – an exciting new web site development and management program that provides you powerful tools to build, customize, and contribute to SharePoint sites using the latest web design technologies and established standards in an IT-controlled environment.

What is SharePoint Designer 2007?

Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides you with tools to automate your business processes, build efficient applications on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and tailor your SharePoint site to your needs, all in an IT-managed environment. You can use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive solutions on the SharePoint platform, without having to write code. Key features include:

• Automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks with the Workflow Designer.
• Create reporting and tracking applications using data views and forms to easily gather and aggregate data from outside your site and from SharePoint lists and document libraries on the web site.
• Help people and teams stay on task with a variety of communication features that let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, including announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards
• Get started fast with pre-built Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates, which are fully customizable and extensible using Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
• Extend your solutions by building advanced interactive Microsoft ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with the same powerful activity menus and control property grid previously found only in development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.