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Issue Tracking
The Issue Tracking list template has been updated to use the
enhanced versioning and version-history storage features of
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. |
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Real-time presence and communication
The enhanced real-time presence smart tag icon, displayed
virtually everywhere a person’s name appears in the system,
tells users whether a person is online and available for a
telephone or audio conference call, instant messaging, or
two-way video conversation. |
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Social Networking Web Part
Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about
your organization, communities, and electronic communications in
Public My Site pages to help establish connections between
colleagues with common interests. |
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Standard site templates
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes the following standard
collaboration site templates:
- Team site
- Document workspace
- Blank site
- Blog
- Wiki
- Meeting workspaces (five workspace types)
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Wikis
A wiki is a new site template in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
that makes it easy to create, edit, link, and restore an
individual Web page. Wikis can be used as creative forums to
brainstorm ideas, manage knowledge bases, create designs as well
as instruction guides or simply gather information in an
easy-to-edit format. Wikis are easy to create, modify, and
annotate in addition to tracking contributions and changes. Key
features include:
- Fast and easy page creation
- Easy and automatic linking
- Version differences
- What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG)
Web page editing
Wikis leverage existing SharePoint
functionality including search, navigation, alerts, and custom
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Blogs
Blogs provide a publishing-oriented experience for a single user
or a team. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a site
template that supports:
- Article posting
- Reader comments
- Archive views
- RSS feed generation
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People and Groups lists
People and Groups offer a unified place to find, communicate
with, and manage people and their permissions, including support
for custom fields such as Department, “Office #” and Area of
Focus; in addition to the new Person field type. The Person
field type creates rich displays of lists of people including
support for a People Picker for browsing a list of users. Member
Group provides:
- Re-use of groups across sites
- Distribution list for the members of the
site
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Calendars
Calendars have been enhanced with richer calendar views,
expanded support for recurring events, and all-day events. |
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E-mail integration
Document libraries, discussion boards, calendars, and
announcements can be enabled to receive new postings via e-mail.
In addition, extensible support is provided for custom e-mail
handlers in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
Similar to the functionality provided by public folders in
Microsoft Exchange Server, e-mail enabled discussion boards
support:
- A highly scalable, topic-based
architecture
- New “super rich-text” field type
- Unified experience for both e-mail and
Web-based discussions
- One-step creation of Active Directory
directory service distribution lists as part of the site
creation process
- Unified SharePoint group and Active
Directory management functions
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Task coordination
The new Project Tasks list template provides lightweight task
management functionality including Gantt charts for
visualization of task relationships and status. |
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Surveys
Surveys now include conditional branching as well as support for
inserting page breaks in long surveys such as annual employee
satisfaction or and customer surveys. |
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Document collaboration
Improvements to SharePoint document libraries include:
Similar to the functionality provided by public folders in
Microsoft Exchange Server, e-mail enabled discussion boards
support:
- Checking out documents locally
- Offline document library support in
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
- Major and minor version numbering and
tracking
- Support for multiple content types
- Policy, auditing, and workflow
- Tree view support
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