MOSS 2007

1. What is sharepoint 2007 or MOSS 2007 ?
A: Sharepoint is an extensibale and sacalable web - based platform consisting of tools and technologies which help to build bussiness application. Which helps us to better store, share and manage digital information in our organization.
These are sharepoint primary features:

• Web content management.
  
• Monitor key business activities.
  
• Simplify Collaboration.
  

2. Comparing MOSS 2007 and WSS.
A: WSS contains the core functionality needed for document Management and collaboration, such as document libraries and list where MOSS 2007 offers the same feature of WSS in addition to the functionality required for Enterprise content management as well as Excel and forms services, Business data catalog and Business intelligences.

3. What is the Enterprise feature?

A. Enterprise features named because they often represent the functionality that large enterprises require and demand from their collaborative applications.

• Form Services: InfoPath is a forms creation and completion application that is in an important part of the Microsoft Office system.
• Search: This connects you with the information, people, and processes you need to make informed business decisions. Users’ complaints concerning SharePoint 2003’s inability to locate information resulted in a greatly improved search engine in the 2007 release, which includes search highlighting.
• Web Content Management: With the integration of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, SharePoint now supports web content creation and publishing. Publishing features ranging from content approval workflow to page layouts and content types which means you can create and publish branded web content without knowing code. You can then host these websites on an intranet environment or an extranet so partners or clients can access information.
• Excel Services: Excel Services lets you work with important data in real time using only the browser. You can publish interactive pivot tables, charts, and spreadsheets to a large audience while protecting your formulas and calculations. Users are given “view-only” rights, which only allows them to see the browser-based version of a report.
• Business Data Catalog: Business Data catalog is newly introduced shared services which enable MOSS 2007 to surface business data from back-end server applications with minimal coding effort. It provides built-in support for displaying data from database and Web services.
• Audiences/Profiles: SharePoint 2007 can collect user profile information and store it in a centralized database so that various elements in SharePoint can access it and personalize it. Personalization targets relevant content to users based on properties of their profiles.

4. What is SSO?

A. Single Sign on (SSO) functionality enables users to authenticate only once when they access portal site based application that need to obtain information from other business applications and systems. Configuring single sign-on consists of five tasks:

1. Configuring the Microsoft Single Sign -On Services service.
2. Managing Server settings for single sign-on.
3. Managing the encryprion key.
4. Managing enterprise application definitions.
5. Managing account settings for enterprise applications definitions.

5.define Business Data Catalog?

A. Business Data catalog is newly introduced shared services which enable MOSS 2007 to surface business data from back-end server applications with minimal coding effort. It provides built-in support for displaying data from database and Web services. There are five in built BDC web part:

1. Business data web-parts.
2. Business data in links.
3. Business data actions.
4. Business data search.
5. Business data in user profiles.

6. How to Personalizing Your Portal?

A. There are three main features in MOSS 2007 personalization Model.
a. User profiles: User profile allow us to search for and connect with people in our organization based on information published about them. In MOSS 2007 we can import user profile information from : 1. Active Directory 2. LDAP Server or 3. From apllication registered in BDC.
b.Audiences : Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to target content to people according to their membership in a particular audience. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports targeting to rules-based audiences, distribution lists, and Windows SharePoint Services groups. Except for Windows SharePoint Services groups, these audiences can span one or more portal sites in a deployment.
c.My Site :My Site is a collection of Profile pages, personal sites, and personalization sites created in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 site.

7.What is content types?

A. A content type is a reusable collection of settings which enable us to manage the metadata and behaviors of a document or item type in a centralized manner.

You create a content type at the site level. This site content type acts as a template that is independent of any specific list or library. That site content type is then available on any child site. For example, if you create a site content type at the root site of a site collection, that site content type becomes available on any site in that site collection, so that you can add it to any list in the site collection.

8. Types of contents types.

A. Following are the base content types:

1. Business Intelligence Content Types
2. Document Content Types
3. Folder Content Types
4. List Content Types
5. Page Layout Content Types
6. Publishing Content Types
7. Special Content Types

9.Describe the difference between a lookup column and a choice column.

A.A choice column features a value list from which you can select that a site manager has manually entered into the column. A lookup column displays a value list based on the contents of an existing column from another list on the site.

10.Describe how you would send a report of information stored in a list to a partner outside your organization that did not have access to your SharePoint list.

A. You can export SharePoint list views to an Excel spreadsheet from the Actions menu. This means you can take information from the SharePoint site, customize it, and send it to team members or partners that do not have direct access to the SharePoint list.

11.What are the differences between a tasks list and a projects tasks list?

A. A projects tasks list is created with a Gantt chart view by default. Also, you can associate a tasks list with a workflow activity template whereas you can’t do this with a projects task.