Summary

In this chapter, you learned that:

• q There are a large number of MS Office 2007 editions - make sure to use the right one.

• q Only these editions will have the full integration with SharePoint 2007: Office Professional Plus 2007, Office Enterprise 2007, and Office Ultimate 2007.

• q With MS Office 2000 and Office XP/2002, you will not have any integration with SharePoint 2007, although you can open and save files in document libraries.

• q With MS Office 2003, you will have a good integration with SharePoint 2007, but still there are things you cannot do, such as starting workflows, reading the Document Property Panel, and easily comparing document versions, among other things.

• q The perfect companion for SharePoint 2007 is MS Office 2007 - especially the Professional Pro, Enterprise, and Ultimate Editions.

• q MS Outlook 2007 has a lot of integration features for use with SharePoint, such as offline storage of documents, two-way synchronization of tasks, a calendar, and contact lists.

• q RSS feed is a new way of keeping track of changes in SharePoint lists and libraries - but only Outlook 2007 has this functionality built in.

• q MS Outlook 2003 and 2007, together with SharePoint 2007, are the ultimate tools for optimizing meeting procedures.

• q Use the Group Policy Templates Office12.adm and Outlk12.adm to configure Outlook and meeting workspaces from a central location.

• q MS OneNote is a fantastic tool for taking notes - It can be shared in real time with other OneNote users by storing its notebook file on the SharePoint server.

• q Use MS InfoPath to create any type of form, from the simplest to the extremely advanced that includes code and connects to external data sources. Save these forms to a SharePoint library, and you can expose their content as columns.

• q There are also a number of other Microsoft applications that directly integrate, or even rely, on SharePoint 2007.

In the next chapter, you will learn more about advanced SharePoint 2007 configurations.