SharePoint Online FAQs

Can I migrate from my on-premise SharePoint sites to SharePoint Online?

SharePoint migration, including SharePoint Designer’s backup and restore functionality, is not supported by Microsoft Online Services Technical Support.

There are third-party tools available to perform SharePoint site migration. You could also use a combination of creating Site, Library, and List templates for your on-premise SharePoint site, and then restore those templates to your SharePoint Online site.

Can SharePoint Online sites be available to external users?

Currently, SharePoint Online requires a user name and password to access the site. Anonymous login is not allowed. This feature is being considered for future releases of SharePoint Online.

Can I use a workflow other than the Three-state workflow?

Currently, Three-state workflow is the only workflow enabled for and supported by SharePoint Online. All other workflows are disabled by SharePoint Online and cannot be enabled. Enabling other workflows is being considered for future releases of SharePoint Online.

Where are the other “Fantastic 40” SharePoint templates?

SharePoint Online only has a few of the “Fantastic 40” templates enabled. Enabling other templates is being considered for future releases of SharePoint Online.

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Important:

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only. SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.

So please make sure you have 64-bit environment ready, before you try to use Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Download: SharePoint Server 2010 Beta

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=77c30c6c-47fc-416d-88e7-8122534b3f37#RelatedLinks

System Requirements

* Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

Software Requirements depend on configuration.

Hardware requirements:

The requirements below apply to single server with built-in database installations and server farm installations that include a single server or multiple servers in the farm.

Processor: 64-bit, dual processor, 3 GHz

RAM:
4 GB for stand-alone or evaluation installation.
8 GB for single server and multiple server farm installation for production use.

Hard Disk: 80 GB.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263202.aspx

Updated: 2009-07-09

In this article:

• Hardware and software requirements

Stand-alone installation

You can install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single computer by using either of the following methods:

• By selecting Basic.
• By selecting Advanced, and then selecting Stand-alone in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Setup.

Hardware requirements

Software requirements

Because Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the requirements that apply to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 also apply to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

• Configure the server as a Web server
• Install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
• Post-installation steps

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint

1. Collaboration The enabling technologies that allow teams to work together effectively, providing intuitive, flexible, and secure mechanisms for sharing information through the use of wikis and blogs, collaborating on and publishing documents, maintaining task lists, conducting surveys, developing and maintaining site templates customized for specific business uses, and implementing workflows.
2. Portal The facilities that provide the capabilities to personalize the user experience of an enterprise Web site, to target content to various audiences based on sets of rules, to automatically facilitate intuitive navigation through the Web site while tailoring the navigation to the individual rights of the user, to deliver comprehensive site content management and structural facilities, and more.
3. Enterprise Search The critical ability to quickly and easily locate relevant content distributed across a wide range of sites, document libraries, business application data repositories, and other sources, including files shares, various Web sites, Microsoft Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes Databases — and to find the appropriate people who can help answer questions or be involved in projects.
4. Content Management The facilities for the creation, publication, and management of content, regardless of whether that content exists in discrete documents or is published as Web pages. Content management scenarios include document management, records management, and Web content management.
5. Business Forms and Integration The ability to rapidly and effectively implement forms-based business processes, from design to publication to user access, by using standard Web browsers or a rich client application such as Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007. Also includes the ability to connect with structured systems such as databases and line-of-business applications, and the ability to access that information in a number of ways.
6. Business Intelligence The ability to deliver information critical to business objectives through a wide range of mechanisms, from server-based spreadsheets accessing business data in real time and performing sophisticated analyses to the presentation of key performance indicators (KPIs) through enterprise Web sites.

We can download SharePoint Server 2007 virtual hard disk from the Microsoft , it contains the EVALUATION copies of the following products.

• MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2003 R2 ENTERPRISE EDITION
• MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 ENTERPRISE EDITION
• SERVICE PACK 1 FOR MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005
• MICROSOFT OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 2007
• MICROSOFT OFFICE SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007
• MICROSOFT WINDOWS SHAREPOINT SERVICES 3.0
• MICROSOFT OFFICE SHAREPOINT SERVER 2007
• MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK 2.0
• MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK 3.0

more details, please see:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&displaylang=en.

The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd.

This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

This fully functional pre-configured VHD provides you a trial software will automatically expire after 30 days.
This is a preconfigured virtual machine contained within the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is required to run this VHD. Please refer to the system requirements section for more details.

In the  2009 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms report published by leading independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. MindTouch was named a strong performer against its key competitors. MindTouch is pleased to offer this report (regularly $1,749) along with several technical and educational resources free of charge.

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Enterprise Wiki Portal

MindTouch Standard is an enterprise class wiki and collaborative portal for business automation that meets the needs of workgroups and medium sized organizations. MindTouch Standard is production ready, officially supported and is the minimum requirement for using MindTouch enterprise features such as the MindTouch Desktop Productivity Tools, database adapters, CRM adapters, charting tools, full featured LDAP and Active Directory module and more (product matrix)… Moreover, this build is available under a shared source (non-GPL) license. Pricing is based on number of users and is about $7 a month per user.

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Alfresco is an enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in two flavours[2]. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, GPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially / proprietary licensed open source, open standards and enterprise scale. Its design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance. Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing webapps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and jBPM workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SharePoint_Services

The first version, called SharePoint Team Services (usually abbreviated to STS), was released at the same time as Office XP and was available as part of Microsoft FrontPage. STS could run on Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP.

Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 was marketed as an upgrade to SharePoint Team Services, but was in fact a completely redesigned application[citation needed]. SharePoint Team Services stored documents in ordinary file storage, keeping document metadata in a database. Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 on the other hand, stores both the document and the metadata in a database, and supports basic document versioning for items in Document Libraries. Service Pack 2 for WSS added support for SQL Server 2005 and the use of the .NET Framework 2.0.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 was released on November 16, 2006 as part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite and Windows Server 2008. WSS 3.0 is built using .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 Windows Workflow Foundation to add workflow capabilities to the basic suite. By the beginning of 2007 WSS 3.0 was made available to the public. Windows 2000 Server is not supported by WSS 3.0.