Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Improvements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

The client components of the 2007 Office system work with and use the server components in Windows SharePoint Services. Improvements in Windows SharePoint Services have resulted in new features and functionality at the client end. Let’s start by looking at the data platform improvements.

Data Platform Improvements

One of the more common customer scenarios is a company that wants to store a large quantity of documents in a single document library and yet have the ability to quickly find and filter those documents. In addition, users want to host different document types with different schema inside the same document library and be able to sort and search against the differences in the document schemas. ...