External Service Connections

There are three configurable options for external connections, each of which has a unique role in the SharePoint Server 2007 environment. By default, none of the services are enabled but each can be enabled individually.

Records Center

The records center is a global farm configuration setting that allows users to send documents from document libraries in all Web applications and site collections to a central official file site. For more information about configuring records management, see Chapter 9.

HTML Viewer

The HTML Viewer service enables an administrator to configure a server with IIS installed to render Microsoft Office system documents to users who are trying to view the documents but do not have the Microsoft ...

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