Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 for Office 2007 Users

Chapter 11. SharePoint Add-ins

In this chapter, you will look at some of the add-in software available to enhance your working with Microsoft SharePoint — both Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) version 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. While SharePoint is a huge program capable of many things, there will come a time when out of the box it does not do what you need. When that is the case third-party add-ins to SharePoint can really help out. In this chapter, both commercial products and free software are discussed. Please note that discussion of these solutions does not equate to recommendation or endorsement, nor does it verify their fitness for a particular purpose; it merely points out their availability. Some of the software I have personally used in my own installation of MOSS 2007 and others I have not. However, in every case I have installed and tested the add-in using either a free version, a full commercial version, or a test version. I have no relationship with any of the companies mentioned in this chapter.

All of the software discussed will be installed on Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Server running in a virtual machine. Because of the complexity of some of the features discussed, installation steps will not be tackled. However, for Web Parts that are within the scope of a SharePoint user, this chapter will discuss how they are installed and configured. For all the Web Parts and features, full installation instructions are ...