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Several additional SharePoint products go beyond MOSS 2007:

 MOSS 2007 for Search Standard Edition: This server license offers

small- to medium-sized businesses all the features of Office SharePoint

Server Search. The number of indexed documents is limited to 500,000.

 MOSS 2007 for Search Enterprise Edition: This server has no limit to

the number of documents that can be indexed with this edition.

 MOSS 2007 for Internet Sites: This server license entitles you to use

MOSS 2007 for Internet-facing Web sites that are accessed by non-

employees. No separate CALs are required.

In addition to Windows Server 2003, you may need to implement the following:

 Microsoft SQL Server: All SharePoint content is stored in a back-end

database. WSS installs with an internal database; however, you likely

want to use SQL Server 2000 with service pack 4 or higher or SQL Server

2005 with service pack 1 or higher.

 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server: To ensure

that remote users are accessing SharePoint in the most secure fashion,

implement ISA Server or a similar product. ISA Server has automatic

configuration tools for protecting SharePoint.

 Microsoft ForeFront Security for SharePoint: ForeFront protects your

SharePoint server from malware, viruses, and enables compliance with

content policies, such as prohibiting the use of profanity in documents

saved to document libraries. If you choose not to use ForeFront, you

need some kind of anti-virus solution.

 Microsoft Exchange Server: Microsoft’s premiere e-mail and collabora-

tion platform integrates with SharePoint search. Although Exchange and

SharePoint play nicely together, you can use any e-mail server to send

e-mail to SharePoint.

 Office Live Communications Server: Enables presence information that

lets users know who’s online and instant messaging in SharePoint with

Communications Server.

 Office 2007 Groove Server: Access SharePoint resources during real-

time collaboration sessions with Groove Server.

Obviously, Microsoft wants you to run out and upgrade all your desktops to

Office 2007. And while you’re at it, you might as well install Vista, too. The

truth of the matter is that, although your users will certainly have the best

experience with Office 2007, you can work just fine with Office 2003. You can

use previous versions of Office and even non-Office applications with

SharePoint. See Chapter 9.

To customize SharePoint, you need either SharePoint Designer 2007 or Visual

Studio 2005.

Part I: Setting Up SharePoint

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