WSS 3.0 – Features

WSS 3.0 helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information they need to make more informed decisions and get the job done. Enhancements in WSS 3.0 make it easier than ever to share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.

WSS 3.0 enables organisations to:

  • Provide a single workspace for teams to coordinate schedules, organise documents, and participate in discussions—within the organization and over the extranet.
  • Easily author and manage documents, and help to ensure their integrity with enhanced features including the option to require document checkout before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous versions, and the ability to set document-specific security.
  • Help people and teams stay on task with a variety of communication features that let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, including announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards.
  • Provide creative forums for brainstorming ideas, building knowledge bases, or simply gathering information in an easy-to-edit format with new templates for implementing blogs (also known as weblogs) and wikis (Web sites that can be quickly edited by team members—no special technical knowledge required).
  • Stay productive while mobile with enhanced support for offline synchronization through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that users can use to manage document libraries, lists, calendars, contacts, tasks, and discussion boards even offline, and to synchronize changes when reconnected to the network.

Collaborative infrastructure

WSS 3.0 makes it easy for IT departments to implement a dependable, scalable collaboration infrastructure with minimal administrative time and effort. Close integration of WSS 3.0 with familiar tools for authoring, publishing, organising, and finding information, including the Microsoft Office system, helps users get up to speed quickly.

Deployment of WSS 3.0 increases control over and enhances security of your organisation’s data and information resources and reduces the dependency of business units on your IT department for site provisioning, implementation, backup, and support.

It gives IT better control over an organisation’s infrastructure with new and improved services for controlling access to information and setting policies for site creation that enable security to be set as deep down as the item level. It also empowers site managers and teams without compromising security by enabling them to initiate and control their own self-service workspaces and tasks, and manage the participation and access of others - all within parameters set by IT.

At SBS we can help IT professionals tailor or extend the WSS 3.0 foundation to create new, efficient, Web-based tools and services specific to the organisation, department, business process, or industry vertical. We can help you use WSS 3.0 to build rich, flexible, and scalable Web-based applications and Internet sites specific to the needs of your organization. We can also help you to take advantage of integration with MOSS 2007 that expands the platform services and common framework for document management to offer enterprise-wide functionality for records management, search, workflows, portals, personalised sites, and more.