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How to buy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.
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| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Server License |
Connect people, process, and information using Office SharePoint Server 2007. This integrated information management system provides enterprise-class capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, enabling better-informed decisions, finding information and organizational expertise, and simplifying how people work together across boundaries. |
This license is required to run Office SharePoint Server 2007 in client/server mode. You should use this license with the requisite number of Client Access Licenses (CALs) appropriate for your organizational needs. |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL), Standard Edition |
This client access license allows you to access your Office SharePoint Servers to meet your information management needs. As part of this license, you receive the core capabilities of Office SharePoint Server such as managing content and business processes, enabling better-informed decisions, finding information and organizational expertise, and simplifying how people work together across boundaries. |
You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. This license is also part of the Core CAL suite and Enterprise CAL suite. |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL), Enterprise Edition |
This client access license is an additional license on top of the Office SharePoint Server CAL, Standard Edition. A customer must acquire both the Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition CALs in order to use the Enterprise Edition functionality of Office SharePoint Server.
This CAL adds rights for you to use the Line of Business data integration and search, Business Intelligence including performance management dashboard and web-based spreadsheets, and electronic forms. |
You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. This license is also part of the Enterprise CAL suite. |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites |
You may use the software only for Internet-facing websites. All content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-employees. This license has all the features of the Enterprise Edition of Office SharePoint Server. For complete information about the different features in each edition, read the Office SharePoint Server edition comparison.
This is a per server license that does not require the purchase of Client Access licenses. |
You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition), Server License |
Connect people to relevant business information with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. A security-enhanced, scalable, extensible, and manageable search solution, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search meets the core search needs of enterprises while offering the simplicity and ease of use desired by small and medium businesses; thereby helping to increase productivity and alleviate information overload. |
You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Standard Edition), Server License |
Connect people to relevant business information with Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. A security-enhanced, scalable, extensible, and manageable search solution, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search meets the core search needs of enterprises while offering the simplicity and ease of use desired by small and medium businesses; thereby helping to increase productivity and alleviate information overload.
Standard Edition is limited to indexing 500,000 documents.
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You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. |
| Microsoft Forms Server 2007, Server License |
Office Forms Server 2007 is a scalable, security-enhanced, standards-based data-gathering solution that your organization can use to extend the reach of forms-driven business processes to anyone with a Web browser. Office Forms Server works with the Microsoft Office InfoPath client for authoring your forms-driven solutions. |
You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. The functionality provided by this license is also part of the Office SharePoint Server Enterprise CAL and the Enterprise CAL suite when used with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Server License. |
| Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL) |
This client access license allows you to access your Office Forms Server 2007 to extend the reach of forms-driven business processes to anyone with a Web browser. |
You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. The functionality provided by this license is also part of the Office SharePoint Server Enterprise CAL and the Enterprise CAL suite. |
| Microsoft Forms Server 2007 for Internet sites |
You may use the software only for Internet-facing websites. All content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-employees.
This is a per server license that does not require the purchase of Client Access licenses. |
You can acquire these licenses through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. The functionality provided by this license is also part of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites license. |
See the Office SharePoint Server system requirements.
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Enabling technologies
For more details on enabling technologies, please refer to the Office SharePoint Server system requirements.
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| Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, or Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 |
Each of these 2007 Microsoft Office suites provide a comprehensive set of business productivity applications that helps your organization succeed by making it easier to more effectively manage, analyze, and share information.
By integrating with Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search, the programs contained within these suites deliver an expanded set of capabilities that make it easier for the people in your organization to deliver better results faster. |
Please see the How to buy the 2007 Microsoft Office suites page for more information on licensing options for each of the 2007 Microsoft Office suites. |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a Web site development and management program that provides you powerful tools to build, customize, and contribute to SharePoint sites using the latest Web design technologies and established standards in an IT-controlled environment.
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You can acquire licenses for Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer through Open Licensing, Select Licensing, and Enterprise Agreements. |
| Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint |
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint helps businesses protect their SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from viruses, unwanted files and inappropriate content. With a layered, multiple scan engine approach, Forefront Security for SharePoint helps stop the latest threats before they impact business and users. |
Please see the Microsoft Forefront How to buy page for more information on licensing options for Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint |
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