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The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 team has been had at work publishing content to help clients with their deployments. The following is a listing of articles published over the past 1 ½ months.

• Plan e-mail message records retention This article describes planning tasks related to retaining e-mail message records by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, with emphasis on using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Office SharePoint Server 2007 to manage message classification, retention, and expiration.
• White papers: Excel Services step-by-step guides These 10 step-by-step guides help you understand core Excel Services functionality. Use these guides to learn how to configure Excel Services and build fully functional PivotTable reports, charts, and a variety of other reports.
• Deploy in a simple server farm (Office SharePoint Server) and Determine hardware and software requirements (Office SharePoint Server) These articles are republished with the following note: "Office SharePoint Server 2007 requires Active Directory directory services for farm deployments. Therefore Office SharePoint Server 2007 cannot be installed in a farm on a Windows NT 4.0 domain." These updates do not reflect any change in product functionality.
• Downloadable books for Office SharePoint Server 2007 You can download and print new versions of the downloadable books for the Planning, Deployment, and Upgrade sections of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 technical library.
• Extranet hardening tool Based on the back-to-back perimeter topology, this tool articulates the port requirements for each of the computers running Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and each of the routers or firewalls. This tool is an editable Microsoft Office Visio file that you can revise for your environment. Use this tool with the following article: Plan security hardening for extranet environments. Let us know if you would like to see additional planning tools for other supported extranet topologies.
• Upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Use the steps in this article to make the switch from hosting collaboration sites based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to a hosting full published intranet or Internet environment based on Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Nine new reference topics for operations in the Stsadm command-line tool The operations Backup: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) and Restore: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) have been modified for Office SharePoint Server 2007 so you can use them to back up and restore databases, Web applications, and server farms, in addition to sites. The following operations are new for Office SharePoint Server 2007: Backuphistory: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server), Export: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server), Import: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server), Preparetomove: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server), Registerwsswriter: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server), Sync: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server), and Unregisterwsswriter: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server).
• Design logical architecture for collaboration sites Use this article to decide how to incorporate collaboration sites into your overall intranet solution. Understand the design recommendations for collaboration sites, estimate the number of site collections you can support and the number of content databases you need, and plan settings for managing your collaboration site collections.
• Configure incoming e-mail settings (Office SharePoint Server) This article describes tasks for configuring incoming e-mail in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for e-mail enabled document libraries. Tasks include installing and configuring SMTP, configuring permissions to the e-mail drop folder, and configuring Microsoft Active Directory directory services.
• Configure outgoing e-mail settings (Office SharePoint Server) and Configure outgoing e-mail settings for a specific Web application (Office SharePoint Server) These articles describes tasks for configuring outgoing e-mail settings, including the default settings for an entire site collection and settings for specific Web applications. Tasks include selecting and configuring an outgoing SMTP server and configuring the e-mail address and character encoding for outgoing e-mail.
• Design extranet farm topology (Office SharePoint Server) This article discusses specific extranet topologies that have been tested with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The topologies that are discussed in this article can help you to understand the options that are available with Office SharePoint Server 2007, including requirements and tradeoffs.
• Enable access for end users (Office SharePoint Server) After you create your site collection and populate it with content, you are ready to grant access to end users. This article helps you complete the deployment process by configuring administrative and user permissions for a site collection.
• Design Records Center architecture This article provides recommendations on configuring the logical components of a records management solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 and provides guidance on configuring key features of a records management solution.
• Design records management topology This article describes the topological considerations in planning one or more Office SharePoint Server server farms for records management.

In addition to these great postings there are several more on their way including:

• Twenty-four new reference topics for operations in the Stsadm command-line tool: The operations addtemplate, addwppack, deletetemplate, deletewppack, enumtemplates, enumwppacks have been modified for Office SharePoint Server 2007 so you can use them to deploy a feature or solution. The following operations are new for Office SharePoint Server 2007: Activatefeature, Addsolution, Copyappbincontent, Deactivatefeature, Deletesolution, Deploysolution, Deploywppack, Displaysolution, Enumdeployments, Enumsolutions, Installfeature, Removesolutiondeploymentlock, Retractsolution, Retractwppack, Scanforfeatures, Syncsolution, Uninstallfeature, and Upgradesolution.
• Design Records Center architecture: This article provides recommendations on configuring the logical components of a records management solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 and provides guidance on configuring key features of a records management solution.
• Plan records management topology: This article describes the topological considerations in planning one or more Office SharePoint Server server farms for records management.
• Logical architecture components: This article lists the components that make up a logical architecture design, and it provides recommendations for addressing design goals, including isolation, scale, and governance.
• Change passwords: This article describes which services, Web applications, SQL Logins, and other items you need to update after a password change.

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