Web Content Management

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 completely integrates Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 functionality and provides significantly enhanced Web content management functionality.

The following table describes the integrated and enhanced features.

New or Enhanced Feature	Description
Page and Site Customization (new) On MSDN	Customization enhancements for Office SharePoint Server 2007 pages and sites, including for the following: Site navigation Master page creation with minimal required functionality Page Editing toolbar components HTML field editor control Styles Asset Picker Content Query Web Part using custom properties Custom field control creation
Portal Content and Branding Customization (new) Common Page and Site Customization Tasks	Organize and render content through many configurable components, and customize the following: Data that is displayed in a Content Query Web Part Branded sites built from scratch using a master page with minimal functionality Data that is displayed in Site Navigation—a component that leverages the ASP.NET Menu control
Variations and Multi-Language Sites (new) On MSDN	Uses the Variations feature, which is especially beneficial for global organizations that maintain Web presence sites in multiple languages. Configure landing redirect logic for a site that is using Variations and configure the Variations Label Menu control.
Deploying Content Between Servers (new) On MSDN	Provides ability to use the object model to create a custom deployment job that deploys content across multiple servers, and to work with the content migration API when a direct connection between servers is not available.
Page Publishing using Document Converters (new) On MSDN	Convert documents into Web pages that can be published to a specific location and updated as needed from the source document. Users can author documents in the client application of their choice, take advantage of the features that application offers, store those documents in Office SharePoint Server 2007, and then have Office SharePoint Server 2007 generate a publishing page from the document.
Web Publishing and Deployment (enhanced) On MSDN	Support for environments where distinct authoring, staging, and production workflows are part of the formal Web publishing processes.

See Also

Concepts

Guide to SharePoint Server Features