Office Sharepoint Designer 2007 

General information

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. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides you with tools to automate your business processes, build efficient applications on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and tailor your SharePoint site to your needs, all in an IT-managed environment.

Benefits
Build Solutions Faster to Enhance Team Productivity and Efficiency
Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive solutions on the SharePoint platform, without having to write code.

  • Automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks with the Workflow Designer.
  • Create reporting and tracking applications using data views and forms to easily gather and aggregate data from outside your site and from SharePoint lists and document libraries on the Web site.
  • Get started fast with pre-built Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates, which are fully customizable and extensible using Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
  • Extend your solutions by building advanced interactive Microsoft ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with the same powerful activity menus and control property grid previously found only in development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Design Compelling SharePoint Sites Tailored to Your Organization’s Needs
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the professional-quality design tools you need to create great-looking SharePoint pages that are compatible with a wide range of browsers. Enjoy an intuitive design experience through a high-quality what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor, format SharePoint pages quickly using cascading style sheet (CSS) tools, and easily change the layout and format of your site through full support of ASP.NET master pages.

Site Administrators and IT Managers: Maintain Control of Your Sites
Site administrators and IT managers can control exactly how Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is used to help ensure information workers have a managed and controlled experience. Set up Contributor Settings for each user role defined in your SharePoint site, and control access to specific actions such as making changes to your master pages and CSS. Specify how pages, files, and folders can be used, quickly roll back changes across your site, and help ensure that your site is properly managed and audited for browser compatibility and Web accessibility.

For more information look on http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/programs/designer/

 

Requirements
For 2007 Microsoft Office system programs including Access, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, SharePoint Designer, Visio, and Word, you will need:

Component Requirement

  • Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (or higher) operating system required
  • 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
  • 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
  • DVD drive
  • 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
  • 2 GB free hard disk space necessary for install; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive
  • Minimum 800x600 monitor resolution; 1024x768 or higher recommended
  • Broadband connection, 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) or greater, for download and activation of products

Additional components
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with service packs, Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later required for Outlook 2007 users. To install Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you will need to first install Outlook 2007

Note: the 2007 Microsoft Office suites including Office Basic 2007, Office Home and Student 2007, Office Standard 2007, Office Small Business 2007, Office Professional 2007, Office Ultimate 2007, Office Professional Plus 2007, and Office Enterprise 2007 will have similar requirements.
Refer to the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Product Guide for details on the system requirements for the EPM Solution which includes Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Web Access, Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Web Access.

Street Date Program (Full Packaged Product) Launch date January 30th, 2007.

Availability Volume Licensing (English language): mid November
Volume Licensing (Swedish / Danish / Finnish / Norwegian language): mid-end February

Full Packaged Product: Estimated Street Date Availability – end January

Versjon Upgrade on retail:
* Upgrade from Microsoft FrontPage 2000-2002; Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003; Microsoft Works 6.0–10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000–2006 or later; Any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office suite; Any Microsoft Office XP suite