New Enterprise Content management functionality in Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows our client’s staff to centrally control access rights, expiration, and retention of documents, making it easier to manage and audit their proposals throughout the lifecycle.

In our client’s, we are setting up Document Library templates with metadata (categories and keywords) for the Department’s MOSS implementation, and have created Content Types with out-of-the-box MOSS Workflows attached to them, and we are designing a Records Management solution. Our SharePoint team created standard branding through Master Page Templates, Page Layouts, Themes and Cascading Style Sheets for all new State Department top-level site requests at the Site Collection level, and have enabled the Publishing infrastructure features. For the page templates within the sites, we have customized the page layouts and have added field controls to help mark specific places where Site Owners can modify content on a page.

For our client’s, we exposed SharePoint’s document-management capabilities through a simple, web-based application that provides all document management and collaboration capabilities without forcing the end-user to necessarily understand the details of the document tree. In this manner, documents could be retrieved, updated and managed via an independent application interface or through SharePoint’s document-management interface.