Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Integrating with 2007 Microsoft Office System Clients

To better integrate your users’ activities with SharePoint into their desktop environment, you can customize the Open and Save dialog boxes in 2007 Microsoft Office system to point to document libraries on the server. Doing so adds sites to the My Places bar next to the Open and Save dialog boxes so that users can easily select locations without having to enter URLs to SharePoint sites or go to the site to upload documents.

You make new site locations available to users through a SharePoint Server 2007 Web service that provides a list of sites targeted to a specific set of users based on their roles or site membership. Applications in 2007 Microsoft Office system can automatically discover the ...