Sharepoint and Infopath

[Chris]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I've googled this to death and have read a bunch of articles and am still
not sure what I would need.

My System:
Windows 2003 SBS, Standard
WSS 2.0 pre-installed
WSS 3.0 side-by-side
Office 2000 Professional (yes, yuk - but really can't convience a small
business to waste the money for 40 license of this - for what they use it for)
Infopath 2007 (tiral at the moment)


Desired Outcome:
Create an intranet that I can share documents, provide a company wide
calendar (no integration I know). I also wish to have nice forms that can be
filled out and submitted without having to learn C# and program ASP... maybe
in the future.

If infopath 2007 is the key to this - what do I need to add to my SBS 2003
server to allow uses to use infopathc created sites in a web-based
environment. Does this also mean that all machines need infopath?

Chris

 

[Gavin McKay]

Hi Chris,

It *might* mean your users need InfoPath, depending on cost I think... to
run InfoPath Forms Services you need to have either Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007 with Enterprise licences, or purchase InfoPath Forms
Server as a separate product (more info here:
http://www.infopathkb.com/Knowledge...re when installing InfoPath Forms Server.aspx)

So, as you have SharePoint 2003, you need to either:
a) upgrade to SharePoint 2007 with Enterprise licences; or
b) install InfoPath 2007 client on PCs that are going to need it; or
c) install a separate instance of InfoPath Forms Server somewhere, and link
to the forms you build (you could use your existing WSS 3.0 instance for
this, or create a new one).

You need at least one Infopath client to design the forms.

HTH

Gavin.

 

[Chris]

Thank you Gavin.

Now that I realize that we are looking a significant costs (Office 2007
purchase, MOSS 2007 ) to really make use of this functionality, I will
examine other alternatives.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Gavin McKay]

Hi Chris,

Your welcome. SharePoint does come with a Survey component built-in. If
you just want something basic, that might do the trick.

Regards,

Gavin.