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Just like me, most of you may be wondering what’s with the other software in the Microsoft Office suites. We see in the list the Office Groove, OneNote, InfoPath and others. Microsoft Office 2007 has different editions. Whichever edition you have, at the end of the day most of the abovementioned sounds a bit Latin to all of us. This is what this blog is all about, to enlighten us again what these software are for.

Of course, the usual ones we know in the likes of Word, Excel, PowerPoint are definitely serving the same purpose and just been improved to address further the needs of the industry and for collaboration with SharePoint.
Now, moving on to the not so familiar products in the suite, these are:

1.OneNote, it is like the old timer Filopax, a company that produces well known personal organizers normally made of leather with 6-ring loose binder and with lots of pockets in it in different sizes. Today, we have OneNote , it is a digital notebook which allows you to better sort your stuff and quickly find what you have written and stored in it. In my opinion, it looks very similar with the Filopax organizer which I also have back then, a very trendy stuff back at the time. In a gist, OneNote is definitely a lot better than a regular notebook.

2.Groove, it is a mini-SharePoint, that’s how I call it since Microsoft says it’s a collaboration software program. It may be a bit limited but it can do simple sharing of information, discussion, meetings to name a few. This should be enough to get you started with the idea of collaboration.  I also think this could be Microsoft’s way of getting you to move to the bigger version of it, SharePoint.

3.InfoPath, it is for creating forms. It also can be published to SharePoint. With knowledge of .NET programming, it can be extended to do more.

4.Communicator, it is use for communicating with people in different time zones thru instant messaging, voice, desktop sharing and video.

5.SharePoint Designer, this is the new FrontPage. If you want to design web pages to build a website, this one is free. It can also be extended thru .NET programming for use in a SharePoint portal.

Deciding which one best suited you, check out the matrix Microsoft has that compares side by side what’s in each edition.  To sum it up, majority of corporations, go for the Ultimate Edition.

Network+ Acronyms Reference:

ACL Access Control List

AD Active Directory

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AFP Apple File Protocol

AH Authentication Header

AM Amplitude Modulation

AMI Alternate Mark Inversion

APIPA Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AV Anti–Virus

BDC Backup Domain Controller

BERT Bit-Error Rate Test

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BNC British Naval Connector / Bayonet Niell-Concelman

BootP Boot Protocol /Bootstrap Protocol

BRI Basic Rate Interface

BSD Berkeley Software Distribution

CDFS CD-ROM File System

CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CIFI Common Internet File System

CNAME Canonical Name

CRAM-MD5 Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism – Message Digest 5

CSMA / CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance

CSMA / CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection

CSNW Client Services for NetWare

CSU Channel Service Unit

dB decibels

DC Domain Controller

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DLC Data Link Control

DNS Domain Name Service / Domain Name Server / Domain Name System

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSU Data Service Unit

EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol

EFS Encrypting File System

EMI ElectroMagnetic Interference

FAT File Allocation Table

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing

FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FM Frequency Modulation

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name / Fully Qualified Distinguished Name

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter

Gbps Giga bits per second

GPO Group Policy Object

GSNW Gateway Services for NetWare

HDLC High-Level Data Link Control

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

Hz Hertz

IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICA Independent Computer Architecture

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICS Internet Connection Sharing

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IGMP Internet Group Multicast Protocol

IIS Internet Information Server

IKE Internet Key Exchange

IMAP4 Internet Message Access Protocol version 4

IP Internet Protocol

IPSec Internet Protocol Security

IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6

IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange

IPX / SPX Internetwork Packet Exchange / Sequence Packet Exchange

IRC Internet Relay Chat

ISA Industry Standard Architecture

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISM Industrial, Scientific, and Medical

ISP Internet Service Provider

IT Information Technology

Kbps Kilobits per second

L2F Layer 2 Forwarding

L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol

LAN Local Area Network

LC Local Connector

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LED Light Emitting Diode

LLC Logical Link Control

LPD Line Printer Daemon

LPR Line Printer Remote

MAC Media Access Control / Medium Access Control

MAU Multistation Access Unit

Mbps Megabits per second

MBps Megabytes per second

MDI Media Dependent Interface

MDIX Media Dependent Interface Crossover

MIB Management Information Base

MMF MultiMode Fiber

MSAU MultiStation Access Unit

MS-CHAP Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

MT-RJ Mechanical Transfer-Registered Jack

MX Mail Exchanger

NAT Network Address Translation

NCP NetWare Core Protocol

NDS NetWare Directory Services

NetBEUI Network Basic Input / Output Extended User Interface

NetBIOS Network Basic Input / Output System

NFS Network File System

NIC Network Interface Card

NIS Network Information Service

NLM NetWare Loadable Module

nm nanometer

NNTP Network News Transport Protocol

NT New Technology

NTFS New Technology File System

NTP Network Time Protocol

OCx Optical Carrier

OS Operating Systems

OSI Open Systems Interconnect

OSPF Open Shortest Path First

OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

OU Organizational Unit

PAP Password Authentication Protocol

PC Personal Computer

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDC Primary Domain Controller

POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3

POTS Plain Old Telephone System

PPP Point-to-Point Protocol

PPPoE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet

PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PRI Primary Rate Interface

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit

QoS Quality of Service

RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks / Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RAS Remote Access Service

RDP Remote Desktop Protocol

RFI Radio Frequency Interface

RG Radio Grade

RJ Registered Jack

RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adelman

S / MIME Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

SC Standard Connector / Square Connector

SCP Secure Copy Protocol

SFF Small Form Factor

SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol

SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMB Server Message Block

SMF Single Mode Fiber

SMS Storage Management Services

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SOA Start of Authority

SOHO Small Office / Home Office

SONET Synchronous Optical Network

SPS Standby Power Supply

SPX Sequence Packet Exchange

SSH Secure Shell

SSID Service Set Identifier

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

ST Straight Tip

STP Shielded Twisted Pair

T1 T-Carrier Level 1

TA Terminal Adaptor

TCL Terminal Control Language

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCP / IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

tcsh turbo C shell

TDR Time Domain Reflectometer

TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TTL Time to Live

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UNC Universal Naming Convention

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

VPN Virtual Private Network

WAN Wide Area Network

WAP Wireless Application Protocol / Wired Access Point

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy

WINS Window Internet Name Service

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

WWW World Wide Web

XML Extensible Markup Language

Zeroconf Zero Configuration