As promised, here is Part 2 of my series “Seven New SharePoint 2007 Document Management Features”. The next new document management feature is:
Granular security with inheritance: Document libraries now support item level security with full inheritance. Security on a the Library is inherited by a Folder. The security set on the Folder is inherited by a Document.
Not providing this capability was one of the biggest criticisms of SharePoint 2003. Security could only be set on a Library and all documents had the same security as that of the Library. That is now resolved.
Additionally, SharePoint 2007 now supports a pluggable authentication model. Each authentication zone can have a pluggable, custom authentication provider in addition to the default support for Windows Basic, Digest, NTLM, Forms, and Kerberos authentication methods. The following article is rather technical but provides detailed information on this new capability: “Configuring Multiple Authentication Providers for SharePoint 2007″.
Great article on Document Management and Security here:
http://www.scanguru.com/download.php?view.7