Tools and Technologies That Work with Office

Some of the features in Microsoft® Office 2000 depend on back-end servers and technologies to perform their functions. To make deploying and maintaining installations of Office 2000 more efficient, administrators can take advantage of network systems management tools, such as Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). The data access technologies supported by Office 2000 make sharing data simpler, and programming technologies available in Office 2000 allow developers to automate and integrate tasks across applications, and to customize and extend the features of Office 2000.