SharePoint
(TM)
Technologies
The SharePoint technologies from Microsoft provide groups
large and small with the ability to work together to plan
events and projects, share information, and collaborate on
documents across an intranet, extranet, or the Internet.
They offer features such as a Web-based interface, document
management in a group setting, search, e-mail notification
(subscription), threaded Web discussions, and a roles-based
security model. Currently, there are two SharePoint
technologies available:
- For ad hoc collaboration, such as a team coming
together to plan an event,
SharePoint Team Services provides a team Web
site that runs on Internet Information Services and SQL
Server.
- For creating a structured work environment that makes
it easy to find, share, and publish information,
SharePoint Portal Server
provides a portal solution that is built on top of the Web
Storage System and a digital dashboard framework.
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SharePoint Team Services
(STS) features interactive
collaboration space where people create content and track work.
The scope is about workgroups or departments communicating
internally and for other people to see. It is about teams
collaborating to produce information, hence the name Team
Services.
- Team collaborative Web sites
- Easy document sharing and team organization
- Available for intranets and for extranets via ISPs
- Customize sites using Microsoft FrontPage
SharePoint Portal Server
(SPS) features search and dashboards
where people find information they need in their work. The scope
is searching across many groups and departments for information.
Hence the name, Portal Server. SharePoint Portal Server can
search across and return results from many SharePoint Team
Services site document libraries. You cannot search list data.
- Departmental/enterprise information portals
- Enterprise search
- Rich document management functionality
- Customized with Web Parts using Microsoft Digital
Dashboard technology
- Based on Web Storage System for custom collaboration
solutions
- Extensible with Microsoft Visual Studio and common
programming interfaces such as OLEDB, ActiveX Data Objects
(ADO), and Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
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