Product Overview
Microsoft
SharePoint™ Portal Server is the flexible portal solution that lets you
find, share, and publish information easily. With SharePoint Portal
Server, you are able to utilize existing information effectively, and to
capture information in new ways that make sense for your business. In
addition, you can rapidly deploy an out-of-the-box portal site and
easily use Web-Parts technology to customize a Web-based view of your
organization.
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Scalable
Enterprise Search
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Locating information in any organization can be challenging. In
addition, wading through the different forms, file formats, and
storage locations that information requires (documents on file
servers, HTML pages on Web servers, or e-mail on messaging servers),
and finding what you need when you need it, can be difficult. People
need a consistent place to access needed information—and in a
structured way that makes sense. Intranet portals have become the
place where such information is aggregated, organized, and
searchable.
With SharePoint Portal Server, you have the power of Microsoft's
robust search technologies to create an intranet site that lets you
easily access key content from a broader set of enterprise
information. In addition to having one comprehensive place in the
portal to search, you can also set the portal to have information
come to you with information subscription—directly delivering new
and changed content notifications.
Some of the features to explore in SharePoint Portal Server are
Subscriptions, Category Browsing, Best Bets in Search results, and
extensibility using third-party, or your own, digital dashboard Web
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Integrated
Document Management
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Everyone works with documents, but not everyone has the ability to
use technology to structure how they work with their colleagues on
these documents. The process from document creation through intranet
publishing can be a string of disjointed actions, unconnected with
business processes. SharePoint Portal Server includes features like
document locking, versioning, and publishing at their fingertips and
makes these features accessible to the average user. It delivers
easy-to-use, document-management features that are integrated with
the tools and applications that are used to create and manage
documents, with Microsoft Windows® Explorer
and Microsoft Office 2000 applications, like Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint®.
Using SharePoint Portal Server, you can also save and check
documents into the document store, capturing business-relevant
metadata in Document Profile forms. You can also tailor forms to
your organization. Tracking changes though multiple drafts as a
document is edited, reviewed, and approved, is accomplished using
integrated approval routing. This occurs prior to publishing for
public viewing on the intranet dashboard site. You can also roll
back to a previous version of a document. Look for features like
Document Collaboration, Profiling, Lifecycle Management, and
Web-based document management through a browser. |
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Customized Portal
Solution
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portal needs to be easy to set up, and for maximum benefit needs to
be tailored to an organization's specific needs. With SharePoint
Portal Server, you have the ability to quickly deploy an
out-of-the-box total portal solution that facilitates finding,
creating, and sharing all of your mission-critical data from a
browser-based interface. And because the SharePoint Portal is
comprised fully of Web Parts, it can be easily customized for your
business needs. With Web Part technology, you can also customize
this interface, managing common resources, such as your contacts,
calendars, and messages.
Customers can also extend SharePoint Portal Server and add
additional Web application functionality. SharePoint Portal Server
is designed around industry and Internet standards, such as OLE DB,
Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO),
Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Microsoft Web Distributed
Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), making it easy for developers
familiar with these standards. Due to this support of standards, the
use of tools like Microsoft Visual Studio®
allows you to integrate Active Server Pages (ASP) functionality to
the portal. |
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