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Sharepoint Portal Overview
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| Is your company looking to increase employee productivity and share information more easily on an intranet or extranet? Web portals are a popular way to aggregate information from several different sources into one convenient place. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server provides an easy way to create Web portals with integrated document management services and search capabilities. You can establish a central point of access to all your existing key business information and applications, as well as share information across file servers, databases, public folders, Internet sites, and SharePoint Team Services-based Web sites. |
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Features at a glance:
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Windows 2000 Server |
A multipurpose operating system that provides file and print services, Microsoft Internet Information Services, Microsoft Routing and Remote Access Service, as well as additional communications features. |
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Office XP |
Functional extensions to Office XP applications that include integrated search, built-in document management, and personal portal and Web Part development. |
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Windows Explorer |
Provides search enhancement and easy navigation. |
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Document Management Services |
Check-in and check-out ensures that documents can be reserved for work by one user at a time.
Versioning tracks changes with different version numbers for auditing and rollback purposes.
Profiling provides both optional and required metadata.
Office and Windows integration helps users manage documents with familiar tools.
Collaboration using the discussions feature in Office and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents for inline, content review.
Security features ensure that only users with appropriate access can view and modify a document. |
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Search Services |
Crawls content or set of URLs for inclusion in an index.
Parse or filter documents to extract relevant metadata and content, and perform content searches.
Submit search requests from the Search page or directly from Office XP applications.
Issue searches programmatically in the form of ADO or WebDAV SQL search queries. |
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Portal Framework |
Presents content in a customizable way, to suit the needs and preferences of your group.
Allows addition of Web Parts from many other sources. |
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Web Parts |
Web Parts are customizable, reusable components used to display specific information on a Web page.
Web Parts can plug into existing back-end systems, such as Siebel or SAP, to present customized views to a desktop. Then, from a single interface, employees can access internal data, external feeds, and collaboration tools. | |
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