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SharePoint Portal Server
SharePoint Portal Server is the flexible portal solution that is built on top of Windows SharePoint Services.
It lets you find, share, and publish information easily.
It provides a portal infrastructure, which can be used to buld many portals by individuals and teams within a company. This helps in better collaboration. This product is particularly suitable fro medium adn large businesses.
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.
How does it help?
A 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 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.
How does it add to Windows SharePoint Services?
SharePoint Portal Server extends the Windows SharePoint Services infrastructure to provide additional features like:
- Create a set of portals for various entities like - individual, team, department and the company.
- Search sites all across the portal or multiple sites.
- Search external data sources, applications and file shares.
- People search, yellow/ white pages
- Aggregates WSS sites across org and presents them through unified interface that simplifies sites navigation
- Displays a natural hierarchical map of WSS sites, lets users jump immediately anywhere in hierarchy
- Customised views of content based on user credentials
- Biz Talk Server integration
Features
The overview below provides high-level, feature information on SharePoint Portal Server. This page touches on features associated with scalable enterprise search, integrated document management, and customized portal solution.
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Integrated Document Management |
Customised Portal Solution |
Search Engine
Retrieve text using state of the art probabilistic ranking. The search engine also features "best bets," property searches, and auto-categorization of crawled content.
Data Access and Indexing
Crawl and search file and Web servers, Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folders, Lotus Notes servers, and remote servers for SharePoint Portal Server.
Subscriptions
Subscribe to a document, folder, category, or search query so you are notified when changes are made, in the portal and optionally, by e-mail.
Categories
Classify content under a set of customer-defined categories. This allows easy navigation to information.
Low-Latency Indexing
Support manual and scheduled crawls, as well as adaptive and incremental crawling, to ensure that your search results contain the most recent information.
Search Extensibility
Search protocol handler interfaces enable connection to custom data sources. Support custom content types through the IFilter interface.
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Office and Windows Integration
A complete set of document management functionality is accessible directly from the Microsoft Office 2000 toolbar and Microsoft Windows? Explorer. This helps users manage documents with familiar tools.
Check-in and Check-out
Enables optional enhanced Web folders so that documents can be reserved by individual users for updating.
Document Versioning
Document changes, including metadata such as keywords, are tracked and assigned different version numbers for auditing and rollback.
Document Profiling
This captures optional and required metadata about customer-defined document types.
Document Collaboration
Use the Discussions feature in Office and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents for inline, content review.
Security
Using roles built on Microsoft Windows NT? security, SharePoint Portal Server ensures that only users with appropriate access can see a given document.
Lifecycle Management
Create private drafts, review and revise, then publish, with optional approval routing.
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Digital Dashboard?based Portal
Get flexible, Web Part?based portals using digital dashboard layouts and content interfaces, using third party or your own Web Parts.
Shareable Personal Dashboards
Easily create customized dashboard sites, and share them with other users.
Web Storage System
Built-in services for building Web-based collaborative applications.
Standard Tools
Develop solutions using familiar tools like Microsoft Visual Studio?.
Standard Interfaces
Utilize common interfaces like Microsoft ActiveX? Data Objects (ADO), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV).
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