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Full-featured portal experience right out of the
box |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 improves the out-of-box experience
with new functionality, including news; sites directory; topic
areas; personal sites (My Site); audience targeting; easy
search and browsing capabilities to help users find people,
teams, and information; and site provisioning to provide the
necessary structure to create connected collaboration spaces. |
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Performance, scalability and web-farm deployments |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 supports a distributed architecture
and optimal portal performance by offering flexible deployment
options: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can support server
farms with distributed job servers, database servers, search
and indexing functionality, and multiple Web front ends. |
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Personal sites (My sites) |
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My Sites have a private view so that users are able to store
and access personal content securely, such as unfinished documents
and customized news and links, as well as a public view that
enables users to publish content such as presentations and
finished reports to other users. |
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Integration with line-of-business applications |
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The deep integration between Microsoft BizTalk® Server and
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 means that IT managers can easily
leverage any of the more than 300 available BizTalk Server
application connectors. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 delivers
rich code samples for applications from such companies as
SAP, Siebel, and PeopleSoft. |
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Single sign-on |
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Single sign-on enables users to access secure data throughout
the enterprise with a single login. SharePoint Portal Server
securely stores account credentials when users sign on to
the portal. When portal-based applications request data from
other business applications, such as third-party enterprise
resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management
(CRM) applications, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 maps the
user's account credentials by validating against Active Directory
so that users do not have to sign on to those business applications
separately. |
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Flexibilty, personalization and customization through
Web Parts and Web Part Pages |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides additional Web Parts
and Web Part flexibility through personalization that enables
users to customize portal pages in the way that makes sense
for them, by simply dragging and dropping Web Parts onto a
page. With Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003, there is full
support for Web Parts and Web Part Pages—including adding,
editing, and customizing Web Parts, Web Part zones, and custom
Web Part pages. |
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Topics |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 includes topics that provide
intuitive navigation for finding and browsing all types of
content, from documents and people to Windows SharePoint Services-based
sites. A document or link can appear in several different
topics, and topics can include documents stored in SharePoint
Portal Server 2003 as well as links to information from additional
content sources. |
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Integration with Active Directory and Microsoft
Office |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 "crawls" Active
Directory to capture user profiles. Users can then manage
their own profile information from the portal and also create
alerts to see when other users publish or change information. |
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Search |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables users to search full
document text and properties for the keywords that they enter.
Not only can users search for information, but they can browse
and search for people, teams, and other sites on the portal. |
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Key Windows SharePoint Services-shared features |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 personal sites, team sites,
and topic areas all include full-featured Windows SharePoint
Services document libraries that support versioning, simple
routing, and approval functionality. Users can check in and
check out documents, as well as revert to previous document
versions, all from their familiar productivity applications. |
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