- Windows SharePoint Services takes file
sharing to a new level.
Instead of just dumping files into directories,
Windows SharePoint Services supplies Web sites
with document storage and retrieval with check-in
and check-out functionality, version history,
custom metadata, and flexible, customizable
views. Users can find and share data, with the
added assurance that data will not be lost.
- You can share many kinds of information.
SharePoint sites store event calendars, contacts,
Web links, discussions, issues lists, announcements,
and much more. By using Windows SharePoint Services,
you can create smart places that help your users
share information and get work done, not just
a place to save files.
- Users get the authority, flexibility,
and customization they need.
You can grant users the ability to create sites,
allow them to control site membership, monitor
site usage directly, and moderate content submissions.
Users can even create site templates and share
them with one another, reusing customized, proven
site solutions.
- IT gets the management tools it needs.
Despite the authority delegated to users, Windows
SharePoint Services also enables you to track
which sites are created, who owns them, how
long a site has gone unused, and so on. You
can enforce quotas for sites, users, and storage;
block users from adding specific file types
to sites; and automatically delete sites that
are unused for long periods of time.
- Windows SharePoint Services scales to
enterprise deployments.
You can deploy Windows SharePoint Services in
server farms that support tens of thousands
of sites and can handle the typical load of
hundreds of thousands of users. Windows SharePoint
Services supports load balancing for Web servers
and server clustering technology for all data—including
configuration, documents, and list data.
- If you want to start small, Windows SharePoint
Services runs on a single computer.
Despite the fact that it was engineered to scale
to large enterprise deployments, Windows SharePoint
Services runs well on deployments for small
business, departmental, or pilot environments.
- You can enhance your SharePoint sites
using Web Parts.
Site owners and users can add the Web Parts
you provide to their site pages, adding new
features to the sites they already use. ASP.NET
developers can write Web Parts to provide data
access, Web services, and many other applications
and content to SharePoint sites.
- You can manage Windows SharePoint Services
the way you want.
You can manage and configure Windows SharePoint
Services right out of the box by using a Web
browser or command-line utilities. You can also
manage server farms, servers, and sites by using
the Microsoft .NET Framework–based object model
and Web services, making possible a great many
custom and third-party administration solution
offerings.
- You can use Microsoft Office System 2003
as a powerful set of collaboration tools.
Thanks to the Web services provided by Windows
SharePoint Services, programs in the Microsoft
Office System—including Microsoft Office Word,
Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office PowerPoint,
Microsoft Office InfoPath, and Microsoft Office
OneNote—can use information in SharePoint sites
natively. Programs in the Microsoft Office System
allow users to add members to sites, assign
tasks, and communicate with members both by
e-mail or in real time by using online presence,
all while working on documents stored in SharePoint
sites. With Microsoft Office Outlook, users
can view calendars and contact lists stored
on SharePoint sites and can create and manage
sites devoted to editing documents and organizing
meetings.
- You can organize sites and site content
by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal
Server 2003.
Windows SharePoint Services provides large numbers
of individually productive places. SharePoint
Portal Server connects these places to people,
teams, knowledge, and applications to create
smart organizations. It adds site organization
and navigation, content topics, targeted news,
personalized sites, content search, organization-wide
alerts, enterprise application integration,
and more to a Windows SharePoint Services deployment.
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