Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is a Web Portal which belongs to the Microsoft Office family. It's current name drops the word 'Portal' and is now called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It is a collaborative portal application based on the Windows SharePoint Services platform, a free component of Windows Server 2003. Windows SharePoint Services offers online publishing of standard file formats. It also has version control, document approval and a basic search facility. SharePoint Portal Server adds search of external content sources, a flexible hierarchy of content areas, enhanced navigation, Single Sign On service and additional personalization features. SharePoint Portal Server's main strength is enabling an organization’s information to be organized and aggregated in one central, web-based application.
The application has a Microsoft SQL Server back-end for storing data. The front-end consists of ASP.NET pages served via Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 on Windows Server 2003. It uses an ISAPI filter to map its web-based path to the database records.
It can be configured to return separate content for Intranet, Extranet and Internet locations. It uses a similar permissions model to Microsoft Windows, via groups of users. Active Directory groups can be added to SharePoint groups to easily tie in permissions.
The primary reason for using SharePoint is to provide a taxonomy for corporate data. SharePoint provides a structure to otherwise disparate data.
Versions
- 2007 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- 2003 - Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
- 2001 - SharePoint Portal Server 2001
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 for data storage and is build with ASP.NET 2.0
Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 uses Microsoft SQL Server storage for data storage. Documents, document metadata, lists, and ASPX web pages are stored as database records. Sharepoint Portal Server 2001 utilized Web Storage System files, a variant of a Microsoft Exchange datastore, for all document storage.
Sharepoint Portal Server 2001 included basic workflow options, including parallel and serial approval routing. Additionally, Sharepoint document versioning supported major and minor versions, with approval required for major revisions. Enforced security prevented publishing of minor revisions of a document without approval.
Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 eliminated support for minor versions, and removed much of the workflow functionality available in Sharepoint Portal Server 2001. Subsequently, a number of other software vendors have developed products to restore and enhance this lost functionality.
See also
- List of collaborative software
External links
- BrightWork, Project Management Solutions for SharePoint (SPS/WSS)
- SPSFAQ.com, Detailed resource on every aspect of SharePoint
- Official web site
- SHAREPOINTCOMMUNITY.COM
- SharePoint University, an online community of SharePoint users
- MSD2D, an online community and marketing site
- SharePoint Blogs, a collection of SharePoint bloggers
- Mark Harrison blog
- Bil Simser's blog
- Bob Mixon's SharePoint and Knowledge Management Site
- Patrick Tisseghem's Blog
- Amanda Murphy's SharePoint and Xbox Blog
- Shane Perran's SharePoint Customization Blog
- Original SharePoint Wiki Page
- The Boiler Room - SharePoint Blog
- SharePoint Bloggers
- Point2Share
- AvePoint: ShrePoint Backup, Recovery, and Archiving Software
- Offline SharePoint The offline SharePoint community (blog)
- WSS FAQ for the WSS part of SPS 2003
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