1. SharePoint Portal Server Product Update Paul Ligeski Sr. Technology Specialist Microsoft Corporation pligeski@microsoft.com

2. SharePoint Portal Server Intranet Portal Solution Flexible portal solution that lets you find, share and publish information easily Flexible portal solution that lets you find, share and publish information easily  Simplest access to business information  Integrated document management unleashes portal productivity  Easiest and most effective way to build and customize intranet portals

3. The Role of SharePoint Portal Server Existing Data File\Web Notes\Xchng Applications... Microsoft Servers SQL Server Exchange BizTalk… Microsoft Services MSN Office.Net bCentral\BAD 3 rd -Party LOB Verticals News... SharePoint Portal Server Information Aggregation & Organization Collaboration & Document Management Out-of-Box Customizable Dashboard & Web Applications Deep Office Integration with Business Information and Processes

4. SharePoint Portal Server Features Simplest access to business- critical information Search across Exchange, Windows, Notes, etc. Scaleable notification architecture Best-of-breed relevance ranking technology Automatic categorization Easy administration and management Premier document management solution Check-in/check-out, versioning Document profile services including security Document approval review process Integration with Office toolbar Down-level browser experience Best place to organize and communicate around projects Digital Dashboard portal: personal, business info Taxonomy and category management services Web Storage System applications Office XP workspaces

6. Customizable Home Page Portal Digital Dashboard Framework RichSearch CategoryBrowsing Subscriptions Web-basedDM

7. Search Best-of-breed enterprise search technology Best-of-breed enterprise search technology Design goals Design goals  Comprehensive  Relevant  Timely Large multi-year R&D investment Large multi-year R&D investment  Crawling learning algorithms  Probabilistic ranking  Support vector machine categorization  Inverse Query Commercial reliability and security Commercial reliability and security  Timely data  Scalable

8. Document Management Mainstream document management Mainstream document management  Versioning  Check-in/check-out  Document profiling  Publishing and approval  Role-based security Design goals Design goals  Flexible policy  Ease of use  Enables relevant searches Designed from ground up Designed from ground up  Office integration  Internally HTTP and XML-based  Seamless schema and security integration

9. Summary Rich Integrated Services Rich Integrated Services Customizable Web Workspace Customizable Web Workspace Easy Office/Windows Experience Easy Office/Windows Experience Flexible Deployment Flexible Deployment DMSearch Portal

10. Server Requirements Does not require Active Directory Does not require Active Directory Does not require Exchange Server Does not require Exchange Server Requires Windows 2000 Server SP1 Requires Windows 2000 Server SP1 Localization Localization  English, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, French Hardware: Hardware:  Pentium III, 600 MHz+, 256MB RAM

11. Client Requirements Operating System Operating System  Windows 2000, Windows 98, NT4 Application Application  Office 2000 or greater  SharePoint client (for Office 2000 only) Hardware Hardware  Pentium II, 300MHz, 64MB RAM Browser Client Browser Client  Navigator 4.x, Internet Explorer 4 or greater, Internet Explorer 5.5 preferred

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