Overview

Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server 2001 is a flexible Web-based portal solution that you can use to find, share, and publish information easily.

SharePoint Portal Server provides a rich, customizable out-of-the-box Web portal that gives users quick access to business-critical information throughout an organization. It integrates basic document management functions such as check-in, check-out, document profiles, and document publishing with Microsoft Office products used every day. In addition, users can create SharePoint Portal Server workspaces to plan, share, and manage project documents.

Based on Microsoft Digital Dashboard technology, the SharePoint Portal Server dashboard site offers a single customizable source for accessing information drawn from a wide variety of content sources, while maintaining the security of the documents. External content sources can include other SharePoint Portal Server workspaces, intranet or Internet sites, Microsoft Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 5.5 public folder hierarchies, Lotus Notes 4.6a+ and R5 databases, local file systems, and network file servers.

You can deploy SharePoint Portal Server within a department or across an entire organization. It is designed to work seamlessly with familiar applications such as Office and Microsoft Internet Explorer, so employees throughout an organization can take advantage of the product immediately.

Benefits

Simplest access to business information
Index the most important enterprise content sources and content types; capture and respect security settings for Windows, Exchange and Lotus Notes

Best results from search queries based on an industry-leading probabilistic ranking algorithm

Stay current on topics, documents and searches using subscriptions based on scalable persistent query technology

Classify similar types of content and group it appropriately through automatic categorization technology

Seamless knowledge portal integration with the Microsoft Office and Windows productivity desktop
Incorporate business processes around documents with check-in/check-out, versioning and approval routing functionality

Easily track document history and roll back to previous versions

Effectively classify documents by applying business relevant information to each document

Include people outside the enterprise in the document collaboration process with the web browser as an alternative user interface

The most effective way to build and extend intranet portals
Easily extend the digital dashboard-based Tahoe portal UI by adding Web Parts

Easily create personalized Digital Dashboards and share them with other users

Built on Internet and industry standards such as XML, WebDAV, ADO/OLEDB and CDO

Using Visual Studio developers can write applications that leverage Active Server Pages and ADO to add collaboration functionality

Server Requirements

• System with a Pentium III-compatible processor minimum recommended.
• 256 MB of RAM minimum recommended.
• 550 MB of available hard-disk space minimum recommended.
• VGA, Super VGA, or video graphics adapter compatible with Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system, and Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 or later.
• CD-ROM drive
• Network adapter card
• Keyboard
• Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft Intellimouse or compatible pointing device .
• Client Requirements.
• System with a Pentium-compatible 200 MHz or higher processor recommended.
• 64 MB of RAM minimum recommended.
• 30 MB of available hard-disk space required on Windows 2000 systems; 50 MB of available hard-disk space required on all other systems.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later and Outlook Express 5.01 or later running on Microsoft Windows 98, Windows NT version 4.0 with Service Pack 6a, Windows ME, or Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows Advanced Server.
• Use of Tahoe's Administration functions requires Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
• Use of Tahoe's Office extensions requires Microsoft Office 2000 or later.
• To use Tahoe's browser-accessible features only, you need Internet Explorer 4.01 or later, or Netscape Communicator 4.75 running on the Windows operating system.