SharePoint Portal Server is not a application but a stand alone server from the Microsoft .NET family that runs on Windows Server. SharePoint Portal Server, the flexible solution for an enterprise portal , is targeted for the departments, business blocks and the needs for company level information sharing, allowing multiple collaboration, coordination and communication possibilities.

SPPS platform architecture is composed from three levels:

• document management level (storing, indexing, etc) it has to be seen as a system for collecting and indexing information (documents, e-mails, files, databases, etc.) in a coherent system
• portal support level which allows users to access company documents and information, as well as information from external sources
• User Interface level this contains the browser – the customizable portal interface, which allows access to collaboration and information sources.

Services offered for SharePoint platform: 

• SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services deployment
• Windows SharePoint Services integration with SharePoint Portal Server;
• Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server configuration
• Definition and customization of portal architecture
• Customized indexing and searches
• Definition and implementation of portal level access policies
• Definition and implementation of portal level security policies
• Development of personalized Web Parts
• Development of personalized templates

SharePoint Portal Server Benefits:

• It created a complete and unique view over the whole business system
• Open, flexible technology.
• One click information access
• Access to all enterprise knowledge database
• Fast information localization and retrieval through a coherent knowledge system
• Offers and locate SharePoint portals
• Automate enterprise level processes
• A new organizational culture

Functionality and Characteristics:

• Alerts
  
  • Allows creation of customized alerts for easier integration with existing applications and databases.
  • Administrators can prevent usage of invalid e-mail addresses by allowing only user profile addresses to be used. “Alerts” functionality can identify and correct “noisy” alerts from the moment they are created. They can also deactivate alerts that generate too many results.
  • Administrators can use the browser to deactivate or erase user alerts.

• Administration
  
  • This is a scalable product, built on a distributed server architecture, which can be used regardless of enterprise size.

• Audiences
  
  • Take advantage on your Active Directory invest to create Audiences based on the existing distribution lists and security groups.
  • Audiences allow organizations to sent the information directly to the user bases on a number of criteria. You can address Web Parts, news, lists and list elements to one or more audiences. You can programmatically create audiences by using “managed object model”.

• Categories
  
  • You can easily administer categories and themes through a browser. You can create, move, rename, and delete categories using a site map.
  • The portal web site is a hierarchy of sites that allow category administrators to add sites, lists, images and documents in the corresponding categories. Category administrators have the control over the security and content of each category.
  • You can add extra security to portal’s categories.
  • The portal suggests lists of elements that can be added to a given category.

• User Facilities
  
  • users can specify immediate, daily or weekly results for their alerts. New capabilities include alerts for users, news, lists, list elements and Site Directory. You also have improve alerts for categories, searches, documents.
  • Alerts results are displayed in a easy to read format (Hypertext Markup Language - HTML) and they specify it they are the result of content adding or editing.
  • Easy to customize format for generated emails.

• Enterprise type application integration
  
  • Allows integration with PeopleSoft human resources application through single sign-on.
  • Allows integration with business and financial application Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) through sign-on.
  • Allows integration of Siebel client relation applications through sign-on.

• News
  
  • Yoou can easy read daily news summary to find out about important news.
  • Incorporated publishing of news on site's portal.
  • News can be easily added using the text editor integrated in the Add News Item page. News can be also added through RSS data feed from a news service server.

• Personal Sites
  
  • My Site is a personal web site from SharePoint that contains personalized information. This site contains information delivered to users based on their affiliation to given audience. My Site offers users easy access to documents, persons or web sites, as well as personal alerts. From My Site users can update there profiles and share information with other users.
  • Display the list of all documents created by the user in My Site start page. This list is also displayed under “User documents” in user’s profile.
  • Users can see announcements addressed to them on My Site start page.
  • Users can add Inbox and Calendar folders to My Site using Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange Server Web Parts.
  • Users can add Inbox, Calendar and Tasks folders to My Site using Exchange Server Web Parts.

• Searches
  
  • Allows you to search through users, teams, list and list elements.
  • Offers a scalable, high performance search and indexing engine based on a high capacity multi server infrastructure.
  • Fast results and high relevance allows users to easily find the needed information.
  • Allows grouping of search results based on a number of criteria in order to access the information faster and easier.
  • Allows indexing and searches on SSL secured web sites.
  • Allows indexing and searches on web sites pages, documents libraries, lists and lists elements.
  • Automatic searches on documents of type Microsoft Office Publisher (.pub), Microsoft Office Visio® (.vsd), Microsoft Office Word (.doc), Microsoft Office Excel (.xls), Microsoft Office PowerPoint® (.ppt), Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and HTML formats.
  • Microsoft Office System users can search in SharePoint directly through Research and Reference Pane.
  • You can easily add results from searches to My Links Web Part in the personal site.

• Single sign-on
  
  • Single sign-on allows storing and usage of different security information of a given user, so that there is no more need for another authentication when portal applications are accessing other business applications

• Sites Directory
  
  • You can easily create a SharePoint web site from Site Directory, add the web site to the Site Directory and mark it for indexing.
  • Add links to any existing web site and administer this list of web links.
  • Site Directory can be organized based on a number of criteria (metadata), like Regions, and it offers default Web parts for Last Added, My Sites and Best Bets.

• User profiles
  
  • You can easily find user information, and shared documents and links.
  • You can easily import user profiles from Active Directory. User profiles makes user searching simpler and allows sending information directly to users and user groups.
  • You can add custom properties to user profiles and use them in integrated applications. You can also import custom properties from Active Directory.

Install and configuration services: 

• Standard server install
• Create necessary workspaces for teams and projects
• Install and configure clients for accessing documents and available functions

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