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SharePoint Services

What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services?

A platform, rather than a product, Microsoft SharePoint Services can be developed to do what you want it to do – it is many things to many people.

It is a component of the Windows Server and Small Business Server 2003 information worker infrastructure, so you probably already have it.

But do you know exactly what is?

Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology that organisations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. It helps people stay connected across organisational and geographical boundaries with instant access to the information you need.

Windows SharePoint Services provides a foundation platform for building web based business applications that flex and scale to easily meet the changing and growing needs of your business. It helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents and information needed to make more informed decisions and get the job done. It is a single workspace for teams to coordinate schedules, organise documents and participate in discussions within the organisation and over the extranet.

Windows SharePoint Services is the dynamic information portal for business. It is the easy way to centrally store and find information with fully customisable and tailored search technology. It is an integrated portfolio of collaboration and communication services, designed to connect people, information, processes and systems, both within the organisation and beyond.

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Key Information

Top 10 Benefits of Windows SharePoint Services
Improve team productivity with easy-to-use and scalable collaborative tools Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of concept Get users up to speed quickly with familiar productivity tools Manage workflows within groups to efficiently manage the document creation process Build a collaboration environment quickly and easily Reduce the complexity of securing business information Provide sophisticated controls for developing top down policies Take file sharing to the next level with robust store and share capabilities Gain access to SharePoint on your mobile device for anywhere access Provide a cost effective foundation for building web-based applications
New Features of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
NEW! Templates for implementing blogs and wikis in an easy-to-edit format. NEW! Enhanced support for offline synchronisation through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. NEW! Improved services for controlling access to information and setting policies for site creation that enable security controls to be set as deep down as the item level. NEW! Enable site managers to initiate and control their own self-service workspaces and tasks, and mange the participation of others, without compromising security. NEW! More robust document storage environment with recycle bin item retrieval and version control features built into team workspaces. NEW! Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer that enables you to quickly and easily customise SharePoint sites and build reporting tools and applications tailored to specific tasks, without writing or deploying new code. NEW! Content types enable you to define custom metadata for documents. Working smoothly with 2007 Microsoft Office System client applications enables you to edit metadata through the document information panel.