Microsoft Windows SharePoint

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Products and Technologies facilitate collaboration within an organization and with partners and customers. Using the combined collaboration features of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, users in your organization can easily create, manage, and build their own collaborative Web sites and make them available throughout the organization. Read below to learn more about the relationship between Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server.

Windows SharePoint Services technology in Windows Server is an integrated portfolio of collaboration and communication services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. You can also use Windows SharePoint Services as a development platform for creating collaboration and information-sharing applications. It is available for download at no additional charge to Windows Server customers.

SharePoint Portal Server is a secure, scalable, enterprise portal server built upon Windows SharePoint Services that you can use to aggregate SharePoint sites, information, and applications in your organization into a single, easy-to-use portal. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 relies on Windows SharePoint Services to provide basic Web hosting and document storage functions, but extends it with additional functions for navigation, search, application integration, and personalization.
 

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