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Top 10 Reasons to Deploy
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
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SharePoint Services takes file sharing to a new
level.
Instead of just dumping files into directories,
Windows SharePoint Services supplies Web sites
with document storage and retrieval with
check-in and check-out functionality, version
history, custom metadata, and flexible,
customizable views. Users can find and share
data, with the added assurance that data will
not be lost.
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You can share many kinds of information.
SharePoint sites store event calendars,
contacts, Web links, discussions, issues lists,
announcements, and much more. By using Windows
SharePoint Services, you can create smart places
that help your users share information and get
work done, not just a place to save files.|
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Users get the authority, flexibility, and
customization they need.
You can grant users the ability to create sites,
allow them to control site membership, monitor
site usage directly, and moderate content
submissions. Users can even create site
templates and share them with one another,
reusing customized, proven site solutions.
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IT gets the management tools it needs.
Despite the authority delegated to users,
Windows SharePoint Services also enables you to
track which sites are created, who owns them,
how long a site has gone unused, and so on. You
can enforce quotas for sites, users, and
storage; block users from adding specific file
types to sites; and automatically delete sites
that are unused for long periods of time.
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Windows SharePoint Services scales to enterprise
deployments.
You can deploy Windows SharePoint Services in
server farms that support tens of thousands of
sites and can handle the typical load of
hundreds of thousands of users. Windows
SharePoint Services supports load balancing for
Web servers and server clustering technology for
all data—including configuration, documents, and
list data.
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If you want to start small, Windows SharePoint
Services runs on a single computer.
Despite the fact that it was engineered to scale
to large enterprise deployments, Windows
SharePoint Services runs well on deployments for
small business, departmental, or pilot
environments.
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You can enhance your SharePoint sites using Web
Parts.
Site owners and users can add the Web Parts you
provide to their site pages, adding new features
to the sites they already use. ASP.NET
developers can write Web Parts to provide data
access, Web services, and many other
applications and content to SharePoint sites.
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You can manage Windows SharePoint Services the
way you want.
You can manage and configure Windows SharePoint
Services right out of the box by using a Web
browser or command-line utilities. You can also
manage server farms, servers, and sites by using
the Microsoft .NET Framework–based object model
and Web services, making possible a great many
custom and third-party administration solution
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You can use Microsoft Office System 2003 as a
powerful set of collaboration tools.
Thanks to the Web services provided by Windows
SharePoint Services, programs in the Microsoft
Office System—including Microsoft Office Word,
Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office
PowerPoint, Microsoft Office InfoPath, and
Microsoft Office OneNote—can use information in
SharePoint sites natively. Programs in the
Microsoft Office System allow users to add
members to sites, assign tasks, and communicate
with members both by e-mail or in real time by
using online presence, all while working on
documents stored in SharePoint sites. With
Microsoft Office Outlook, users can view
calendars and contact lists stored on SharePoint
sites and can create and manage sites devoted to
editing documents and organizing meetings.
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You can organize sites and site content by using
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
Windows SharePoint Services provides large
numbers of individually productive places.
SharePoint Portal Server connects these places
to people, teams, knowledge, and applications to
create smart organizations. It adds site
organization and navigation, content topics,
targeted news, personalized sites, content
search, organization-wide alerts, enterprise
application integration, and more to a Windows
SharePoint Services deployment. |
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