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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Overview

Microsoft SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 enables enterprises to develop an intelligent portal that seamlessly connects users, teams, and knowledge so that people can take advantage of relevant information across business processes to help them work more efficiently. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides an enterprise business solution that integrates information from various systems into one solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities, with flexible deployment options and management tools.

The portal facilitates end-to-end collaboration by enabling aggregation, organization, and search capabilities for people, teams, and information. Users can find relevant information quickly through customization and personalization of portal content and layout, as well as by audience targeting. Organizations can target information, programs, and updates to audiences based on their organizational role, team membership, interest, security group, or any other membership criteria that can be defined.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 uses Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2003 sites to create portal pages for people, information, and organizations. The portal also extends the capabilities of Microsoft Windows® SharePoint Services sites with organization and management tools, and enables teams to publish information in their sites to the entire organization.

Put Information to Work

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables a single point of access to multiple systems such as Microsoft Office System programs, business intelligence and project management systems, and existing line-of-business applications, including third-party and industry-specific programs. The portal, built on a scalable, highly distributed architecture, provides flexible tools for deployment, development, and management, all of which enable the portal to grow with your organization’s needs. These integration features enable you to harness information to make use of your company’s resources.

Users can extract and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and reports, and quickly locate and access documents, projects, and best practices across the company. The portal features search technology developed by Microsoft Research that enables you to search file shares, Web servers, Microsoft Exchange Server public folders, Lotus Notes, and Windows SharePoint Services sites out of the box. In addition, you can organize documents and information by topic and browse for relevant content. Alerts notify you when new information is added or existing information changes to help you better use the data.

Connect Collaborative People and Spaces

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides a powerful team collaboration environment that enables organizations to aggregate, organize, find, and provision SharePoint sites across the enterprise. SharePoint sites for teams, documents, and meetings can also be extended to customers and partners, augmenting the reach and efficiency of existing collaboration methods.

The portal further facilitates end-to-end collaboration by delivering document and content collaboration to individuals, teams, business units, and the enterprise. Document versioning, approval workflow, check in and check out, document profiling, and publishing facilitate easy collaboration on documents, projects, and tasks. In addition, the portal enables information workers to easily find and make use of people, teams, and existing best practices—rather than reinvent the wheel with each project.

Target and Tailor Information to Be More Productive

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables IT departments and users to customize and personalize the portal experience. Relevant content, such as line-of-business and Office programs, Web services, news, sales, and other company data, is delivered to the portal through Web Parts.

Web Parts can be downloaded from Microsoft and industry partners by IT departments, or they can be developed using Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET. Authorized users can add Web Parts to organizational or divisional portals from Web Part galleries, without the need for any Web development experience. In addition, IT departments can "lock down" specific Web Parts or page zones so that organizations can distribute important information to all employees through the portal. Users are also provided personal portal pages, called My Site, where they can organize the information, programs, and SharePoint sites they access throughout the day.

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	Midlands Training       SharePoint 2003 Administrator Track Overview SharePoint Portal Content Manager Overview SharePoint 2003 Developer Track Overview SharePoint 2003 InfoPath Developer Fundamentals Overview SharePoint 2003 Train the Trainer Overview SharePoint 2003 Designer Overview Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Overview     SharePoint End User Training SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services assume a distributed administrative and security architecture.  In other words, these products were written with the idea that you, the SharePoint Administrator, would not manage the majority of this product.  Instead, your end users would perform most of the management tasks. Organizations are realizing that in order to implement SharePoint Portal Server 2003, they must educate their end-users if the product is going to be used as it was intended to be used.  In order to push out collaboration in the enterprise, one must also push out oversight of the information being collaborated upon, necessitating education that gets everyone on the same page. So, who needs to be educated?  At Combined Knowledge, we think there are six groups that will need education: Portal Readers:  Those who consume information in the portal but do not contribute to the content that appears in the portal Contributors:  Those who create content and work with documents in team sites Site Administrators:  Those who will need to manage a site or site collection. Office System Users:  Those who work with Office 2003 and need to know how to use the integration points between SharePoint and Office 2003. Site Designers:  Those who will be asked to modify and customize one or more sites using FrontPage 2003. My Site (Personal Site) Midlands End User Training     Introduction to SharePoint Overview SharePoint Power End User Overview SharePoint End User Reader Overview SharePoint End User Contributor Overview SharePoint End User My Site Overview Office 2003 and SharePoint Integration Overview SharePoint End User Site Administrator Overview Customising SharePoint with FrontPage Overview Portal Content Manager 2003 Overview       Course Details     What delegates say about our courses SharePoint Training Vouchers

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SharePoint Knowledge End User Courses

A great SharePoint Portal Server 2003 deployment cannot be achieved without great end-user training. Your Contributors, Site Administrators, Readers, and Office Workers will need to learn how to use the portal, how to work with documents, how to administrate a site and how to leverage the features in Office 2003 to enhance collaboration and productivity.

This is why we offer the following courses:

• SharePoint Reader
• SharePoint Contributor
• SharePoint Site Administrator
• SharePoint Office and SharePoint Integration
• SharePoint My site
• Customising SharePoint Sites Using FrontPage 2003
• Portal Content Manager

These courses are designed to be delivered by a live instructor in a classroom setting. However, when you purchase a site license, you can modify the materials in any manner you choose to fit your environment. We also sell our courses individually and in bulk.

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