SharePoint Portal Server

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Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server is the flexible portal solution that lets you find, share, and publish information easily. Formerly known by its code-name, “Tahoe” SharePoint Portal Server allows users to utilize existing information effectively, and to capture information in new ways that make sense for your business. In addition, you can rapidly deploy an out-of-the-box portal site and easily use Web-Parts technology to customize a Web-based view of your organization.

News and Reviews Coverage

NEWS: InternetWeek - 1/08/01
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20010108S0003
"Internal tests at Microsoft have shown the software to be able to index 5 million documents over 2,000 servers."

NEWS: eWeek - 1/9/01
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2672786,00.html
"Enabling companies to find, share and publish information, SharePoint Portal Server works with Microsoft Office and Windows to allow enterprise customers to integrate search, documents, subscriptions and online discussions into their collaboration processes, said officials of the Redmond, Wash., company."

NEWS: Computerworld -- 1/9/01
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88_STO56050,00.html
"In addition to its searching and indexing capabilities, SharePoint Portal Server features document management capabilities, such as check in/check out, version tracking and approval routing."

NEWS: Network World -- 1/8/01
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0108mstahoe.html
"The search engine can index and catalog any file that has an iFilter, which allows the search engine to view a file's contents. There are iFilters available for Adobe PDF files, Corel Word Perfect and Microsoft Office applications. The engine also can index HTML-based files. Microsoft is working with vendors such as SAP on filters for their file formats, which currently have to be saved to HTML before they can be recognized by the search engine's indexing feature."

NEWS: Information Week -- 1/9/01
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010109S0003
"Microsoft says the package, which it has been beta testing since last year under the Tahoe code name, could create a mass market for software that lets companies index and search for Office documents, E-mail messages, and Web pages based on their text and attributes, such as who created them."

REVIEW: Network Computing -- 1/8/2001
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1201/1201sp2.html
Ron Anderson's Tahoe Beta 2 review results in positive coverage for Microsoft. Impressed with Tahoe's features and usability, he comments "Tahoe will be a boon to organizations that need to manage, classify and retrieve Office documents or other text-based information from a variety of sources..."

"The Tahoe client is needed to perform administrative functions. I used the Web folder view to customize Tahoe's portal content, and in 15 minutes I included document sources indexing the entire editorial content of the Network Computing Web site. (See the portal screen below.)"