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Addressing Portal Scenarios with Microsoft Integrated Portal Technologies
Explore the scope of the broad portal challenge, including planning for capabilities, considering technologies, and evaluating the impact of the technical choices you make on your project. Microsoft Integrated Portal Technologies can assist you, offering a set of products that forms a coherent framework on which to build your portals while maximizing return on your investment.

Architectural Overview of Windows SharePoint Services
Examine the architecture implemented in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Learn what happens on the server when users issue page requests, and how Windows SharePoint Services responds. Understand the role of managed code in relation to unmanaged code in Windows SharePoint Services, and the Windows SharePoint Services database schema.

Best Practices for Developing Web Parts for SharePoint Products and Technologies
Learn techniques for creating Web Parts that perform efficiently, are easy to use, and that integrate well with other components of a Web Part Page.

Building Custom Alert Result Channels in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Understand how .NET developers can extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with custom alert result channels. Learn about offering users extra channels on which to receive alert results. This article works through the Quick Alerts alert result channel as an example.

.NET Support and Security in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services provides support for .NET Web development. The .NET-managed object models serve as a platform for customizing SharePoint sites and for integrating custom Web applications developed upon the .NET Framework.

Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
Check out the top 10 reasons for deploying Windows SharePoint Services including administration, deployment, group collaboration, and platform features.

Enhancements to Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Read an overview that outlines the changes to Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 including new XML support, further support for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, plus enhanced object support and more. Learn about new security features and deployment options.

FrontPage Server Configuration Options and Features
When combined, FrontPage 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services eliminate the need for Server Extensions. This solution allows customers to access new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with better ways to do things in previous versions of FrontPage. Most exciting of all is the evolution of Server Extensions into the more powerful solution of creating rich, Extensible Markup Language (XML) data-driven Web sites and instant Web solutions, accessible through a server configuration that harnesses the power of both Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services.

Good, Better, Best: Windows® SharePoint™ Services Integration with Microsoft Office
Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services, a component of Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, provides tools for information sharing and document collaboration. Using Windows SharePoint Services together with Microsoft Office 2003 Editions gives users even more ways collaborate—such as Document Workspaces and Meeting Workspaces. Learn how Windows SharePoint Services and Office 2003 Editions work together, and the different levels of integration between Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Office 2003 Editions.

Integration of SharePoint Portal and InfoPath
This article describes how the two products can work together.

Live Communications Server 2005 Document: Feature Guide
This document provides an overview of the features in Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the features found in Microsoft Windows Messenger and Microsoft Office System programs, such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Product Guide
This document can assist your evaluation of FrontPage 2003, and give you a sense of the enhanced features and functionality that FrontPage 2003 offers.

Office 2003 Editions Reviewer's Guide
Office 2003 Editions include new and enhanced functionality to help people take advantage of this information, enabling them to communicate more effectively, collaborate with coworkers, and improve business processes. Download this reviewer’s guide to get in-depth information about the new capabilities, technologies, and designs in Office 2003 Editions that help employees and businesses maximize productivity.

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies: Technical Overview
Based on customer feedback and the experience of developing the first version of SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft designed the next generation of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to use a common set of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 services named Windows SharePoint Services. This set of services takes advantage of the performance, stability, and security features of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customer Evaluation Guide
This customer evaluation guide is designed is to give you a solid understanding of the design goals and feature set for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and a familiarity with the product implementation. It provides an overview of the collaboration solution that SharePoint Portal Server 2003 offers and design goals of the product, a description of the new and improved product features, and a hands-on tour of the main feature areas.

Relationship Between Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Using the combined collaboration features of Microsoft Windows SharePointServices and Microsoft Office SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003, organizations can enable their users to create, manage, and easily build their own SharePoint sites, and allow these sites to be discovered throughout the organization.

Microsoft Office System and XML: Bringing XML to the Desktop
Discover how the Microsoft Office System brings XML to the desktop through support for custom schemas in Word 2003 and Excel 2003, to FrontPage 2003 as an authoring environment for XML-based sites, and XML as the native file format for InfoPath 2003.

Windows SharePoint Services Feature Guide
Discover the administration, deployment, group collaboration, and platform features in Windows SharePoint Services.

Windows SharePoint Services Overview
Learn about Windows SharePoint Services, a component of the Windows Server 2003 information worker infrastructure that also serves as a platform for application development.