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Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

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Chapter 1: Introduction to <strong>Microsoft</strong> SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong> 11<br />

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 also supports creating <strong>and</strong> managing personal sites<br />

(My Site) that can become a personal storage <strong>and</strong> sharing location.<br />

Subscriptions <strong>and</strong> Alerts<br />

In SharePoint Team Services <strong>and</strong> SharePoint Portal Server 2001, you could use subscriptions<br />

to receive messages when your shared documents were changed. The<br />

name of the subscriptions feature has now changed to alerts. Windows SharePoint<br />

Services <strong>and</strong> SharePoint Portal Server 2003 both continue to support alerts. Windows<br />

SharePoint Services supports alerts on lists <strong>and</strong> individual items in lists, <strong>and</strong> Share-<br />

Point Portal Server 2003 builds on this functionality by adding support for alerts on<br />

people, areas, searches, <strong>and</strong> news alerts.<br />

Simple Single-Server Configurations <strong>and</strong> Highly Scalable Server<br />

Farm Configurations<br />

SharePoint Team Services <strong>and</strong> SharePoint Portal Server 2001 were deployed as single-server<br />

solutions or as groups of servers, but little support was available for creating<br />

<strong>and</strong> deploying highly scalable server farms. Windows SharePoint Services is<br />

specifically designed to vastly improve performance for each server <strong>and</strong> to support<br />

deployment in highly scalable server farms using multiple stateless front-end servers<br />

connected to one or more back-end content servers.<br />

Important Features <strong>and</strong> Terminology Used in<br />

SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong><br />

In addition to underst<strong>and</strong>ing the technical design of SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong>,<br />

you also need to underst<strong>and</strong> the new <strong>and</strong> changed terminology introduced<br />

in SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong>.<br />

SharePoint Sites <strong>and</strong> Site Collections<br />

The terminology used to name the components in SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong><br />

varies depending on whether you are an end user, a developer, a Windows<br />

administrator, or a SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong> administrator. For Share-<br />

Point <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong> end users, the terminology used in the SharePoint<br />

<strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong> Web interface is consistent with the long-term goals <strong>and</strong><br />

direction for SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong>. Some of the terminology for<br />

developers is more consistent with the older SharePoint Team Services object<br />

model. The terminology for Windows administrators <strong>and</strong> SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>Technologies</strong> administrators is a mixture of SharePoint Team Services terminology<br />

<strong>and</strong> Windows SharePoint Services terminology. <strong>Microsoft</strong> plans to increase the<br />

consistency of the terminology for developers <strong>and</strong> administrators in future versions<br />

of SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong>.

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