Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

20 Part I: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies
Summary
Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provide easy-to-use
sharing tools for your organization. You can use Windows SharePoint Services to
create and maintain many team sites, and you can use SharePoint Portal Server 2003
to build and manage integrated, large-scale portal solutions.
To achieve this significant increase in capability, performance, stability, and
security, the overall architecture of SharePoint Products and Technologies includes
many significant changes. The most important of these changes are the use of the
.NET Framework, Windows Server 2003, and SQL Server for content storage.
To benefit most from the latest version of SharePoint Products and Technologies,
you must be familiar with the changes and new features in SharePoint Products
and Technologies, and you must be familiar with the new, consistent terminology
for SharePoint Products and Technologies. This knowledge can greatly increase
your understanding of both basic and advanced SharePoint Products and Technologies
concepts.
In this chapter, we have introduced—at a very high level—Microsoft Share-
Point Products and Technologies. The following chapters will further specify and
illustrate how to use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint
Services.