MCTS: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Configuration: Study Guide Exam 70-630

1.1. Introducing SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint Server 2007 is more than just the tools and mechanisms required to organize corporate data content and business intelligence within web pages, lists, and libraries. MOSS 2007, like its predecessor SharePoint Portal Server 2003, is a portal technology.

A web portal is not just a website's index page. It represents a company's gateway into how information is collected, maintained, shared, presented, modified, and secured. A portal can lead into a highly varied environment involving one or multiple sites serving as an intranet to staff and management, an extranet to the customer base, an Internet site for the general public, or some combination of these sites.

The core technology of MOSS 2007 is ...