September 2007
Beginner
822 pages
23h 3m
English
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SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
by James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Christopher Pragash, Piotr Prussak, Christopher J. Regan
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Portals
Portal sites connect users to information, expertise, and applications, and MOSS has some very compelling portal features. It has truly become a world-class Enterprise Portal platform. MOSS provides organizations with a foundation on which they can build solutions for every aspect of their business.
Features
The "Portals" functional area can be summed up with the following feature list:
Intranet template
News
Site directories
My Sites
People finding
Social networking
Privacy
Intranet template
Preconfigured portal site templates streamline the creation, customization, and deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate web sites.
You can easily pick the type of template you would like to use for each site you create (see Figure 1-13).
Figure 1-13. Different site templates
News
Creating news items has always been available with SharePoint (Figure 1-14), but the new content syndication features take "News" to a new level. The ease with which MOSS can subscribe to content makes it that much easier to keep content relevant and up-to-date for users.
Figure 1-14. News article
The new content syndication feature allows the use of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site (Figure 1-15). You can easily post and publish ...
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