Portals

Portal sites connect your people to business critical information, expertise, and applications. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a world class Enterprise Portal platform that makes it easy to build and maintain portal sites for every aspect of your business.

Connect your people to information and expertise

Quick, easy access to critical information and expertise means better decisions and more rigorous execution.

Connect your people to key business applications

Consolidated access to existing business applications drives consistent performance of common business tasks. Streamlined development of new composite applications can lead to order of magnitude improvements in important business processes.

Connect your people to role-specific resources

Personalized information delivery increases the relevance and value of information.

Learn more about these Portals Features.

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  • Introduction to My Site
    My Site is a personal site that gives users a central location to aggregate information "for me," "by me," and "about me." This page includes an overview of My Site and the different ways you can use it to manage and store your documents, content, links, and contacts.

  • Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites
    These are custom templates, designed for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality, and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. This page includes additional information about each template and how to download them for free.

  • Community Kit for SharePoint
    The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest.

  • MSDN Library: What Are Composite Applications?
    A composite application is a collection of software assets that have been assembled to provide a business capability. This MSDN white paper will introduce the notion of composite applications as an architectural pattern to provide the right platform for enabling composition that is contextual, collaborative, easy-to-use, role-based, and configurable.

  • Resources for Interoperability with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) provides enterprises with a scalable business platform for managing content and integrating line of business systems.

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  • Frequently Asked Questions on Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites
    This page includes additional information on the availability, functionality, and extensibility of the Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites.

  • People and Personalization Help and How-to
    Read articles to learn more about My Site and how to target content to specific audiences.

  • Office Business Applications (OBA): Building Composite Applications Using the Microsoft Platform
    This book is about composite applications and how they can be developed as OBAs using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It provides an overview of the technologies available in the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and gives several examples from various industries to build OBAs using composition at the presentation, business-logic, and data layers. This book is meant for solution architects, industry architects, or senior developers who are designing, developing, and deploying composite applications. Download this book (6.6 MB .pdf document).

  • Introduction to workflows
    Workflows help people to collaborate on documents and to manage project tasks by implementing business processes on documents and items in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site. This page includes an overview of workflows, a list of out-of-the-box workflows included in SharePoint Server 2007, an introduction to creating custom workflows, and the steps involved in using workflows.

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Miami-Dade Public Schools

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Miami-Dade Public Schools

"Teachers and administrators are more productive and effective; parents are participating more actively; and students are more empowered to help manage, influence, and direct their own educations."

–Deborah Karcher, Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

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