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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is free web portal software download from Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (also known as WSS) offers excellent collaborative solution that is essential for enterprise environments. WSS 3.0 is available with it's stand-alone database known as Microsoft Database Engine (MSDE) for trial and evaluation purposes. WSS 3.0 can be deployed with SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 to support enterprise level application.
Today medium to large size corporations are facing common IT problems such as document and information management solution that offers adequate security and functionality to be accessible over internet. Windows SharePoint Services have been designed to address these common business problems effectively. Document Management capabilities is the most popular feature of Windows SharePoint Services. Most organizations are storing small to large size office files such as Word, Excel, Auto-cad drawings, PDF and image documents inside WSS sites and document libraries. Windows SharePoint Services offers features such as document categorization within sites and document libraries as well as site wide search. WSS search capabilities have been extended to search within Microsoft Office documents also. It also offers option for developers to develop & implement custom search filters to search within Portable Document Format (PDF) files and other file format adapters offered by independent software vendors (ISVs). WSS 3.0 is seamlessly integrated with corporate Active Directory (AD) security in order to provide corporate users accessibility without any additional efforts. WSS can be deployed within intranet as well as extranet environment with secure access to documents remotely. Please read to understand more about benefits of using SharePoint Server or address questions such as What SharePoint has to offer for my business
SRG Network consultants have expertise of Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal customization, integration and deployment. Our client replies heavily on our technical expertise to customize their existing SharePoint environment for efficient collaborative business process execution. We have extensive experience developing SharePoint web-parts, SharePoint templates and setting up SharePoint Document Authorization Workflows. We also help setting up SharePoint workspace such as Document Workspace, My Site workspace on SharePoint Server for corporate portal environment setup. We recommend best practices and guidelines to manage SharePoint database and SharePoint Information Management for effective document management with high response time. Our consultants have configured SharePoint Search most effectively to achieve maximum efficiently and response time from SharePoint Document and Content Search features. SharePoint is popularly used as a Document Management tool besides a simple Collaborative environment. Lots of small to medium size corporations are moving towards Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for their business documents and collaboration management. SharePoint has proven itself as an cost-effective document management tool compare to it's competitor such as OpenText /Hummingbird, Documentum or Interwoven. There are still lots of important features missing within SharePoint that these product offers but Microsoft is actively looking into feature enhancements in near future. Our SharePoint customization, integration and deployment services have helped many Houston, Texas based Oil, Energy and Service companies streamlining business processes more effectively. Using our services, our clients have successfully customize, integrate SharePoint within their intranet as well as extranet environments. For small and medium size businesses, SRG have also customized SharePoint solution to give familiar look and feel to provide their current intranet/internet application usability experience. Our customization efforts have helped corporations to make effective use of Windows SharePoint Services in storing large chunk of documents along with other relevant business metadata for efficient searching and reporting. We have also integrated Windows SharePoint Services with enterprise application such as Microsoft Projects, SAP AG, PeopleSoft HRMS, SalesForce.com CRM and other line-of-business (LOB) applications and databases to provide Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) services. SRG also provides wide range f services such as Microsoft Great Plains and MOSS (SharePoint) integration and MOSS (SharePoint) integration, Microsoft Navision and MOSS (SharePoint) integration and Microsoft Solomon and MOSS (SharePoint) integration. We are also helping our clients integrating SQL Reporting Services SP2 with SharePoint technologies, Interwoven Worksite integration with SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
What's new in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0
WSS 3.0 has lots of new features from it's previous version, WSS 2003. For effective Collaboration, you can send an email to a SharePoint site as well as add emails to existing site contents such as documents, discussion items and calendar events. This feature simplify routine content addition task with as little as sending an email to a specific SharePoint list email id. Emails send to this email ids can also be archived and searched by all users within a SharePoint group using basic SharePoint search. Thus it eliminates traditional ways of individual searching their inboxes to find relevant information.
SharePoint interface have been made more user friendly to make sites more usable and gain rapid acquaintance. Some of the examples are easier to navigate and to customize sites and themes using Quick launch menus. You can also reorder Quick launch items easily using your web browser such as Internet Explorer (IE). For users coming from Microsoft Windows Explorer world, Good news is tree view type control has been installed & implemented more effectively in order to view your files in a folder. Breadcrumb navigation enables users to move around easily within sites and help users understanding over all site structure more effectively. Users can work with their SharePoint calendar while working on compatible programs, such as Office Outlook 2007. Besides that, WSS 3.0 offers other miscellaneous improvements such as easy document copy, check-in facility, content type specification for document categorization, add folders within SharePoint list, add metadata to Folders, track version of SharePoint list items.
Two levels of recycled bin have been introduced viz. document owner and site collection level for extended document recovery. Option to mandate check-out before document edits have been implemented. "Master Page" feature has been introduce to ease site wide changes and customization. Site columns have been introduced to be used in multiple list items with ease of maintenance such as pick list updates. Versions are categorized in "Major Version" and "Minor Version" for efficient document audit/assessment. Workflow has been introduced to provide common functionalities such as document review and approval process. Security permission can be implemented at item level on a document, file, list item. This was a very important feature missing in previous version of SharePoint Services ie. WSS 2003. Searching and indexing have been improved. Enhanced events helps developers customizing list content more efficiently. For example, all documents uploaded within SharePoint must have latest copyrighted section at the end. This process can be automated using asynchronous /synchronous event handling on SharePoint list items.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is free web portal software download from Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (also known as WSS) offers excellent collaborative solution that is essential for enterprise environments. WSS 3.0 is available with it's stand-alone database known as Microsoft Database Engine (MSDE) for trial and evaluation purposes. WSS 3.0 can be deployed with SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 to support enterprise level application.
Today medium to large size corporations are facing common IT problems such as document and information management solution that offers adequate security and functionality to be accessible over internet. Windows SharePoint Services have been designed to address these common business problems effectively. Document Management capabilities is the most popular feature of Windows SharePoint Services. Most organizations are storing small to large size office files such as Word, Excel, Auto-cad drawings, PDF and image documents inside WSS sites and document libraries. Windows SharePoint Services offers features such as document categorization within sites and document libraries as well as site wide search. WSS search capabilities have been extended to search within Microsoft Office documents also. It also offers option for developers to develop & implement custom search filters to search within Portable Document Format (PDF) files and other file format adapters offered by independent software vendors (ISVs). WSS 3.0 is seamlessly integrated with corporate Active Directory (AD) security in order to provide corporate users accessibility without any additional efforts. WSS can be deployed within intranet as well as extranet environment with secure access to documents remotely. Please read to understand more about benefits of using SharePoint Server or address questions such as What SharePoint has to offer for my business
SRG Network consultants have expertise of Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal customization, integration and deployment. Our client replies heavily on our technical expertise to customize their existing SharePoint environment for efficient collaborative business process execution. We have extensive experience developing SharePoint web-parts, SharePoint templates and setting up SharePoint Document Authorization Workflows. We also help setting up SharePoint workspace such as Document Workspace, My Site workspace on SharePoint Server for corporate portal environment setup. We recommend best practices and guidelines to manage SharePoint database and SharePoint Information Management for effective document management with high response time. Our consultants have configured SharePoint Search most effectively to achieve maximum efficiently and response time from SharePoint Document and Content Search features. SharePoint is popularly used as a Document Management tool besides a simple Collaborative environment. Lots of small to medium size corporations are moving towards Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for their business documents and collaboration management. SharePoint has proven itself as an cost-effective document management tool compare to it's competitor such as OpenText /Hummingbird, Documentum or Interwoven. There are still lots of important features missing within SharePoint that these product offers but Microsoft is actively looking into feature enhancements in near future. Our SharePoint customization, integration and deployment services have helped many Houston, Texas based Oil, Energy and Service companies streamlining business processes more effectively. Using our services, our clients have successfully customize, integrate SharePoint within their intranet as well as extranet environments. For small and medium size businesses, SRG have also customized SharePoint solution to give familiar look and feel to provide their current intranet/internet application usability experience. Our customization efforts have helped corporations to make effective use of Windows SharePoint Services in storing large chunk of documents along with other relevant business metadata for efficient searching and reporting. We have also integrated Windows SharePoint Services with enterprise application such as Microsoft Projects, SAP AG, PeopleSoft HRMS, SalesForce.com CRM and other line-of-business (LOB) applications and databases to provide Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) services. SRG also provides wide range f services such as Microsoft Great Plains and MOSS (SharePoint) integration and MOSS (SharePoint) integration, Microsoft Navision and MOSS (SharePoint) integration and Microsoft Solomon and MOSS (SharePoint) integration. We are also helping our clients integrating SQL Reporting Services SP2 with SharePoint technologies, Interwoven Worksite integration with SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
What's new in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0
WSS 3.0 has lots of new features from it's previous version, WSS 2003. For effective Collaboration, you can send an email to a SharePoint site as well as add emails to existing site contents such as documents, discussion items and calendar events. This feature simplify routine content addition task with as little as sending an email to a specific SharePoint list email id. Emails send to this email ids can also be archived and searched by all users within a SharePoint group using basic SharePoint search. Thus it eliminates traditional ways of individual searching their inboxes to find relevant information.
SharePoint interface have been made more user friendly to make sites more usable and gain rapid acquaintance. Some of the examples are easier to navigate and to customize sites and themes using Quick launch menus. You can also reorder Quick launch items easily using your web browser such as Internet Explorer (IE). For users coming from Microsoft Windows Explorer world, Good news is tree view type control has been installed & implemented more effectively in order to view your files in a folder. Breadcrumb navigation enables users to move around easily within sites and help users understanding over all site structure more effectively. Users can work with their SharePoint calendar while working on compatible programs, such as Office Outlook 2007. Besides that, WSS 3.0 offers other miscellaneous improvements such as easy document copy, check-in facility, content type specification for document categorization, add folders within SharePoint list, add metadata to Folders, track version of SharePoint list items.
Two levels of recycled bin have been introduced viz. document owner and site collection level for extended document recovery. Option to mandate check-out before document edits have been implemented. "Master Page" feature has been introduce to ease site wide changes and customization. Site columns have been introduced to be used in multiple list items with ease of maintenance such as pick list updates. Versions are categorized in "Major Version" and "Minor Version" for efficient document audit/assessment. Workflow has been introduced to provide common functionalities such as document review and approval process. Security permission can be implemented at item level on a document, file, list item. This was a very important feature missing in previous version of SharePoint Services ie. WSS 2003. Searching and indexing have been improved. Enhanced events helps developers customizing list content more efficiently. For example, all documents uploaded within SharePoint must have latest copyrighted section at the end. This process can be automated using asynchronous /synchronous event handling on SharePoint list items.
