Customizing and Enhancing SharePoint

Because SharePoint sites are built on ASP.NET, they are extensible through the .NET framework. The Object Model is available for building custom SharePoint solutions, and SOAP access provides for remote programming. This provides a platform for customizations such as development of custom alert types to integrate with the organization's data sources.

In addition, Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provide a number of tools that facilitate customization of the environment, and many third-party applications and add-ons are available.

Using the Browser to Customize SharePoint

In SharePoint Portal 2001, there was a template that contained three “zones” for placing Web Parts, producing ...

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