Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

Introduction

While organizations have been talking about knowledge management and team collaboration for years, Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services finally provided a feature rich, affordable and scalable solution to these needs. As we wrote in the introduction for the first edition of the book, “every organization can benefit from these technologies,” and we have seen this proven as organizations from 5 users to 10,000 users adopt the technologies.

Another factor which has been driving the adoption of the SharePoint 2003 products is the tight integration between the SharePoint 2003 products and the Office 2003 family of products. Since most organizations have standardized on the Office applications, this integration ...