Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Planning Design Goals

The SharePoint Portal Server team relies on three key design goals during the development of this new addition to the Microsoft BackOffice family that would allow users to easily find, share, and publish information.

Specifically, the SharePoint Portal Server's development team design goals are

1.	Create easy access to business-critical information
2.	Create the premier document management application for Office users
3.	Create the best place to organize and communicate around projects

The following sections provide additional details about the design goals.

Create Easy Access to Business-Critical Information

The first design goal for SharePoint Portal Server is to create easy access to business-critical information. ...