Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Security Requirements

At a basic level, security is indispensable both for document management tasks and for maintaining search capability integrity at Global. Regarding document management, access to sensitive data must be restricted—some end users will be responsible only for viewing certain documents, while others might take part in creating, modifying, and approving these documents in preparation for a larger audience. In search scenarios, on the other hand, it is critical that all end users view only the results of searches for which they have explicit access. All of this remains essentially true regardless of the scope—enterprise or other—of a Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server deployment; however, the challenges facing larger organizations, ...