Use the links in this article to download white papers about Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Many of these white papers are sample chapters from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit (ISBN 0-7356-1881-X), which includes a companion CD-ROM, from Microsoft Press.

 Important   Refer to System Requirements (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123797&clcid=0x409) to obtain updated information about required software and supported configurations for Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Evaluate

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies: Technical Overview    This white paper provides a technical overview of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This paper is intended for information technology professionals, solution developers, and anyone who wants to understand the technical design and terminology changes in the latest version of SharePoint Products and Technologies.

International Features in SharePoint Portal Server 2003    This paper introduces users of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to the international features of SharePoint Portal Server. Topics covered include the level of Unicode and localization support, setup and upgrade, server farm deployments, locale-based formatting, and multilingual portal environments, as well as discussion of search behaviors.

Personalization Services in SharePoint Products and Technologies    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 creates a portal site that knows who you are and what information you care about and work with, thus providing a personal context for users. Based on Web Part Pages technology, SharePoint Portal Server delivers customization and personalization that is flexible, secure, and reliable. SharePoint Portal Server provides a rich set of features focused on ensuring that users have easy access to relevant information from a variety of entry points.

Plan

Planning Your Information Structure Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. In this chapter, we’ll outline the key decision areas that must be addressed before a product server is ever built—specifically, during the architecting and planning phases. You shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the key decision areas are built on the information management features of this product.

SharePoint Portal Server Architecture    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. In this version of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, SharePoint Portal Server, as the server product, works with and builds upon the architecture of Windows SharePoint Services. This chapter focuses on the architectural differences that are found in SharePoint Portal Server and explains the architecture of services that are particular to SharePoint Portal Server.

Architecting SharePoint Products and Technologies for Operating System Topologies   This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. The latest versions of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies have specific requirements for software and for domain membership. Both Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services must be installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and most, but not all, configurations require that the server running either of these applications be a member of a domain. Of course, all features are available if the domain is a Windows Server 2003 domain, but what if a network environment does not have a Windows Server 2003 domain?

Security Architecture for SharePoint Products and Technologies   This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies security is layered on top of, and depends on, the security of underlying products and technologies such as ASP.NET, Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server 2000, and Windows Server 2003. It is vital to implement a layered approach to security, often referred to as defense-in-depth. In this chapter, we will focus on authentication, authorization, code access security, and communication security in SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Information Security Policies for SharePoint Products and Technologies    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. The purpose of this chapter is to outline those types of policies that should be considered when implementing either Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Our purpose is not to write the policies for you or even to give you a sample set of policies from which to work, but rather to highlight the types of policies that will be affected when implementing SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Develop

The SharePoint Portal Server Object Model    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server object model encompasses a number of namespaces—about 50 in total—that provide a way to manipulate SharePoint Portal Server configuration and information. Because the object model is so large, it cannot possibly be fully covered here; however, this chapter will discuss the most important and frequently used namespaces, classes, and methods. It will provide an overview of these components and provide samples useful for administrators.

Deploy

Installing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on a Server with Windows SharePoint Services    Learn how to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on a server that already has Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 installed, and incorporate existing SharePoint sites into the new configuration.

Deploying Medium and Large Server Farms    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. This chapter discusses how to deploy a medium or large server farm. The majority of the chapter consists of step-by-step instructions that can be used as a guide for deploying a farm. This chapter should be viewed as a getting-started guide for building a medium or large server farm. It will cover everything necessary for building both a medium server farm and a larger server farm. It will also contain instructions for how to migrate from a medium farm to a large farm.

Migrating from SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies    Learn about potential problems and solutions to consider when you plan your migration from Microsoft SharePoint Team Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to the next generation of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Upgrading Large Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Intranet Portals to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007     Organizations that are upgrading large enterprise portals from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 require the ability to conduct the migration with minimal impact to dependent business users while ensuring that portal content, taxonomy and design are all maintained and optimized. After the migration, users will expect that their MySites (including all their customizations, links, alerts, documents, etc.) will have been migrated as well. By understanding the implementation details of SharePoint Portal Server (Office 2003 Version) and Office SharePoint Server, organizations can more effectively meet the goals of upgrading large portal and MySite implementations.

Microsoft Outlook 2003 Integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. This chapter discusses the many ways in which Outlook 2003 and SharePoint Products and Technologies work together.

Integrating Exchange Server 2003 with SharePoint Products and Technologies    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. Although Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies does not require any particular mail server, the tightest integration is available with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Web Parts distributed with Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can display a user’s Inbox folder, Tasks folder, a list of upcoming appointments from the Calendar folder, or the contents of any other mailbox folder.

Maintain

Managing SharePoint Portal Server 2003    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. In this chapter, we first will learn how a portal system administrator can make use of and manage features of SharePoint Portal Server. Starting on the Site Settings page of the portal site, we will look at some differences between portal-level security and team site security and the special considerations that should be made when managing portal-level security. We will also cover the management tasks related to the alert feature. We will then look at how to change the default look of the portal site to a customized one by assigning custom logos and custom cascading style sheet files. From there, we will see how to manage portal site content with respect to area pages, the Topic Assistant, and audience targeted links. Finally, we will look at how to manage audience recalculation and show how administrators can manage users’ personal sites.

Managing External Content in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. The tools that we’ll discuss in this chapter focus on both administrative and user- oriented subjects. For administrators, we’ll focus on the creation and management of content sources, search scopes, source groups, and index files. We’ll also discuss ways to craft the result set for your end users, including the use of the thesaurus, the noise word file, keywords, and Best Bets.

Single Sign-On in SharePoint Portal Server 2003    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. By using single sign-on you can centralize information from multiple back-end applications through a single portal that uses application definitions. In addition, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides a programming interface for developers to use and extend this feature.

Disaster Recovery in SharePoint Products and Technologies    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. What do you do when things go wrong? Really, really wrong. You should not wait to ask yourself this question when you are in need of an immediate answer. The most important thing in solving critical problems is to think ahead and record your problem-resolving strategy in a disaster recovery plan. Before you can do that, you must be aware of the problem-solving tools available. This chapter covers operational tasks common in disaster recovery scenarios using the native tools provided by Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. In addition, this chapter discusses how to leverage SQL Server backup and restore processes to safeguard your data in SharePoint Products and Technologies solutions.

Usage Analysis Tools in SharePoint Products and Technologies    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. Usage analysis allows you to track how websites on your server are being used. The Internet Information Services (IIS) log and usage analysis logs from Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server can provide a realistic picture of how a portal site is used in each company. The viewing and managing of these logging mechanisms will be discussed in this chapter.

Standardizing the Port Number for Central Administration Pages    Simplify administration of your server farm by standardizing the port number for the SharePoint Portal Server central administration pages on each server.

Using SharePoint Products and Technologies in Multilingual Scenarios    This paper presents an overview of the benefits of using Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies in multilingual scenarios. It details most of the functionality provided by Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and suggests how this functionality can help you manage multilingual content.

Using Japanese Language Search Features in SharePoint Portal Server 2003    The Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Search (SharePointPSSearch) service contains a Japanese word breaker with features that are unique to the searching and indexing of Japanese documents. Some of these features are new in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Others were included in earlier products and technologies such as SharePoint Portal Server 2001. The new Japanese language features and changes to the existing Japanese language features are documented in this paper. Tips for using the Japanese language features are also included.

Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 to Customize SharePoint Product and Technologies Sites    This is a sample chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. Customizing your SharePoint site using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 can be done without coding, a degree in Web design, experience with XML or XSLT, or an understanding of database technologies. The WYSIWYG authoring environment combined with dynamic Web templates, auto-updating data views, prebuilt Web Parts, and Web connectors and built-in conditional formatting capabilities streamline the Web design and development process. With FrontPage 2003, site administrators and even end users themselves can rapidly extend and customize their SharePoint sites in hours—rather than days or weeks.