Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology in Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to help increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to the information they need.

Built on Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services also provides a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that can flex and scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of your business. Robust administrative controls for managing storage and Web infrastructure give IT departments a cost-effective way to implement and manage a high-performance collaboration environment. With a familiar, Web-based interface and with the ability to work smoothly with everyday tools including those available in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows SharePoint Server is easy to use and can be deployed rapidly.

- Collaborate Easily and Effectively

Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information they need to make more informed decisions and get the job done. Enhancements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 make it easier than ever to share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.

• Provides a single workspace for teams to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions—within the organization and over the extranet.

•Easily author and manage documents, and help to ensure their integrity with enhanced features including the option to require document check-out before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous versions, and the ability to set document-specific security controls.

• Help people and teams stay on task with a variety of communication features that let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, including announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, discussion boards, and RSS.

•Provide creative forums for brainstorming ideas, building knowledge bases, or simply gathering information in an easy-to-edit format with new templates for implementing blogs (also known as weblogs) and wikis (Web sites that can be quickly edited by team members—no special technical knowledge required).

•Stay productive while mobile with enhanced support for offline synchronization through Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007, which enables users to manage document libraries, lists, calendars, contacts, tasks, and discussion boards even offline, and to synchronize changes when reconnected to the network.

- Deploy a Manageable Infrastructure

Deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 increases control over and enhances security of your organization’s data and information resources. Help reduce the dependency of business units on your company’s IT department for site provisioning, implementation, backup, and support. Whether you’re a contributor to a team site, a site owner, or a server administrator, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides exceptional administrative controls for managing content, users, and sites so that individuals and teams can operate efficiently and effectively.

•Increase the security of business information with enhanced administrative controls that help decrease cost and complexity associated with site provisioning, management, support, operations, and backup and restore.

• Give IT better control over your organization’s infrastructure with new and improved services for controlling access to information and setting policies for site creation that enable security controls to be set as deep down as the item level.