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Updated: July 10, 2020 (April 2, 2007)

  Analyst Report Archived

SharePoint 2007 Tweaks Portals, Administration

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1,447 wordsTime to read: 8 min

New templates and Web Parts for portal sites and improved administration strengthen SharePoint Server as a platform for corporate portals. Corporate portals, Web sites that provide organized access to corporate information, remain an important way to deliver applications and data to employees and external business partners. However, upgrading large, customized existing SharePoint portals to the new version will be complicated, existing hardware may need to be upgraded, and customers might require help from systems integrators for planning, customization, migration, and training.

Fast Portal Creation, Improved Personalization

SharePoint Server 2007 does not introduce sweeping changes in its features for portal sites-most major changes focus on the product’s new functional areas, such as records management and business intelligence. Nonetheless, several incremental improvements in portal features and administration tools could convince holdouts to adopt the product and existing customers to upgrade. New site templates will speed creation of portal sites, improved personalization will help target site content to different groups of users, and new administration features address shortcomings in SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003.

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Updated: July 11, 2020 (March 12, 2007)

  Analyst Report

SharePoint 2007 Tweaks Portals, Administration

My Atlas / Analyst Reports

2,050 wordsTime to read: 11 min

New templates and Web Parts for portal sites and improved administration strengthen SharePoint Server (formerly SharePoint Portal Server) as a platform for corporate portals. Corporate portals, Web sites that provide organized access to corporate information, remain an important way to deliver applications and data to employees and external business partners. However, upgrading large, customized existing SharePoint portals to the new version will be complicated, existing hardware may need to be upgraded, and customers might require help from systems integrators for planning, customization, migration, and training.

What Is SharePoint Server?

Among other functions, SharePoint Server is Microsoft’s strategic platform for the creation and management of corporate portals. Although the term is broad, corporate portals are typically Web sites that give workers an entry point to corporate information and applications. For example, a corporate portal could provide access to (or even house) a self-service human resources application that helps employees look for new jobs in the organization and allows managers to add or update job descriptions.

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