SharePoint Products and Technologies facilitate collaboration within an organization and with partners and customers.

Using the combined collaboration features of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, users in your organization can easily create, manage, and build their own collaborative Web sites and make them available throughout the organization. Read below to learn more about the relationship between Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Relationship between Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Windows SharePoint Services technology in Windows Server 2003 is an integrated portfolio of collaboration and communication services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall.

You can also use Windows SharePoint Services as a development platform for creating collaboration and information-sharing applications. It is available for download at no additional charge to Windows Server 2003 customers.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is a secure, scalable, enterprise portal server built upon Windows SharePoint Services that you can use to aggregate SharePoint sites, information, and applications in your organization into a single, easy-to-use portal.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 relies on Windows SharePoint Services to provide basic Web hosting and document storage functions, but extends it with additional functions for navigation, search, application integration, and personalization.

• News and Topics
• My Site, with personal and public views
• Information targeted to specific audiences
• Powerful indexing and searching across file shares, Web servers, secure Web servers, Exchange Public Folders, Lotus Notes, and SharePoint sites
• Alerts that notify you when changes are made to relevant information, documents, or applications
• Single sign-on for enterprise application integration
• Integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server, a Windows Server System product designed to help customers efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners.