Summary

You can use Office XP and SharePoint Portal Server to provide a powerful and rich portal. This total portal solution centralizes information so that users can search for and share documents regardless of location or format.

Office XP and SharePoint Portal Server simplify Web publishing and content creation. As a content development tool, Office XP takes advantage of the enterprise-wide search engine, powerful document management features, and easy portal customizability of SharePoint Portal Server.

By using SharePoint Portal Server, you can take existing reports and other data from Office XP or existing Web pages and customize the dashboard site to suit your own needs. By using Office XP, customers can share and publish information in a dashboard site through Web Parts. With the use of other tools, such as Visual Studio, you can further extend your dashboard site to encompass other content.

This chapter presents the advantages of using SharePoint Portal Server to create a corporate portal. It reviews how Microsoft Office XP can help you customize the default dashboard site to create your own custom portal solution and how SharePoint Team Services can add further value to your portal solution. It provides suggestions for using Office XP, SharePoint Team Services, and SharePoint Portal Server to deploy a total portal solution that facilitates finding, creating, and sharing all your mission-critical content from a Web browser or Office.