Summary

This chapter presents an overview of the advantages of using Windows 2000 security features with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001. It reviews the elements of Windows 2000 security that allow you to secure access to content on your corporate portal and the role-based security model for SharePoint Portal Server. It presents an overview of SharePoint Portal Server security architecture, including the publishing model and provides suggestions for securing content for search and content aggregation.

SharePoint Portal Server delivers a powerful and flexible security infrastructure that puts significant new capabilities into the hands of content experts. SharePoint Portal Server extends the distributed security model supported by Windows 2000. With role-based security, SharePoint Portal Server simplifies content management by allowing you to distribute administrative tasks to content owners. SharePoint Portal Server associates users with roles according to tasks. SharePoint Portal Server modifies access to a specific document based on the state of the document. The roles create a more flexible and dynamic security model.