General

• Windows SharePoint Services Homepage
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Homepage

• Windows SharePoint Service
  • Microsoft Office Assistance - Windows SharePoint Services Technology
    Contain Trainings & Demos
  • Training: Working with SharePoint document libraries
  • Training: Working with SharePoint picture libraries
  • Training: Managing users and specifying permissions for a Web site based on Windows SharePoint Services technology
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Training Kit

• SharePoint Technology 2003
  • MSDN - Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2003 Technical Articles
  • Article: Deciding When to Deploy Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • Article: Architectural Overview of Windows SharePoint Services
    - SPS 2003 can have multiple site collections in a portal
    - Use IIS 6.0 application pool, each application pool has its own processor and memory resources to provide an isolated set of worker processes
    - Unlike SharePoint Team Service, Windows SharePoint Services does not keep configuration data in the IIS metabase - Configuration Database settings are read-only from end-user virtual servers.
  • Article: Customizing SharePoint Sites and Portals: Part 1
    Basic Customization concept
  • Article: Customizing SharePoint Sites and Portals: Part 2
    More details on creating and editing a site using templates and site definitions
• Windows SharePoint Service
  • Windows SharePoint Services Technology Technical Library (For User)
  • Windows SharePoint Services Technology Deployment Resources (For Administrator)
  • MSDN: Database tables used in a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services topology
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • Article: Branding a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Site: Part 1, Understanding the Use of a Corporate Brand
    - Additional features of SPS over WSS:

    Enterprise search 
    Personalization 
    Personal sites 
    Microsoft Single Sign-On service 
    Site directory 
    User profiles
    

    - Customize Areas: Logo Style Sheet (Look & Feel, Scheme) Templates / Pages (recommend customize Template over Pages) Web Parts Client Side Script
  • Branding a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Site: Part 2, How to Apply Your Own Corporate Brand
• SharePoint Team Service 1.0
  • TechNet SharePoint Team Service Home

• Windows SharePoint Service
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Help
  • Windows SharePoint Services Administrator's Guide
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Language Template Pack
  • list of pre-designed Windows SharePoint Templates from Microsoft
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Help
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide
  • Tips and Tricks for Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
    Learn how to perform a number of basic tasks in a Microsoft SharePointR Portal Server 2003 environment.

• Collutions - Windows SharePoint Services FAQ
• Collutions - SharePoint FAQ
  unofficial FAQ for the microsoft.public.sharepoint.teamservices newsgroup
• Sharepoint Help - Tips for SharePoint Users
• ADVIS SharePoint Resources
• SharePoint University
  A large SharePoint community site

• Windows SharePoint Service
  • There is file upload limitation at Windows SharePoint Service
    • Cannot upload file ~75M in size
      Due to ASP timeout of 10 minutes
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • 825505 - Programs That Cannot Coexist with Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
    Microsoft Site Server (any version)
    Also these if use the backward-compatible document library:
    Microsoft Exchange Server (any version)
    Microsoft Office Server Extensions
• SharePoint Team Service 1.0
  • Scheduled backup won't run:
    Newsgroup article on STS backup problem
    ...you have to do first a manual backup where you can enter the path for the backup file before you setup the automatic backup which will use this path.

• Windows SharePoint Service
  • Custom installation of Windows SharePoint Service
    • stsv2.exe /c /t:d:\temp to extract the setup files
    • setupsts.exe /datadir="d:\sharepoint\\" to install SharePoint with data put to d:\sharepoint\MSSQL$SHAREPOINT
      Note the \\ at the end is needed.
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • Install SharePoint Portal Server 2003 without Database Engine
    • Install SQL Server 2000 w/SP3+
    • Install SPS without Database Engine
  • Installing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on a Server with Windows SharePoint Services
    There are some incompatibility between existing WSS and SPS 2003
• SharePoint Team Service 1.0
  • Backing Up and Restoring Data
    at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\50\bin\
    backup: owsadm -o backupdb -p 80 -f [backup file]
    restore: owsadm -o restoredb -p 80 -f [backup file]
    
  • Migrating Databases and Sites