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title: "what is microsoft sharepoint portal server?"  
description: "what is microsoft sharepoint portal server?"  
author: "Rajesh Goswami"  
published: 2010-10-19  
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# what is microsoft sharepoint portal server?

**Microsoft SharePoint** Server is a Microsoft proprietary software product build on the ASP.NET framework. SharePoint Server works with Microsoft IIS web server to produce sites intended for collaboration, file sharing, social networking and web publishing. SharePoint server farms can host web sites, portals, intranets, extranets, Internets; web content management systems, search engine, wikis, blogs, social networking, business intelligence, workflow as well as providing a framework for web application development.SharePoint is a web application platform in the Microsoft Office server suite. Launched in 2001,[3] SharePoint combines various functions which are traditionally separate applications: intranet, extranet, content management, document management, personal cloud, enterprise social networking, enterprise search, business intelligence,\

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### Answer by Anonymous User

**Microsoft SharePoint** Server is a Microsoft proprietary software product build on the ASP.NET framework. SharePoint Server works with Microsoft IIS web server to produce sites intended for collaboration, file sharing, social networking and web publishing. SharePoint server farms can host web sites, portals, intranets, extranets, Internets; web content management systems, search engine, wikis, blogs, social networking, business intelligence, workflow as well as providing a framework for web application development.SharePoint is a web application platform in the Microsoft Office server suite. Launched in 2001,[3] SharePoint combines various functions which are traditionally separate applications: intranet, extranet, content management, document management, personal cloud, enterprise social networking, enterprise search, business intelligence,\


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