Try the "Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Intranets
"

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7cdc1f2d-f550-49e0-9b74-318da11ba1b4&DisplayLang=en

And the SharePoint Tips & Tricks document:

http://www.microsoft.com/Office/sharepoint/prodinfo/sharepoint_tips.mspx

Here's a good document on SharePoint and Office integration:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/sharepoint/prodinfo/officeintegration.mspx

Here's a good demo of Areas:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=27200

Microsoft Also provides the following once you register for free with the partner programme:

New Project Guide: SharePoint Portal Server 2003
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=752626
Use this simple, step-by-step guide to deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 for small and midsize businesses to help customers' systems run more efficiently.

Top Issues
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Supported Upgrade Paths for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=821460&product=sppsvr2003

There Is Not an Option to Restore Databases to the Original Server in the
SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823267&product=sppsvr2003

"Virtual Server Is Running FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions" Message When
You Run Windows SharePoint Services Setup or When You Try to Extend the
Virtual Server with Windows SharePoint Services
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823378&product=sppsvr2003

Events
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/webcasts/default.mspx

SPS webpage can detect you have installed the Office 2003 and run local dll to implement some SPS function, e.g. mutil-file upload only works when you have office 2003 installed.

Integration with Office XP is gone.

You will get guys telling you that you can integrate with SPSv2 if you install a backwards compatible document library - but that’s really just putting a bit of SPS 2001 on the server.

Believe me, check-in, check-out, which are themselves very basic, are not available from inside Office XP, or even from the context menu in Windows Explorer.

The ONLY option you have is to use the web interface to check-in or check-out.

Burhan Loqueman

SharePoint Portal server adds the following functionality:

Search
Single Signon
Windows SharePoint Services aggregation and management (sites Directory)
Categorization
Scalailability
Compatibility with SPS 1
Enterprise Integration with SAP, Great Plains (and other I can't remember off hand)
Enterprise connectivity web parts (exchange connection web parts, etc) The ability to index content sources (content that is not stored on the
SharePoint Server)

My Site feature which has 2 views so a person can have access to personal information on their site, but other users can only see public information
about that user.

James Edelen

When people first start working with SharePoint v2 a common reaction is: I can't figure out the difference between SPS and STS anymore. At the recent MVP summit in Redmond we actually got to ask this question to the SharePoint product team. Rest assured,that's the way it's meant to be they told us. They made a lot of effort to make sure STS and SPS very much look alike in v2. Of course, there are still differences. You should see SPS as the umbrella under which various team sites fall. For the convenience we've listed the extra features in SPS:

Hierarchical navigation and category services
Publishing and Alerts
Search
Line of business integration and single sign on (SSO)
Profiling system
MySite
Site registry

We won't explain the features at this point, this is for a later time. Hope this helps!

Nikander Bruggeman
Margriet Bruggeman