Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server is an intricate document management system. In addition to dynamic document management features, SharePoint Portal Server offers a search portal for locating documents. SharePoint Portal Server does not embed information into documents permanently. Rather, it indexes the metadata properties of documents that are admitted to the Server.

However, it can locate external documents based on their metadata properties. Metadata Server, an enterprise-level solution from HiSoftware, can maximize the benefits of fielded searching within SharePoint Portal Server. Metadata Server manages metadata across an enterprise, runs with minimal user interaction, and can update document metadata on a regular schedule. A dynamic metadata solution, Metadata Server offers features based on inheritance, tokens, content classification, and automatic keyword generation. When used in conjunction with SharePoint Portal Server, you can locate 100 percent of your Microsoft Office and Web-based documents.

This document has been created so that users of the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server can benefit from using metadata and an enterprise-wide metadata schema. A metadata schema is the standard set of meta tags for a document collection.
The procedures described in this document show you how to
1. add a Content Source to the Portal
2. configure an enterprise-wide metadata schema with Metadata Server from HiSoftware

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