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Using the web content management features

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Using the web content management features

If you have SharePoint Server, either the Standard or the Enterprise Edition, one of the things that you have that's not in SharePoint Foundation is something called the publishing feature. Now, you'll hear this referred to as Web Content Management or WCM or even Enterprise Content Management. In fact, there is a lot of jargon surrounding this idea. Even the word publishing isn't all that helpful, because in SharePoint we have something called a publishing Feature, we have something called a Publishing Portal, we have something called a publishing site. Now, all of this actually makes sense after you understand what publishing is, but it's not that helpful when learning it. Really to understand what this very idea is this thing that's known by many names, we have to step back a few years. Go back to 2002. Microsoft had a product called Content Management Server. This was a Microsoft technology that you could use if you wanted to manage a large-scale website. By large-scale I mean…

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