MOSS intranets, extranets and portals are the terminology frequently used to describe common SharePoint projects. Many companies choose to use MOSS as their corporate intranet solution to collaborate between employees, cross-departmentally, and amongst dispersed office locations. A customer or employee facing MOSS extranet is also a common initiative – for example many companies choose the structured view and presentation capabilties of SharePoint over e-mailing key customer or project data over and over again. A MOSS portal suggests deeper customization to display data in the form of a dashboard or data visualization aid such as charts. MOSS portals are typically a more advanced project with ownership at the executive level.
Common intranet, extranet and portal scenarios include:
| Support Portal | Sales Force Intranet | HR Extranet | Training Intranet |
| Stores knowledge base, wiki artciles on products and services and can personalize displayed information based on associated user attributes including company, purchased products. | Store all the sales playbook information your sales force needs to stay on top of their leads and customer acquisition activities. Track leads, opportunities and more through a centralized web site. | Manage requisition, candidate information, hiring and interview processes while centralizing standard benefit information for all employees with a human resources extranet. | Create structured e-learning sites with static and dynamic content including Microsoft SilverLight videos. Track which employees view what training materials and for how long. |