Microsoft Corp.'s Site Server 3.0 includes everything Web site administrators need to manage their largest sites but the Web server itself. It wins our World Class award on the strength and breadth of its excellent administration and reporting tools.
Publishing involves support for a formal submission, approval and deployment cycle for Web pages.
The delivery side offers searching tools, personalization capabilities, push services and knowledge management. Configuration and management appear slightly better than in Site Server 2.0, and some operations, such as analysis, are definitely faster in 3.0. Reporting and management features are more polished and comprehensive. Heavy breathing Perhaps the biggest change in Site Server 3.0 is the Knowledge Management system. At its heart is the search engine, which gathers information into catalogs.