Definitions and Descriptions related to SharePoint Server 2007

1. What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and how it is related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)?
WSS is a solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. This Service is delivered along with Windows Server 2003 and has to be enables exclusively. This also provides an additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications and also serves as a platform for application development.
MOSS 2007 is build on WSS 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.

2. What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server connects people, teams, and knowledge across Business processes.
SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities.
It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilities end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization and searching.
SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layouts as well as through audience targeting.

3. What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.

4. What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes—facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.

5. What is Office SharePoint Server 2007 designed for?
Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators, and application developers. is designed

6. What are the main benefits for SharePoint Server 2007?
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.

1. Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar, everyday applications.
2. Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners across organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services–driven solutions.
3. Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the facilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, access to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can be personalized.
4. Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks.
5. Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office Business Applications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease of deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box application services, developers can build richer applications with less code.