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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Is another name for SharePoint. SharePoint is a cluster of products that include the following:
- Search modules and a document-management platform
- Web browser based collaboration functions
- Process management modules
SharePoint may be used to host web sites that access:
- Documents
- Host defined applications such as wikis and blogs
- Shared workspaces
- Information stores
All users can manipulate or interact with:
- Web parts
- Document libraries
- Lists
Background:
SharePoint refers to a base platform and a variety of services. The platform is Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), which is included with Windows Server and available as a free download for those with Windows Server licenses. (Vista users can use a helper application from Bamboo Nation to allow them to run SharePoint without having to have Windows Server installed.) Services such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provide additional functionality and features and are licensed accordingly.
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SharePoint consists of these parts:
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
- Search Server 2008 Express
- Search Server 2008
- Forms Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Standard
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Enterprise
SharePoint, as a collection of technologies, is not intended to simply replace a full file server or to be a single use solution. Rather, SharePoint provides a variety of solutions to numerous problems in the business world. These various solutions that SharePoint provides fall under three different heads: Collaboration, Processes, and People.
Users access SharePoint through a web browser. While all browsers are supported, only Internet Explorer is fully integrated and able to utilize the full functionality of a SharePoint Solution.
SharePoint sites are functionally ASP.NET 2.0 web applications, which are served using IIS and use a SQL Server database as a data storage back end. All site content data, such as items in document libraries and lists, are stored within an SQL database named by default as “WSS_Content_ID”.
Microsoft Search Server:
Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft. It builds on the search capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architectural underpinnings with the Windows Search platform for both the querying engine as well as the indexer. MOSS search provides the ability to search metadata attached to documents.
Microsoft has made Microsoft Search Server available as Search Server 2008, released March 2008. There is a free variation available. It is called Search Server 2008. The exprss edition is limited to a stand-alone installation and cannot be scaled out to a cluster.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer:
Administrators can customize SharePoint sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. It is a free WYSIWYG HTML Editor that replaces Microsoft FrontPage.