What Am I Upto
Recently started working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. By the way Microsoft has released MOSS 2010 beta edition for testing purposes and thats going to be my next project after this. Anyways while working with MOSS I came through some acts that I didnt know before, maybe you already know it, but I didn't. For instance I didn't know that there was something called Windows SharePoint Services which was free and different from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Although it has basic features but its very workable and implementable for small businesses. They can definitely take advantage of it.
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is included as part of Windows 2003 Server whereas Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a separate product. If you have a Windows Server 2003 license then you can download WSS from Microsoft's website and install it on your server.
WSS doesn't have its own licensing model, its controlled through Windows Server Licenses whereas MOSS has its own licensing model that has both Server side and client accesses licenses.
WSS provides the underlying platform on which MOSS is built on. MOSS includes all the features of WSS and adds its own set of components as services.
Additional features that are part of MOSS includes:
Collaboration
Social networking web parts - Colleague Web Part, Colleague Tracking Web Part, In Common Web Part etc.
Enterprise Portal
MySite, RSS, Site Directory, User Profile, Audience Targeting
Enterprise Search
Enterprise content sources- Files shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases, more relevant results, people search, business data search.
For complete list of various features in different versions of SharePoint you can visit the link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101758691033.aspx.
