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SharePoint Also goes by the name of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. SharePoint is a cluster of products that include the following:
- Web browser based collaboration functions
- Search modules and a document-management platform
- Process management modules
SharePoint can be used to host web sites that access:
- Shared workspaces
- Information stores
- Documents
- Host defined applications such as wikis and blogs
All users can manipulate or interact with:
- Web parts
- Lists
- Document libraries
History:
SharePoint is a collection of products that range from the base platform to 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. (If you do not have Windows Server and you are a Vista user, you can use a Bamboo Nation free product to run SharePoint.) Services such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provide additional functionality and features and are licensed accordingly.
SharePoint Products:
SharePoint consists of these components:
- Search Server 2008
- Forms Server 2007
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Standard
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS Enterprise
- Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
- Search Server 2008 Express
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. Microsoft markets these vectors as 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.
SharePoints sites are really ASP.NET 2.0 web sites that use a SQL Server database and that server by IIS. 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. A free variant, Search Server 2008 Express, is also available. 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.