February 28, 2007

Pamela Williams

Windows SharePoint Services is an enabling technology that is included in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. It provides easy access to the people, documents, and information.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 relies on the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology to provide a consistent, familiar

framework for lists and libraries, site administration, and site customization.

Any features that are available in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are also available in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

How are Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services related?

SharePoint offers: Collaboration & Social ComputingCollaboration

Social Computing aka Web 2.0

Allow Teams to communicate Through Collaborative Workspaces.

Tie Organizations together Through Portals.

Gives organizations the tools to deliver a wide-range of social computing capabilities within their existing workspace.

Reduce Cost and Complexity for IT.

Is based on creating social conventions and contexts online using software and technology.

The social computing tools are delivered as part of the collaboration infrastructure .

It is integrated by design with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help reduce costs and complexity while increasing security.

RequirementsOperating System Internet

Connection Windows Server 2003 SP1 or Windows

Server 2003 x64 or Windows Small Business Server 2003; .NET Framework 3.0

Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 with common files

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service, World Wide Web service.

Broadband connection

128k bps or greater, for download

activation of products

For Windows systems: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later; Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 or later

UNIX/Linux systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Netscape Navigator 7.2 or later

Mac OS/X systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Safari 2.0 or later

Web Browser

Object Model

XML – New UI Customization

Development Tools

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Extranet,Internet, or Intranet

Windows SharePoint Server Configuration for a Stand-Alone Server Environment

Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime Engine

Visual Studio 2005

Designer for Windows Workflow Foundation

ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.NET Forms

Browser

InfoPath 2007

SharePoint Designer 2007Office SharePoint Server 2007

InfoPath Forms Services Excel Services

Slide LibrariesProject Server 2007

Audit History

InfoPath 2007 Forms

2007 Office System Client Applications & Technologies

Word 2007

Excel 2007

PowerPoint 2007InfoPath 2007

Outlook 2007Project 2007

ASP.NET 2.0Web Page

Windows SharePoint Services Site Template

ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part

Versioning

Content TypesInformation Rights

Management

Records Repository

Enterprise Search

Business Data Catalog

Records Repository

Role-Based Views

Information Rights Management

Groove 2007

Windows Rights Management and Active Directory

Windows Rights Management and Active Directory

Communicator 2007

Web Browser

Single Sign-On

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for OfficeCustom Task Panes,

Ribbon Customization, Outlook Form Region

Support, Server Document Class

Custom Workflows and

Web Pages

Custom Web Parts and

Master Pages

Custom Site Templates

UI, Object Modelor XML

Open XML File Format

CustomizationUsing XML

XML, C#, Visual Basic .NET

Windows SharePoint

Services List

ConnectionTo LOB Data

Windows SharePoint Services Site Template

Active Directory

Config Database and Content Database

Visio 2007

Office CommunicationsServer 2007

SQL Server 2005or WMSDE Database

Exchange Server 2007

ASP.NET 2.0HTTP Requests

HTML, .ASPX Pages

Policy

XML

OLEDB

Events

Object Model

SOAP

Events

SOAP

Object Model

Office Groove Server 2007

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Second Edition

Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Second EditionWindows SharePoint

Services Project Type, Templates for Main

Entities, Deploy/Debug

Access 2007

Surface LOB data

Website and Web Part Framework

Office CommunicationsServer 2007

2007 Microsoft Office System Logical Architecture

SharePoint Services Demo

SharePoint Technologies pricingMicrosoft Office SharePoint

Server(MOSS 2007)

Office SharePoint Server 2007 $4424

Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard $8213

Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Enterprise $57,670

Office Forms Server 2007 $4424

Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites $40,943

Office Forms Server 2007 for Internet sites $22,118

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)-

Pricing of Apptix hosting company

Bronze- 100 users, 500MB, monthly contract fee 39.95 or Annual contract fee $383.52.

Silver- 500 users, 1GIG, monthly contract fee 59.95 or Annual contract fee $575.52.

Gold- 100o users, 2GIG, monthly contract fee 99.95 or Annual contract fee $959.52.

Platinum- Unlimited users, 5GIG, monthly contract fee $149.95 or Annual contract fee $1439.52.

Pros Cons1. Cost for the Services are

cheap.2. Has rich out-of-the-box

functionality3. Incremental deployment

options4. Easy and cost-effective

extensibility5. Integration with familiar tools6. Organization-wide standards

1. Enterprise intranet portals are complex.

2. Has many challenges for large organizations.

3. Cost for the Servers are pricey.

4. Training curve.

Free SharePoint Services evaluation can be downloaded at:

https://www.sharepointsite.com/hosted_sharepoint/

Free SharePoint Server evaluation can be downloaded at:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9CEBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en

Currently Microsoft is offering 12 Free SharePoint Computer based Trainings at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR102146081033.aspx

Support documentation: http://support.microsoft.com/ph/11373

Templates can be found at:http://www.wssdemo.com/application/default.aspx

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History Extra

1997 – 2007

1997- Exchange Server (version 5.5), the messaging platform was the product of choice.

1998- Microsoft announced that the next Exchange or Platinum and Tahoe which were combined.

1999- A toolkit originally called the Digital Dashboard Starter Kit was released as a free download.

2000- Microsoft finally released Windows Server 20002001- Microsoft acquired content management vendor

nCompass, and re-branded the product Content Management Server 2001 (CMS ).

History1997 – 2007

Continued…

2003- Microsoft released a new version of Office 2003 and STS was renamed Windows SharePoint Services (WSS).

2004- CMS and SPS finally joined together as the two product groups were merged .

2005- Microsoft acquired Groove, a peer-to-peer (P2P) team-based collaboration product.

2006- they acquired ProClarity. 2007- Microsoft partners added wikis, RSS to SharePoint