It is suitable for small to medium scale projects. WSS allows small organizations to set up and host internal web sites and spaces. The setup and deployment is uncomplicated, and there is little to no assistance needed from IT professionals. An individual with basic knowledge will suffice. | MOSS builds on top of WSS and adds additional components such as enhanced search, My Sites, Business Data Connector, Excel Services, and other features. Although MOSS sits on top of the WSS foundation, it has many feature bonuses. The additional functions may prove to become beneficial for larger scoped organizations and projects
it may take a bit more expertise from an IT authority to set it up effectively. |
It also serves as a platform for application development. Including such IT resources as portals, team workspaces, e-mail, presence awareness, and Web based conferencing, Windows SharePoint Services enables users to locate distributed information quickly and efficiently, as well as connect to and work with others more productively | Moss also offers My Sites, which are individual minisites that can be set up to show who in your company you're connected to, what your tasks and skills are, your contact information, and more. MOSS 2007 is the portal system, comparable to SharePoint Portal Server 2003. It brings a wealth of built-in functionality and interoperability to a company's intranet over and above the functions of |
WSS is a collaboration platform, primary used for sharing and managing information and documents via a web site. The following are the most essential features: The following are the most essential features: - Site provisioning – WSS acts as a site provisioning engine that simplifies the process of creating new web sites. These sites can be provisioned via site templates or site definitions
- Document management – WSS provides support for document checkout before editing, the ability to view revisions to documents and restore to previous versions.
- Web Parts Infrastructure – web parts are special controls which can be added to certain areas of a web page (Web Part Zones). These controls enable end users to modify the content, appearance, and behavior of Web pages directly from a browser.
- Integration with Word, Excel, Access, Outlook - users can directly open a document from the server, without the need to download it first.
- Wikis, Blogs – wikis are supported as a site template, which allows you to create new pages quickly and easily, provides automatic linking and WYSIWYG editor. Blogs are supported as a site template as well, which provides features for article posting, reader comments and RSS feeds.
- Email integration – document libraries, discussion boards, calendars, and announcements can be configured to send emails upon new postings.
- Limited search support – WSS is is limited to showing results from the site and all of its subsites.
- Basic workflows support – you can create workflows, but you will need external tools like Visual Studio to do so. WSS is just a container that executes your workflow.
- Mobile devices support – the information is rendered using simplified text format.
- Server Farm – if you need high scalability, you can install WSS in a server farm mode which means that several machines will run the stateless presentation layer and all of them will be connected to the same SQL Server database.
- Forums - Team Discussions, replacement for team e-mail discussions
- Task and issue management
- Presence and communication - Knowing who is online and how to get hold of them
- WSS 3.0 also introduces Content Types, which are a great way to manage different types of documents, templates and metadata
- All standard DMS functionality is out-of-the-box, including version control, check-in/out and the ability (linking with Outlook 2007) to take documents offline.
- You can create RSS feeds and set up alerts to notify you when content changes on a site. Version control, task notification and alerts all come with WSS 3.0
| Interesting bits that MOSS 2007 has over and above WSS 3.0 (Windows Sharepoint Services) : - User Profiles support - Allows each user to store profile information
- Site Manager - Manage Navigation, Security and look and feel with drag an drop functionality
- Enterprise Search Tools - numerous tools to search Sharepoint Sites and Portals across entire enterprises
- Business Data Catalog - The Business Data Catalog (BDC) tightly integrates external data, providing access to external data residing within other business applications, and enabling the display of, and interaction with external data
- Business data search - Search data residing in your business applications using the BDC (See Above)
- Business Data Web Parts - Used for viewing lists, entities, and related information retrieved through the Business Data Catalog
- Business document workflow support - Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications
- Retention and auditing policies - Allows customized information management policies to control retention period, expiration, and auditing
- Browser-based forms - Integration with InfoPath, allows integration on to SharePoint of created forms and surveys.
- Integrated, flexible spreadsheet publishing - Allows information workers to easily choose what they want to share with others and determine how others can interact with published spreadsheets.
- Share, manage, and control spreadsheets - Provides access to spreadsheet data and analysis through server-calculated, interactive spreadsheets from a Web browser. Can help to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents, such as financial models, and audits their usage.
- Web-based business intelligence using Excel Services - Allows spreadsheets to be broadly and easily shared. Fully interactive, data-bound spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views can be created as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard.
- Data Connection Libraries - Document Libraries storing ODCs (Office Data Connections), Making one single location for all data connections.
- Business Data actions - Easily create actions that open Web pages, display the user interfaces of other business applications, launch InfoPath forms, and perform other common tasks.
- Integrated business intelligence dashboards - Rich, interactive BI dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built-in Web parts, Excel spreadsheets, Reporting Services, or a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts.
- Report Center - Provides consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connections.
- Key performance indicators - A KPI web Part can connect to Analysis Services, Excel Spreadsheets, SharePoint Lists, or manual entered data.
- Notification service - Improved allowing workflow users to receive emails by default, and improved triggering and filtering
- Single Sign-On (SSO) - Allows the User to log onto a variety of applications with a single user name and password, therefore integrating back office applications, and helps pre-population with integration to the Profile part of MOSS 2007.
- Social Networking Part - Connect to Public My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests
- Personal Site Support - Allows Users to create Personal Web Sites
- Content syndication - Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site.
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