What is Windows Sharepoint Services?
Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology included in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that enables organizations and business units of all sizes to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to documents and information they need. With a familiar, Web-based interface and close integration with everyday tools including the Microsoft Office system of productivity programs, Windows SharePoint Services is easy to use and can be deployed rapidly. Users can create workspaces and then publish, store, share, and keep track of information, workflow, and documents.
Built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services also gives organizations a cost-effective foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that can scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of your business. Robust administrative controls for managing storage and Web infrastructure give IT departments a cost-effective way to implement and manage a high-performance collaboration environment.
Why should I consider using Windows SharePoint Services for my organization?
Efficient collaboration: Help your employees and teams to stay connected and productive by providing access to the people, documents, and information they need.
Rapid deployment, ease of use: Deploy collaboration applications quickly that are easy to use through integration with familiar productivity tools such as the Microsoft Office system.
Manageable infrastructure: Manage the security of your organization’s information resources by deploying a scalable storage infrastructure with powerful administration services and controls.
Robust foundation platform for Web-based applications: Increase business process efficiency by creating Web applications and workflow scenarios on a cost-effective, extensible platform.
What’s new in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0?
Improvements to collaboration workspaces: SharePoint sites now offer e-mail and directory integration, alerts, RSS publishing, templates for building blogs (also known as weblogs) and wikis (Web sites that can be quickly edited by team members—no special technical knowledge required), event and task tracking, improved usability, enhanced site navigation, and more.
Enhancements to content storage: SharePoint lists and libraries now provide per-item security for better data control and integrity, a recycle bin, and enhanced flexibility for storing more types of content. Row and column capacity has also been increased, as has retrieval speed. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 can be easily integrated with smart client tools. In particular, close integration with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides offline access to events, contacts, discussions, tasks, and documents.
Easier provisioning of workspaces: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides more sophisticated and flexible security, as well as greater control over security settings and permissions.
A more robust foundation for Web applications: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides greater flexibility for customization and development of Web-based services and applications built on the Windows SharePoint Services platform.
What is the relationship between Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007?
Windows SharePoint Services, formerly named SharePoint Team Services, a versatile technology in Windows Server 2003. In addition to its collaborative features, Windows SharePoint Services also exposes platform services and a common framework for document storage and management, as well as search, workflow, rights management, administration, and deployment features. These services provide the foundation for building scalable business applications.
Office SharePoint Server 2007, an integrated suite of easy-to-use server applications that help people and teams improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Office SharePoint Server 2007 connects sites, people, and business processes—facilitating knowledge sharing by offering ready-to-go, enterprise-wide functionality for records management, search, workflows, portals, personalized sites, and more. Office SharePoint Server 2007 extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing highly flexible organization and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by making it possible for teams to publish information to the entire organization.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007, which provides tools for customizing Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites, and for creating reporting tools and application templates without writing new code or deploying new code on your servers.
What is Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 requirement?
Operating System
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.
Single-Box Installation
Server with a processor speed of at least 2.5 GHz; RAM capacity of 1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended; disk space up to 2 GB for installation minimum, 5 GB or more minimum for data.
Farm Deployment
Web server with a processor speed of at least 2.5 GHz and RAM capacity of 1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended; SQL Server 2000 SP3 (or later) or SQL 2005 system with dual processors of 2.5 GHz and 2 GB RAM minimum; disk space up to 2 GB for installation minimum, 5 GB or more minimum for data.
Internet Connection
Broadband connection, 128k bps or greater, for download and activation of products.
Web Browser
Level 1 Web Browsers:
Level 1 Web browsers take advantage of advanced features provided by ActiveX controls and provide the most complete user experience. Level 1 browsers offer full functionality on all SharePoint sites, including the Central Administration Web site.
Level 2 Web Browsers:
Level 2 Web browsers provide basic functionality, so that users can both read and write in SharePoint sites and perform site administration. However, because ActiveX controls are supported only in Level 1 browsers, and due to the functionality differences within different browsers, a different user experience might be provided and there could be some variances from the user experience from the Level 1 browsers.
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For Windows systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Mozilla 1.7 or later; Netscape Navigator 8.1 or later
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For UNIX/Linux systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Netscape Navigator 7.2 or later
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For Mac OS/X systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Safari 2.0 or later
