Windows SharePoint Services

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is a free add one of Windows Server 2003. It is about an engine of Groupware offering basic functionalities of Portail Web and Intranet making it possible to manage a multitude of sites, within a company for example. Thus, through site WSS, team goes to be able to convey information such as planning, in the form of Bar chart, but also to manage different versions from document, since a document has a cycle of validation which is clean for him, before being published.

The SharePoint services are mainly used by Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Office Project Server.

WSS is related to a database which will be used as reference frame for all the data:

  • of the data of configuration of the farm (database of configuration);
  • of the data of contents (which will contain the collection of sites, contents of the lists, documentation data bases etc).

In order to be able to use WSS under Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, it is necessary to go to download the extensions necessary. Thus of new titles will appear in the menus of the software, allowing in particular the creation of WebParts.

Functionalities

WSS has the following functionalities:

  • Création of pages thanks to Web leaves S developed in ASP.NET;
  • Creation of Web sites or under-sites related to teams or projects;
  • Control system of Version S of the stored documents;
  • basic Search engine;
  • Storage at the same time of the document and the Metadatum S in a Database (WSS 2.0);
  • possible Use of Metadatum S of the Dublin Core.

Pre-necessary

Sites WSS are created via ASP.NET and are lodged by Internet Information Services 6.0, by using a database Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) to store the data.

Versions

Version 1.0

The first version , named SharePoint TEAM Services (STS), left at the same time as Office XP and was provided with Microsoft Frontpage. STS functioned under Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP. The only common point with SharePoint Portal Server 2001 was graphic elements.

Version 2.0

The Version 2.0 , Windows SharePoint Services, was marketed as an update of Sharepoint TEAM Services but it was acted in fact of an entirely reconsidered application. The principal difference is at the level of the storage system of the documents: Sharepoint TEAM Services stored the documents in a traditional way and preserved Métadonnée S in a database whereas Windows Sharepoint Services stores the documents AND the metadata in a database.

The versionnage of document was not managed by Sharepoint TEAM Services whereas Windows Sharepoint Services manages a basic versionnage.

Version 3.0

The Version 3.0 is available since the end of 2006. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (of the continuation Office 2007) is entirely based on WSS 3.0. A license WSS 3.0 comes with each copy from Windows Server 2003 (the application remains nevertheless to be downloaded on the site of Microsoft). Windows Server 2008 (code name Windows Longhorn) included WSS 3.0 in the list of the packages of origin to the installation.

This version brings its batch of new functionalities of which:

  • Gestion of Workflow based on technology Windows Workflow Foundation
  • Gestion of the major and minor versions
  • Abonnement with flows RSS
  • a list can now receive emails
  • Nouveaux templates of Community site Wiki and Weblog
  • Edition of Workflow and user interface since Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007

The technology used by this new grinding is ASP.NET 2.0.

External bonds

  • the page Windows SharePoint Services on the site of Microsoft

  • Latest BUZZ butt SharePoint
  • Free Trial off Windows SharePoint Services
  • Sharepoint 2007 Screenshots and more…
  • Windows SharePoint Services page At Microsoft
  • Deploying the Windows SharePoint Services
  • Windows SharePoint Services Administrator' S Guides
  • WSS FAQ
  • WSS Demo
  • SHAREPOINTCOMMUNITY.COM
  • The Boiler Room - Mark Kruger' S SharePoint Blog
  • SharePoint Bloggers
  • Free SharePoint Web Shares
  • Point2Share
  • AvePoint: SharePoint Backup, Recovery, and Archiving Software
  • Offline SharePoint The offline SharePoint community (blog)
  • WPPackagerSetup.exe (.exe)
  • msdn.microsoft.com article

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