Hi all,
With the creation of four new newsgroups dedicated to Sharepoint technologies on Microsoft news server (NNTP Server "news.microsoft.com" or
"msnews.microsoft.com") (see the post of Lawrence Liu), the arrival of Office 2007 Server line with the melting of two products and other new products, a small
summarization grow on. This post resumes the different guidelines already prescribed by a lot of posters and try to summarize the different technologies.
| Acronym |
Name |
Year |
Comments |
OS |
Access to site |
| STS |
Sharepoint Team Services |
2001 |
Allow creation of collaborative team sites with document libraries, announces, tasks... This first product based on ASP, SQL Server and a NTFS storage for documents is the parent of WSS. |
Windows 2000, XP |
Link |
| SPS 2001 |
Sharepoint Portal Server 2001 |
2001 |
Division Portal, this 1st version is based on ADP with a storage system on Web Storage System (Exchange engine) and documents portal oriented. |
Windows 2000 Server |
Link |
| CMS 2001 |
Content Management Server 2001 |
2001 |
Product based on ASP and SQL Server allowing the quickening of intranet web sites development with content management functionalities. |
Windows 2000 Server |
Link |
| CMS 2002 |
Content Management Server 2002 |
2002 |
Product based on ASP .NET and SQL Server 2000 allowing the quickening of intranet web sites development with content management functionalities. |
Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server |
Link |
| WSS |
Windows Sharepoint Services |
2003 |
Evolution of STS, this service of Windows 2003 Server takes over a part of SPS 2001 functionalities to offer a
collaborative sites and document management based on ASP .NET, SQL Server 2000/2005. |
Windows 2003 Server |
Link |
| SPS 2003 |
Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 |
2003 |
Intranet corporate portal, this application is built on top of WSS to aggregate a Sharepoint sites and offer portal functionalities such as
news, sites directory, profiling with audiency, Single Sign On... |
Windows 2003 Server |
Link |
| WSS v3 |
Windows Sharepoint Services v3 |
2006 |
Last version of collaborative team sites, this product which will be released at the end of year keep the same philosophy than WSS and improve functionalities. |
Windows 2003 Server, Vista Server |
Link |
| MOSS 2007 |
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 |
2006 |
This solution of Intranet and Internet portal is the merging of SPS 2003 and Content Management Server 2002 and refer to WSS v3. It offers a lot of new fucntionalities such as Excel Services,
Infopath Server, Business Data Catalog, Key Performance Indicator... |
Windows 2003 Server, Vista Server |
Link |
For all new post in newsgroups, thank you to prefix your title with [STS], [SPS 2001], [WSS], [SPS 2003], [WSS v3], [MOSS 2007]. There
are several objectives :
| Name |
Language |
Comments |
Access in web mode |
| microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver |
english |
related to SPS (2001 et 2003) |
Link |
| microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices |
english |
related to WSS |
Link |
| microsoft.public.sharepoint.general |
english |
new - related to general aspects of Sharepoint technologies |
Link |
| microsoft.public.sharepoint.design_and_customization |
english |
new - related to the notions of design and customization of Sharepoint technologies |
Link |
| microsoft.public.sharepoint.development_and_programming |
english |
new - related to development on Sharepoint technologies |
Link |
| microsoft.public.sharepoint.setup_and_administration |
english |
new - related to installation and administration of Sharepoint technologies |
Link |
| microsoft.public.cmserver.general |
english |
related to Content Management Server |
Link |
| microsoft.public.fr.sharepoint |
french |
related to all Sharepoint technologies |
Link |
| microsoft.public.fr.cmserver |
french |
related to Content Management Server (no post) |
Link |
