February 28, 2007 Pamela Williams

Windows SharePoint Services is an enabling technology that is included in Microsoft Windows Server 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 How are Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services related?

SharePoint offers: Collaboration & Social Computing Collaboration 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.

Requirements Operating System Internet Connection  Windows Server 2003 SP1 or Windows  Server 2003 x64 or Windows Small Business Server 2003;.NET Framework 3.0.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

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SharePoint Technologies pricing Microsoft 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 or Annual contract fee $  Silver- 500 users, 1GIG, monthly contract fee or Annual contract fee $  Gold- 100o users, 2GIG, monthly contract fee or Annual contract fee $  Platinum- Unlimited users, 5GIG, monthly contract fee $ or Annual contract fee $

Pros Cons 1. Cost for the Services are cheap. 2. Has rich out-of-the-box functionality 3. Incremental deployment options 4. Easy and cost-effective extensibility 5. Integration with familiar tools 6. 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.

SharePoint info Free SharePoint Services evaluation can be downloaded at: Free SharePoint Server evaluation can be downloaded at: EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en Currently Microsoft is offering 12 Free SharePoint Computer based Trainings at: Support documentation: Templates can be found at:

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History Extra 1997 – Exchange Server (version 5.5), the messaging platform was the product of choice Microsoft announced that the next Exchange or Platinum and Tahoe which were combined A toolkit originally called the Digital Dashboard Starter Kit was released as a free download Microsoft finally released Windows Server Microsoft acquired content management vendor nCompass, and re-branded the product Content Management Server 2001 (CMS ).

History 1997 – 2007 Continued… Microsoft released a new version of Office 2003 and STS was renamed Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) CMS and SPS finally joined together as the two product groups were merged Microsoft acquired Groove, a peer-to-peer (P2P) team-based collaboration product they acquired ProClarity Microsoft partners added wikis, RSS to SharePoint

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