SharePoint Server 2007 Technology Stack

SharePoint Server 2007 is a multitier architecture that relies on a variety of Microsoft products and technologies, including Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0, SQL Server, the .NET Framework 3.0, and Windows Server 2003.

Data tier. SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS 3.0 rely on a number of SQL Server databases to store configuration, administrative, site content, and search data. A SharePoint Server installation will have a single configuration database, provided by WSS, that contains information such as global configuration data (e.g., information on the Web servers in the installation) and server settings (e.g., to map SharePoint Server sites to their content stored in content databases). SharePoint Server maintains all site content in a SQL Server database—for example, documents managed in SharePoint Server document libraries are stored in databases instead of the Windows file system. Other databases store information used by SharePoint Server’s search services (indexes, for instance) and for SharePoint Server’s shared service providers, a set of centralized, shared services that are not specific to any one SharePoint Server site (Excel Services, SharePoint’s server-based spreadsheet calculation and rendering engine, is one example of a shared service).