SharePoint Server 2007 Builds on WSS 3.0

Microsoft offers two, related products for creating and managing team, corporate, and personal portal Web sites. Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 supports team collaboration sites, which aim to help groups of workers share information and collaborate. SharePoint Server 2007 is Microsoft’s strategic platform for corporate portals, Web sites that give workers an entry point to corporate information and applications. It also ships several new applications, such as records management and reporting. SharePoint Server 2007 is built on WSS 3.0 and thus inherits all of that product’s features.

What Does WSS 3.0 Provide?

WSS 3.0 provides tools and services for creating and managing team collaboration sites. It is also the foundation technology on which SharePoint Server 2007 is built. The following features of WSS 3.0 are the most important:

Lists and document libraries. WSS 3.0 provides facilities for creating, editing, and storing tabular lists of information relevant to site visitors. Lists are SharePoint’s most ubiquitous form of content, and WSS provides a wide variety of prebuilt list types, such as lists for contacts, announcements, and task tracking; customers and partners can also create custom list types. A special list type called the document library supplies the base features for storing and managing documents. All items in lists and document libraries are stored in SQL Server databases.