SharePoint Server Builds on WSS 3.0

WSS team collaboration sites are similar to SharePoint Server portal sites technically, but they are smaller in scope—instead of being entry points to corporatewide information, team sites help smaller groups (a product development team, for instance) share information and work together. Furthermore, where portal sites are typically tightly controlled by dedicated IT workers, developers, and content authors, team sites are more ad hoc in nature—for example, it is not uncommon for all team members to have permission to create and contribute to sites without the involvement of IT staff.

What Does WSS 3.0 Provide?

WSS 3.0 is 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.