Microsoft SharePoint Services

2007 Microsoft Office System
- WSS 3.0 – Windows SharePoint Services V3.0
- MOSS – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
- MOSS is part of 2007 Microsoft Office System (Desktop App: Access, Accounting, Communicator, Excel, FrontPage, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, SharePoint Designer, Visio, Word; Servers: Forms, Groove, Live Communications, PerformancePoint, Project Portfolio, Project, SharePoint, SharePopint Server Search )

Operating System services:
- ASP.NET
- Windows Workflow Foundation

Enterprise Content Management
- More just managing documents in a library
- Per-item level permissions, recycle bins, full major/minor versioning, content types

Tiers
- Tier 1: Web Front End (WFE)
- Tier 2: Application tier
- Tier 3: Database tier

Deployment
- WSS 3.0 on single-server
- Onto multiple servers (server farm)
- Single server can host (WFE, application, database)

Site Framework
- Web-based application (under IIS)
- Site Collection (Sites)
- Site

Pages
- Master Pages
- Page Layouts
- Content Pages

Site
- Site Definitions – initial lists, libraries, views, Web Parts and pages (defined in XML files under SiteTemplates)
- Site Templates
- Features: Feature.XML

Storage
- Lists
- Libraries (physical document column)
- Different types (content type) of document in single libraries
- Library documents can be opened and saved directly from Office 2007 application

Administration
- Folders
- Recycle Bin
- AutoCopy
- List column limitation is 2000
- Generally, if display more than 1000 itemns in a single view, need to consider indexing certain columns

Versioning
- Major
- Minor
- Libraries support check-in and check-out

List Level Permission
- Manage Lists
- Override Check Out
- Add Items
- Edit Items
- Delete Items
- View Items
- Approve Items
- Open Items
- View Versions
- Delete Versions
- Create Alerts
- View Application Pages

Site Permission
- Manage Permissions
- View Usage Data
- Create Sbsites
- Manage Web Site
- Add and Customize Pages
- Apply Themes and Borders
- Apply Style Sheets
- Create Groups
- Browse Directories
- Use Self-Service Site Creation
- View Pages
- Enumerate Permissions
- Browse User Information
- Manage Alerts
- Use Remote Interfaces
- Use Client Integration Features
- Open
- Edit Personal User Information

Default Groups
- [Site name] Visitors - Read
- [Site name] Members – Contribute
- [Site name] Owners – Full Control

Authentication
- Active Directory
- LDAP
- SQL database
- Pluggable authentication is possible via ASP.NET provider model