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Windows Share Point Services (WSS) and MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services).

Basics:

1) What is SharePoint?
Ans) SharePoint us a .Net based Technology that can be used to create dynamic and secured websites using pre-defined or user created site templates.

2) How we can store the data on Share Point?
Ans) Sites allow the users to store the information in "Tabular Format" using list storage structures(i.e. on data base) or "File Share"(i.e. data stored in the form of files using library storage structure).

3) Is share point is Product or Technology?
Ans) Share point is a set of products and technology.

Products :

• WSS (Windows Share Point Services) a free windows server component

• MOSS (Microsoft Share point services) is a paid component for windows server included on Office suite.
• Sharepoint Designer 2007 is free component and can be downloaded through http://www.microsoft.com/spd and it includes comprehensive Site design tools and Customization Tools

4) What is different between WSS and MOSS?
Ans) WSS includes basic share point server components which is used to design a basic sites and configure the sites. WSS come along with Windows server 2003. Microsoft decided to provide Microsoft sharepoint designer 2007 for free, which enabled the users to design a different site templates and sites.

MOSS includes various tools which enables the users to design complex sites and provide extensive support to develop web based solutions. MOSS backed up with technology like ASP.net and C#. It also include enterprise level search capabilities. MOSS is most powerful product (also includes the technology) to develop and design the WEB PORTALS.