Definition:
SharePoint helps you gather information together.
Advantages:
It is actually hard to describe what SharePoint is in just a few words, but let's give it a try. Using this application, you can build a web-based environment that includes the following, and more:
1) A public Internet site
2) An intranet portal for the organization and each department
3) An extranet portal for your customers and partners
4) A team site for your sales department
5) A project site for the development team
6) A document management system that is compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and ISO-9000
7) A personal site for each user where they can store personal data and create links to their team sites
8) A digital dashboard for storing business intelligence data such as key performance indicators
9) A place to search and locate any type of information, regardless of where it is stored
10) A record management system for storing legal information in a secure way.
The list goes on and on. Since SharePoint is such a flexible and powerful application, it is almost only your own imagination that limits what you can do with it. It is also very fun to work with, since it is so easy to build an impressive solution with it. Microsoft has most certainly created a killer application - again! shows a typical SharePoint 2007 site, just to give you an idea about how it looks.
The important things you should remember:
@ STS(sharepoint team services) is the old name for WSS and is still used in SharePoint 2007 in some places, such as the administrative tool tsadm.exe and the folder sts storing the site definition for WSS sites.
@ MOSS has replaced SPS(sharepoint portal services).
@ MOSS comes in Standard and Enterprise editions and has optional servers.
@ MS SQL Server is used by MOSS(Microsoft office sharepoint services) and WSS(windows sharepoint services) 3.0.
Note:
The features and functionality of both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007, which are also known as SharePoint Products and Technology (SPPT) 2007.
