Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Exploring the SharePoint 2.0 Wave: Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Microsoft’s first real attempt to marry these two tools into a single product line and create a true collaboration environment was born out of the second wave of SharePoint technologies, SharePoint 2003, as shown in Figure 1.1. SharePoint Team Services was rebranded as Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2.0, and the portal product became SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Both products were built on the same SQL Server database engine, and Microsoft positioned the features to be an extension of each other. WSS was the “free” product, available with every license of Windows Server, whereas the SPS 2003 product became the fully featured portal that ...