Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Bible

Comparing Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and MOSS 2007

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003) added collaborative team sites and enterprise scalability to the SPS 2001 platform, in addition to adding ASP.NET development extensions and many other features. MOSS 2007 builds on this foundation by adding popular new functionality such as RSS subscriptions, blogs, and wikis as well as combining the features that were previously provided by Content Management Server 2003 (CMS).

The features are listed in Table 1.1. This table does not list every feature available in SharePoint, but instead lists the most popular features as well as compares and contrasts the differences between the 2003 to the 2007 products.

Table 1.1. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and MOSS 2007 Feature Matrix

Feature	Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003	Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
PORTAL
Social networking		X
Sites and documents roll-up Web part		X
Colleagues and memberships Web parts		X
Web parts	X	X
Web part pages	X	X
Enterprise search	X	X
Content targeting	X	X
Site directory	X	X
Automatic categorization	X	X
News	X	X
Shared services	X	X
Business intelligence		X
Single sign-on	X	X
Site and list templates	X	X
Infopath server		X
Excel server		X
Collaboration
Personal sites	X	X
Team sites	X	X
Wikis		X
Blogs		X
Alerts	X	X
Configurable alerts to users and groups		X
Discussion boards	X	X
Lists	X	X
Surveys	X	X
Workflow		X
Content review and approval		X
Site and list templates	X	X
Usability/Integration
Outlook calendar	X	X
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