Professional SharePoint® 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

3.2. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

MOSS 2007 builds on the WSS 3.0 platform to offer six additional broad areas of functionality. As shown in Figure 3-1, WSS provides the center circle of platform services and the collaboration slice. The additional portal, search, content management, business forms, and business intelligence slices are provided by MOSS.

Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1

MOSS is available in three flavors, or SKUs. MOSS Standard Edition includes collaboration, portal, search, and content management. MOSS Enterprise Edition adds business forms and business intelligence. In addition, there is a MOSS for Internet Sites Edition, which featurewise is identical to Enterprise but is licensed for the hosting of applications deployed to the Internet.

More information on MOSS licensing and which edition is appropriate can be found at www.andrewconnell.com/go/207 and www.andrewconnell.com/go/208.

In brief, the key feature areas of MOSS include the following:

• Collaboration — Document libraries/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management "lite," Office Outlook 2007 integration, offline documents, and lists.

• Portal — Enterprise portal template, site directory, my sites, social networking, and privacy control.

• Search — Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search.

• Content Management — Integrated document management, records ...