What is Sharepoint?

	Microsoft always comes with nice ideas with its own advantage and SharePoint is a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration, file sharing and web publishing.        Microsoft Office SharePoint Server(MOSS) is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.    On the whole we can create site, sharing files in a easier way for any organisation.
Architecture of MOSS 2007	What is WSS and its relationship with moss WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) is a enabling technology included in windows server 2003. Moss relies on WSS. MOSS offers enhanced and additional features unavailable on WSS site. Both MOSS and WSS include site templates for collaborating with colleagues and setting up meetings. MOSS includes number of additional site templates related to enterprise and publishing scenarios. WSS: Backbone and underlying platform. MOSS: Value added set of service.
Inside WSS:	Inside WSS: Farm is a set of one or more server computers working together to provide WSS functionality to clients. An IIS Web site that has been specially configured to run WSS sites is known as a Web application . Web Application may have many Site collections. Site Collection: Collection of sites. Sharepoint Database: 1.Content database 2. Configuration database

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