It's clear: your business will benefit from SharePoint^ฎ technologies. Now, which technology will give you the features you need, all while fitting into your budget?

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Designed for businesses and organizations of all sizes, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) can be used to manage and host an intranet-type site or a feature-rich public facing website. Secure and scalable to grow with your business, WSS 3.0 can be hosted in either shared server or dedicated server environments for additional security and performance.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)
MOSS 2007 is a robust, feature-rich collaboration and content management tool. MOSS 2007 has additional features to WSS 3.0 and integration of Microsoft Forms Server and Microsoft InfoPath technology. Hosted on dedicated servers only, the flexible and secure environment of MOSS 2007 makes it a great investment for business communications.

Short Features List
When choosing a SharePoint technology, it is best to determine what features you require. Below is a short features list; however if you require more details, the complete features are listed further below:

WSS 3.0 Features Blogs Wikis Surveys Project Tracking Issue Tracking Delegation Collaboration WSS 3.0 can be hosted in either shared or dedicated environments for additional security and performance.	MOSS 2007 Features Social Networking Document Workflow Content Syndication Site Directory Form Management Dashboards Authentication The highly secure environment of MOSS 2007 makes it a great investment for business communications.

Complete Features List

Collaboration	Enterprise Search	Business Process Forms	Management
Enterprise Portal	Enterprise Content Management	Business Intelligence	Platform

Collaboration		WSS 3.0		MOSS 2007

Real-Time Presence and Communication

The enhanced real-time presence smart tag icon, displayed virtually   everywhere a person’s name appears in the system, tells users   whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audio   conference call, instant messaging, or two-way video conversation.

Social Networking Webpart

Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your   organization, communities, and electronic communications in Public   My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with   common interests.

Standard Site Templates

Windows SharePoint Services V3 includes the following standard   collaboration site templates:   • Team site   • Document workspace   • Blank site   • Blog   • Wiki   • Meeting workspaces (5 workspace types)

Wikis

A wiki is a new site template in Windows SharePoint Services V3 that   makes it easy to create, edit, link, and restore an individual Web   page. Wikis can be used as creative forums to brainstorm ideas,   manage knowledge bases, create designs as well as instruction   guides or simply gather information in an easy-to-edit format. Wikis   are easy to create, modify, and annotate; in addition to tracking   contributions and changes. These key features include:   • Fast and easy page creation   • Easy and automatic linking   • Version differences   • WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Web page editing   Wikis leverage existing SharePoint functionality including search,   navigation, alerts, and custom fields.

Blogs

Blogs provide a publishing-oriented experience for a single user or a   team. Windows SharePoint Services V3 includes a site template that   supports:   • FArticle posting   • FReader comments   • FArchive views   • FRSS feed generation

People and Groups Lists

People and Groups offer a unified place to find, communicate with,   and manage people and their permissions, including support for   custom fields such as Department, “Office #” and Area of Focus; in   addition to the new Person field type. The Person field type creates   rich displays of lists of people including support for a People Picker   for browsing a list of users. Member Group provides:   • Re-use of groups across sites   • Distribution list for the members of the site

Calendars

Calendars have been enhanced with richer calendar views, expanded   support for recurring events, and all-day events.

Email Integration

Document libraries, discussion boards, calendars, and   announcements can be enabled to receive new postings via e-mail.   Similar to the functionality provided by public folders in Microsoft   Exchange Server, e-mail enabled discussion boards support:   • A highly scalable, topic-based architecture   • New “super rich-text” field type   • Unified experience for both e-mail and Web-based discussions   • One-step creation of Active Directory distribution lists as part of     the site creation process   • Unified SharePoint group and Active Directory management

Task Coordination

The new Project Tasks list template provides lightweight task   management functionality including Gantt charts for visualization of   task relationships and status.

Surveys

Surveys now include conditional branching as well as support for   inserting page breaks in long surveys such as annual employee   satisfaction or and customer surveys.

Document Collaboration

Improvements to SharePoint document libraries include:   • Checking out documents locally   • Offline document library support in Outlook 2007   • Major and minor version numbering and tracking   • Support for multiple content types   • Policy, auditing, and workflow   • Tree view support

Issue Tracking

The Issue Tracking list template has been updated to use the   enhanced versioning and version-history storage features of   Windows SharePoint Services V3.

Enterprise Portal		WSS 3.0		MOSS 2007

My Site Personal Site

The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate   information “for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant   enhancements include social networking, privacy controls, SharePoint   Sites and Documents Roll-Up Web Parts, and Colleagues and   Memberships Web Parts.

Privacy & Security

Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site   public view.

Content Syndication

Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site.

Site Directory

The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in   an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the   option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content.

User Profiles and the Profile Store

User Profiles store personal information for system users.   Improvements include multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy   from Office SharePoint Server 2007, property-level security controls   by person or group, open and closed vocabularies, and per-site   property extensions. Profile synchronization and directory import   support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Store with   enhanced scalability and performance.

Audience Targeting

Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target   distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences.

Site Manager

Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general   look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager   unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including   management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and   associated component parts.

Mobile Device Support

All SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages now render on   international and North American mobile devices (including Web-  enabled mobile phones) using a simplified text-only format.

Portal Site Templates

Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and   deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal   sites, and corporate Web sites.

SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-up Web Parts

List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the   user has authored. The Documents Roll-up Web Part also supports   more general capabilities for querying and filtering the documents   stored in a collection of SharePoint sites.

Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts

List people the user knows and people who belong to common   distribution groups.

Integration with Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Word 2007

Windows SharePoint Services V3 easily integrates with smart client   tools through a set of Web services and documented application   interfaces. Users can readily adopt these new tools because of their   similarity to other familiar environments, such as the Microsoft Office   system. For example, users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office   Excel, Microsoft Office Power Point, Microsoft Office InfoPath,   Microsoft Office Project, and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 can   directly interact with information stored in SharePoint sites without   having to manually download the content. Users can create   workspaces, post and edit documents, and assign tasks, all while   working on documents stored in SharePoint sites.

Integration with Outlook 2007

With Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, users can view calendars and   contact lists stored on SharePoint sites, and create and manage   sites for editing documents and organizing meetings. Outlook 2007   and Windows SharePoint Services V3 support a new set of   significantly enhanced functionality including:   • Read/write access to SharePoint items: calendars, tasks, contacts,     discussions, and documents   • Synchronization of offline support of document library and lists   • Ability to check out and edit documents when offline   • Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites   • Unified view of personal and SharePoint tasks in Outlook 2007

Integration with SharePoint Designer

Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based in part on Microsoft   Front Page technology, will provide tools for rich customization of   sites, and creating reporting tools and application templates, without   any coding.

Enterprise Search		WSS 3.0		MOSS 2007

User Interface

Simple, clean yet powerful user interface with industry-standard   query syntax. Scopes are decoupled from content sources so users   can easily broaden or narrow the scope of a content search. Search   can be based on arbitrary content properties such as URL, type, and   author. Actionable search results can be easily filtered and sorted;   used and shared. Alerts and RSS feeds easily provide updated   results for common and frequent queries.

Search Results

Search results are rendered more clearly. Results are security   trimmed so users only see what they can access. Results include   user-friendly features such as hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing   and synonym suggestion. Optional integration with real time   communications tools allow users to easily contact content authors   and experts.

Enterprise Content Sources

Searches over 200 file types in many enterprise content sources,   including files shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public   Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out of the box with the ability to   extend to additional 3rd party repostitories and filetypes through the   use of Protocol Handlers and iFilters.

Relevance

New and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content   along with the use of relevance and ranking factors such as click   distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction   yield the best results for enterprise content.

Administration and Management

Improved administration user interfaces and admin API provides   broad support for various search and indexing scenarios, central   controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for   management and reporting.

Indexing Controls

Granualr indexing controls for easy inclusion and exclusion of   searched content as well as immediate result removal of any site or   item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh.   Improved crawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per   content source; a new browsable, filterable index log provide   necessary information to optimize search.

Security

Administrator permissions no longer required by crawler. ACL and   ACL-only crawls index content permissions for compliance, privacy,   and protection of IP. Security-trimmed search results only allow users   to see content they are allowed to access.

People Search

People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by   department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and   common interests.

Business Data Search

Search data residing in your line of business applications using the   Business Data Catalog. Structured content sources as well as LOB   application data and reports accessible through web services or   ADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data   Catalog as search results or into a SharePoint list

Enterprise Content Management		WSS 3.0		MOSS 2007

Business Document Workflow Support

Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue   tracking using workflow applications.   • Approval   • Collect Feedback   • Collect Signatures   • Disposition Approval

Document Management Site Templates

• The Managed Document Library site template defines large-scale     document management sites.   • The Divisional Library site template includes managed document     libraries, dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other     reporting tools.   • The Translation Library site template helps organizations manage     multiple translations of a document.

Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM)

Helps ensure that access rights applied to Microsoft Office   documents in a central library travel with the documents, even when   they are downloaded from the library.

Document Information Panel

Makes editing document properties an integral part of the Microsoft   Office system document-authoring experience.

Document Action Bar

Describes to users what business policy or workflow governs the   current document and what action they are expected to take.

Retention and Auditing Policies

Define customized information management policies to control   retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings.

Records Repository

Helps ensure the integrity of the files stored in the repository, and   supports information management policies that consistently and   uniformly enforce auditing, and expiration of records.

E-Mail Content as Records

Provides consistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail   content across Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange   Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Legal Holds

Makes it possible for records to be searched and placed on hold   during litigation discovery to override the retention schedule of the   records.

High Fidelity Websites with Consistent Branding

Provides the concept of Master Pages and Page layouts to enforce   the branding and navigation of web sites. CSS supports gives pixel   level control on the look and feel of these sites.

Navigation Controls

Out-of-the box navigation controls that can be easily customized   by end users.

Content Authoring

Provides the ability for information workers to create content rich   web pages using a web browser.

Content Publishing and Deployment

Built in approval workflow allows web content to be sent for approval   prior to publishing. Content deployment to production sites can be   scheduled by setting up jobs and a "live" time period for each page   can be specified within which that page is viewable.

Site Templates

Includes support for several new enterprise site templates:   • The Enterprise Portal template provides a means for a business     unit to create and share content that is relevant to the ongoing     operation of an enterprise, division, or business unit.   • The Corporate Internet Presence Site template includes tools and     workflows to create and manage Web content for products and     service descriptions, company news, and public filings, among     other things.   • The Application Portal template brings together all of the tools and     information related to a particular line-of-business (LOB)     application.   • The Roll-up Portal template consolidates data and content from     several applications or locations and presents it in an integrated     format.

Page Layouts

Page Layouts simplify content authoring and publishing — site   administrators define a structure that guides authors through the   publishing process; content contributors focus on doing their jobs   rather than on the details of publishing and deployment. Flexible   Page Layouts also allow designers to mix and match ASP .NET   applications, Web Parts and Authoring Templates in any   configuration to create customized sites to meet specific business   needs.

Site Variations

A new feature of Office SharePoint Server, sites can be linked   together in a parent-child type of relationship providing a 1-way   orchestration framework for web content. This feature allow   organizations to deploy multi-lingual publishing sites in a much   more structured and manageable environment.

WYSIWYG Web Content Editor

Extends the SharePoint user interface with additional commands and   status indicators for in-context Web page authoring.

Slide Libraries

The repository features in Windows SharePoint Services V3 provide   the platform support for slide libraries, a feature of Office SharePoint   Server 2007. Slide libraries enable the storage of individual slides in   a SharePoint site. PowerPoint 2007 slide decks can be automatically   created from a selection of slides in a slide library.

Policies, Auditing and Compliance

Repositories in Windows SharePoint Services V3 support the following   policy, auditing, and compliance features. However, the features   denoted with an asterisk are activated only upon the installation of   Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.   • Document retention and expiration policies*   • Highly customizable policies   • Workflow process to define expiration   • Access control and security   • Information Rights Management policies applied on download to     secure the functional access to documents   • Tracking and auditing   • Logging of all actions on sites, content, and workflows   • Official document-of-record repositories*   • Site for storing or archiving enterprise approved content types

Business Process Forms		WSS 3.0		MOSS 2007

Browser-based Forms

InfoPath Forms Services available in Microsoft Office SharePoint   Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it   possible to design Web-capable forms in Microsoft Office InfoPath   2007 and distribute them on corporate intranets, extranets, or the   Internet. Users can fill out forms in a browser or HTML enabled   Mobile device with no download or client components needed.

Centralized Forms Management and Control

InfoPath Forms Services provide a administrator controled   centralized form solution catalog that makes it easy for users to find   a form and minimize form solution downtime when upgrades are   necessary. It also provides administrators with the tools to manage   form solution security and accessibility.

“Design Once” Development Model

Forms designers can design their forms once and deploy them for   use both within the rich Office InfoPath 2007 client program and   through a Web browser. Office Forms Server 2007 automatically   converts the form into ASP.NET Web forms, with no additional work   from the designer.

Form Import Wizard

The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to   convert forms designed in Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office   Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form Import Wizard   handles the conversion of form fields, repeating tables, rich text   boxes, and other elements, dynamically generating the underlying   XML structure for the new form.

Integrated Deployment Model for “No-code” Forms

The Publish Wizard in Office InfoPath 2007 makes it easy to publish   forms that do not have any managed code components to a   Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form available   as a browser-based form at the same time.

Compatibility Checker

The Compatibility Checker helps forms designers validate those   features that need to work across the broadest range of Web   browsers.

Business Intelligence		WSS 3.0		MOSS 2007

Integrated, Flexible Spreadsheet Publishing

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 provides an integrated publishing   experience that lets information workers easily choose what they   want to share with others and determine how others can interact with   published spreadsheets.

Share, Manage, and Control Spreadsheets

Share business data broadly while maintaining control and helping to   protect sensitive information. Provides access to spreadsheet data   and analysis through server-calculated, interactive Microsoft Office   Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to   maintain and efficiently share one centralized version of the truth   while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information   embedded in documents, such as financial models, by limiting   access to portions of the spreadsheet and auditing their usage.

Web-based Business Intelligence Using Excel Services

Excel Services empowers spreadsheet authors to easily and broadly   share spreadsheets that use the new Business Intelligence   functionality through the browser. Fully interactive, data-bound   spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views can be   created as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard,   without requiring any development.

Data Connection Libraries

Data Connection Libraries are centralized SharePoint document   libraries that store Office Data Connections (ODC); ODCs describe   connections to external data. Centralizing Office Data Connections   makes it easier to share, manage, and discover data connections   that can be used by any Microsoft Office program.

Business Data Catalog

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) tightly integrates external data   into the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user experience, providing   access to external data residing within backed LOB applications, and   enabling the display of and interaction with external data through a   set of Business Data Web Parts.