SharePoint Services 3.0

SharePoint Services is a powerful Web Portal or Intranet for team workspaces. It includes powerful features such as a document store with a check-in check-out system and approval process as well as showing revision history. It is integrated with Microsoft Office and Exchange and is completely customizable.
Improvements and support for your business can be gained through generating work flows that mimic your real business processes.
Backing up SharePoint Services is simple thanks to built-in backup and restore tools for content.
SharePoint Services requires an IIS web server , MSSQL database and Active Directory for integrated user authentication.
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) itself is free for download if you have Windows Server 2003 or 2008. WSS forms the core of a another product called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003. With MOSS you will get additional features such as Enterprise Search (allow to search external resources on file server or Exchange Public folder), converting of Excel or InfoPath files into HTML or creation of personal web sites.
This is a great solution for any size of business for organizing documents and collaboration.

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