WSS vs MOSS What are the Differences?

Transcript WSS vs MOSS What are the Differences?

SGUDC SharePoint Conference WSS vs. MOSS what are the differences?

Agenda

• • • • Introduction What is WSS – Windows SharePoint Services What is MOSS – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Standard Edition Enterprise Edition What are the differences?

Feature Licensing

Introduction

• • • What is SharePoint? SharePoint is a family of products by Microsoft that aims at providing a center for collaboration within an organization.

SharePoint is a foundation product to implement and build collaborative applications, document management solutions, intranet, extranet and public facing web sites SharePoint umbrella of product includes: • Windows SharePoint Services (WSS v3) • Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007)

A little bit of history

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Portal, Web Content Management, and More Windows SharePoint Services “v3” SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Windows SharePoint Services “v2” Content Management Server 2002 SharePoint Team Services “v1” SharePoint Portal Server 2001

Introduction to WSS

• Windows SharePoint Services is an extension to Windows Server 2003 providing a next generation web based file system that allows to create a hierarchy of collaboration oriented sites Document management capabilities (check-in, check out, versioning, Web based access to files Structured list tracking (tasks, announcements, …) Site Management and security Specialized workspace Basic full text search 5

Anatomy of a WSS site

Announcement board Navigation Documents Links 6

Demonstration

• WSS Site Team Site Blog Meeting Workspace Pal-Tech 7

What and when to use WSS for?

• • • • Web Based Team collaboration Need for content categorization and document management like feature Versioning Check-in, check-out Content categorization Remote access to files Store structured content News, Announcements, Task Lists, Issues • Communicate with a team • Basic extranet capabilities April 28, 2020 8

What to be aware of?

• • • SharePoint storage relies on Microsoft SQL Server Backup and Restore is integrated with the product but not granular Number of sites can grow quickly and become difficult to control and access 9

Introduction to MOSS

• MOSS is a product built on top of WSS. It introduces 5 key new features not found in WSS Advanced Search Capabilities Personalized, People-Centric Portal Services Enterprise Content Management Business Process Integration Business Intelligence and Integration with Back-End Line of Business Application 10

WSS to MOSS site upgrade

• Demonstration MOSS are set of “features” build on top of WSS It can be activated on a site by site basis Pal-Tech 11

SharePoint Products and Technologies

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists Business Intelligence Collaboration Rich and Web forms based front ends, LOB actions, enterprise SSO Business Forms

Platform Services

Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Portal Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Content Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Management Search Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search

Personalized, People-Centric Portal Services

Portal

• • Portal & Web Content Management Organization wide content categorization (intranet) • Web-based content management Web Parts provide dynamic and interactive functionality Multi-language support User profiling and expertise locator Self service access to content Web Content Management Designed for Internet and published sites New Web and Word authoring capabilities New content deployment and publishing tools

Search

Enterprise Search

• Enterprise Search Built-in search with scoping and result relevance Can index and search SharePoint, file shares, Exchange public folders, internal and external web sites, Line of Business applications and external sources Security trimmed Compete with Google Search Appliance Available as a standalone product

Content Management

Enterprise Content Management

• Policy and Compliance Centrally controlled auditing, expiration & retention policies Archival, retention and regulatory compliance E-mail content as records Records Management Template

Business Process Integration

• Forms & Process Management Create online business forms (expense report, vacation request, etc.) with workflow and business process automations • Forms include calendars, repeating fields, validation • Route through workflow & report through SharePoint Rapidly develop and deploy form solutions in the enterprise Available as a standalone product

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence/Dashboards

• Business Intelligence/Dashboards Publish interactive Excel documents to render in a browser Create dashboards with reports, Excel documents & KPI’s Centralize DB connections Expose Excel formulas as web services Connect to external LOB applications

KPI Web Parts Browser based excel documents Data visualization of Excel 2007

“Actions” allow you to perform changes to LOB data Data can come from any business system OOTB Web parts allow you connect o back end data

When to use MOSS

• • • • • • Organization wide intranet or portal Need people search and content targeting Need advanced search capabilities (external content crawling) Need for Enterprise Content Management Need for Forms automation (Forms Server) Need for Integration with line of Business data (BDC) Pal-Tech 25

What are the differences - Features?

Feature

Document Management Team Based collaboration Full Text Search User Profiling Content Targeting Records Management Content Management Public Facing Web Site Electronic forms Excel Services Connection to LOB My Site Portal Framework Site Directory

WSS

 Basic   Limited to SharePoint content  Basic

MOSS

 Advanced (Audit, policies)   Advanced (external content crawling)     Advanced  WCM  (Forms Services)   BDC    26

What are the differences – Licensing?

• • WSS is licensed with Windows Server 2003 Virtually free SQL backend must be licensed or use SQL Express MOSS is licensed on a per server basis and per user basis Complex licensing 1 MOSS Server license per server where MOSS is licensed 1 Client Access License for each user (Standard or Standard + Enterprise) For external use, Internet licensing is available 27

What we have learned

• • • • • • For small deployment or jumpstart, deploy WSS and upgrade to MOSS later For extranet deployment consider WSS only. Rarely are MOSS features necessary for extranet deployment. MOSS Extranet licensing is expensive Create a road-map with business stakeholders Deploy incrementally Expect and plan for growth (and disaster recovery) MOSS learning curve is steep (Microsoft implementation guide is 800 pages) 28

Q&A

• Questions Pal-Tech 29

Thank

you Contact Information: Daniel Cohen-Dumani [email protected]