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

1. SGUDC SharePoint ConferenceWSS vs. MOSS what are the differences? Daniel Cohen-Dumani, CEO Portal Solutions, LLC

2. 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

3. 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)

4. A little bit of history Office SharePoint Server 2007 Portal, Web Content Management, and More Windows SharePoint Services “v3” Content Management Server 2002 SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Windows SharePoint Services “v2” SharePoint Team Services “v1” SharePoint Portal Server 2001

5. 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 November 12, 2007

6. Anatomy of a WSS site Navigation Announcement board Links Documents November 12, 2007

7. Demonstration • WSS Site • Team Site • Blog • Meeting Workspace November 12, 2007 Pal-Tech

8. 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 November 12, 2007

9. 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 November 12, 2007

10. 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 November 12, 2007

11. 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 November 12, 2007 Pal-Tech

12. Platform ServicesWorkspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model SharePoint Products and TechnologiesMicrosoft 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 Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, enterprise SSO BusinessForms Portal Content Management Search Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search

13. Personalized, People-CentricPortal Services

14. 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

15. Search

16. 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

17. Content Management

18. 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

19. Business Process Integration

20. 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

21. Business Intelligence

22. 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

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

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

25. 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) November 12, 2007 Pal-Tech

26. What are the differences - Features? November 12, 2007

27. 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 November 12, 2007

28. 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) November 12, 2007

29. Q&A • Questions November 12, 2007 Pal-Tech

30. Thank you Contact Information: Daniel Cohen-Dumani daniel@portalsolutions.net http://www.portalsolutions.net/blogs