WSS vs. MOSS - SharePoint Server Portals

WSS MOSS

Integration with Microsoft® Office Access, Excel, PowerPoint, & Word
Hosted SharePoint easily integrates with smart client tools through a set of Web services and documented application interfaces. Early adoption is critical for a SharePoint deployment, and users can easily use these new tools because of their familiarity with Microsoft® Office.

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Hosted Exchange and SharePoint
With Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, users can view and share calendars and contact lists stored on SharePoint sites. SharePoint sites can also create and manage the process for editing and organizing documents & meetings. Learn more about Hosted Exchange

WSS MOSS

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

WSS MOSS

SharePoint 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 Websites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.

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Portal Site Templates
Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Websites.

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MOSS Site & Document Aggregation
List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the user has authored. The Documents Aggregation Web Part also supports more general capabilities for querying and filtering the documents stored in a collection of SharePoint sites.

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Colleague & Membership Webparts
List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups.

WSS MOSS

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

WSS MOSS

SharePoint Designer 2007 Integration
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based in part on Microsoft’s FrontPage technology, provides tools for powerful yet simple customization of SharePoint sites, reporting tools and application templates, with no web development or coding experience required. Sign up today and get this software FREE!

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Mobile Device Support
All SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages now render easily on SmartPhones such as the Palm® Pre, Apple® iPhone 3G and BlackBerry® Storm. The App Store from Apple even features a full-featured SharePoint Integration Application.

WSS MOSS

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 Aggregation Web Parts, and Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts.

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Enhanced Privacy and Security
Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view.

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Site Directories with MOSS
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.

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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.

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