Transcript WSS vs MOSS What are the Differences?

SGUDC SharePoint
Conference
WSS vs. MOSS what
are the differences?
Daniel Cohen-Dumani, CEO
Portal Solutions, LLC
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Agenda
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Introduction
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What is WSS – Windows SharePoint Services
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What is MOSS – Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
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What are the differences?
- Feature
- Licensing
Introduction
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What is SharePoint?
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SharePoint is a family of products by Microsoft
that aims at providing a center for collaboration
within an organization.
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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”
SharePoint Team Services “v1”
Content
Management
Server 2002
SharePoint Portal Server 2001
Introduction to WSS
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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, checkout, versioning,
- Web based access to files
- Structured list tracking (tasks, announcements, …)
- Site Management and security
- Specialized workspace
- Basic full text search
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Anatomy of a WSS site
Announcement board
Navigation
Documents
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Demonstration
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WSS Site
- Team Site
- Blog
- Meeting Workspace
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What and when to use WSS for?
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Web Based Team collaboration
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Need for content categorization and document
management like feature
- Versioning
- Check-in, check-out
- Content categorization
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Remote access to files
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Store structured content
- News, Announcements, Task Lists, Issues
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Communicate with a team
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Basic extranet capabilities
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What to be aware of?
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SharePoint storage relies on Microsoft SQL
Server
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Backup and Restore is integrated with the
product but not granular
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Number of sites can grow quickly and become
difficult to control and access
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Introduction to MOSS
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MOSS is a product built on top of WSS. It
introduces 5 key new features not found in WSS
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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
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WSS to MOSS site upgrade
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Demonstration
- MOSS are set of “features” build on top of WSS
- It can be activated on a site by site basis
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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
Rich and Web
forms based frontends, LOB actions,
enterprise SSO
Business
Forms
Platform
Services
Workspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,
Topology, Site Model
Content
Management
Integrated document
management, records
management, and Web
content management with
policies and workflow
Collaboration
Portal
Enterprise Portal
template, Site
Directory, My
Sites, social
networking,
privacy control
Search
Enterprise scalability,
contextual relevance, rich
people and business
data search
Personalized, People-Centric
Portal Services
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Portal
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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
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Web Content Management
- Designed for Internet and published sites
- New Web and Word authoring capabilities
- New content deployment and publishing tools
Search
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Enterprise Search
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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
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Enterprise Content Management
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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
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Business Process Integration
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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
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Business Intelligence/Dashboards
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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
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Organization wide intranet or portal
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Need people search and content targeting
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Need advanced search capabilities (external
content crawling)
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Need for Enterprise Content Management
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Need for Forms automation (Forms Server)
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Need for Integration with line of Business data
(BDC)
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What are the differences - Features?
Feature
Document Management
Team Based collaboration
Full Text Search
WSS
MOSS
 Basic
 Advanced (Audit, policies)
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 Limited to SharePoint
content
 Advanced (external content
crawling)
User Profiling
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Content Targeting
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Records Management
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Content Management
Public Facing Web Site
Electronic forms
Excel Services
Connection to LOB
Basic
Advanced
 WCM
 (Forms Services)
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 BDC
My Site
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Portal Framework
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Site Directory
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What are the differences – Licensing?
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WSS is licensed with Windows Server 2003
- Virtually free
- SQL backend must be licensed or use SQL Express
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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
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What we have learned
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For small deployment or jumpstart, deploy WSS
and upgrade to MOSS later
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For extranet deployment consider WSS only.
Rarely are MOSS features necessary for extranet
deployment. MOSS Extranet licensing is
expensive
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Create a road-map with business stakeholders
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Deploy incrementally
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Expect and plan for growth (and disaster
recovery)
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MOSS learning curve is steep (Microsoft
implementation guide is 800 pages)
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Q&A
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Questions
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Thank you
Contact Information:
Daniel Cohen-Dumani
[email protected]
http://www.portalsolutions.net/blogs
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