Windows SharePoint Services
{"Image DocumentName": "Windows SharePoint Services", "Image ImageDescription": "4/1/2017 9:19 PM. Windows SharePoint Services. WSS. Title: Windows SharePoint Services. Talking Points: Windows SharePoint Services contain a variety of enhanced features. Microsoft Windows SharePoint\u00ae Services 3.0 is a collaboration technology that helps organizations improve business processes and enhance team productivity. With a rich set of features and tools that give people browser-based access to workspaces and shared documents, Windows SharePoint Services helps people connect to and work with others across organizational and geographic boundaries. Windows SharePoint Services also provides a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that are flexible and scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of your business. In addition, robust administrative controls for managing storage and Web infrastructure give IT departments a cost-effective way to implement and manage a high-performance collaboration environment. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has many new features and enhancements that can help IT Professionals deploy and maintain Windows SharePoint Services solutions. Together, these new features and enhancements provide IT organizations with better control over information resources; individually these new features and enhancements provide functional benefits that help reduce administrative overhead. [BUILD1] Administration model enhancements - Windows SharePoint Services includes several enhancements to the administration model that help IT organizations implement management plans and perform administrative tasks more effectively and efficiently. Centralized configuration and management: Windows SharePoint Services now has a centralized configuration and management model, which includes a centralized configuration database and two new services that automatically propagate and synchronize the centrally-stored configuration settings across all of the servers in your server farm. The new configuration and management model allows you to centrally manage your server farm without having to manage farm settings on a server-by-server basis. For example, if you create a Web application on one of your Web servers, the Web application is automatically propagated to all of your Web servers. You no longer have to create and configure individual Web applications on each of your Web servers. Two-tier administration model: Windows SharePoint Services has an enhanced two-tier administration model that makes it easier for IT organizations to differentiate administrative roles and assign administrative responsibilities. Farm-based Central Administration user interface: The SharePoint Central Administration Web pages have been redesigned and reorganized, allowing easier implementation of administrative tasks and procedures. Delegation of administrative responsibilities and roles: Because the multi-tier administration model provides a clear delineation of administrative tasks, IT managers can better delegate administrative responsibilities to the appropriate users and administrators within an organization. [BUILD2] New and improved compliance features and capabilities - Windows SharePoint Services includes new and enhanced features that provide IT organizations with better control over information resources. Policy management: You can now configure policies for Web applications based on the domain or the server authentication zone. For example, you can create intranet and extranet authentication zones to restrict access to information based on how users access information. You can also use authentication zones to create access control lists (ACLs) that include a group of users from different authentication providers. Diagnostic logging: Diagnostic logging can now be configured for all actions on sites, content, and workflows. Item-level access control: Windows SharePoint Services provides item-level access control and security settings that allow site administrators and IT administrators to control which people or groups have access to sites, document libraries, lists, folders, documents, and list items. In addition, Windows SharePoint Services provides security trimming of UI elements. Security trimming controls which UI elements are visible or actionable based on a user s permissions, thereby reducing Web page clutter and making Web pages easier to navigate. Administrator access control: Windows SharePoint Services now prohibits IT administrators from viewing site content unless the IT administrator is granted site collection administrator privileges. In addition, an event is written to the Event Viewer Application log whenever an IT administrator changes site collection administrator privileges. [BUILD3] New and improved operational tools and capabilities: Windows SharePoint Services includes several new and improved tools and capabilities that help IT organizations implement operational plans and tasks. Backup and Recovery Support: Several new and improved features make it easier to perform backup and recovery tasks. A multi-stage recycle bin allows users to retrieve inadvertently deleted documents, reducing dependence on IT departments for document retrieval functions. The recycle bin also allows administrators to manage the lifecycle of deleted items in the recycle bin. The backup and restore functionality is also enhanced, providing support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which allows better integration with non-Microsoft backup and recovery programs. In addition, the backup and restore functionality in Windows SharePoint Services allows IT staff to back up and restore the data that is stored in a SQL Server database, such as your configuration database, content and configuration data for Web applications, and search databases. Upgrade and migration support: The following features have been added to make upgrades faster and easier: Gradual upgrade support: By performing a gradual upgrade, you can incrementally upgrade data and functionality on a server that is running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services version 2 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This is particularly useful if you are upgrading a complex environment and you do not want to interrupt business processes. Migration support: Windows SharePoint Services provides support for migrating content. You can migrate content for an entire Web site or you can migrate content on a more specific basis, such as lists and documents. You can also migrate content incrementally. Reparenting. This allows you to dynamically rearrange a hierarchy of SharePoint sites, and is typically used during a migration. Previously, in Windows SharePoint Services version 2, to move a site, you needed to back up and then delete it from its current location, and then restore the site in the new location. Monitoring support: Improved instrumentation is provided through Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) management packs. MOM packages support centralized monitoring and management of configurations ranging from single server and small server farms to very large server farms. Host header mode: Host header mode, a new feature in Windows SharePoint Services, allows you to create multiple domain-named sites in a single Web application. In Windows SharePoint Services version 2, when scalable hosting mode was enabled, you could extend only one IIS Web site. Now, with host header mode, you can have host header-based site collections on multiple Web applications, so you are no longer limited to extending just one IIS Web site. Server renaming: Windows SharePoint Services now has the Stsadm renameserver command that makes it easier to rename your Web servers and your database servers. When you run Stsadm renameserver, the configuration database for your farm is updated, so that any URLs or references to the old server name are now mapped to the new server name. Credential management: You can now manage service account credentials, such as the application pool identity for your application pools, through the SharePoint Central Administration site. [BUILD4] Improved support for network configuration: Windows SharePoint Services includes enhanced support for network configuration. Alternate access mapping: Alternate access mapping (AAM) provides a mechanism for mapping newly-added Web servers to your Web application. For example, if you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services on a single Web server, and a user browses to your server, the server will render the content that is in your Web application. However, if you add subsequent Web servers to your server farm, the newly-added servers will not have alternate access mappings configured to your Web application. Pluggable authentication: Windows SharePoint Services adds support for non-Windows-based identity systems by integrating with the pluggable Microsoft ASP.NET forms authentication system. ASP.NET authentication allows Windows SharePoint Services to work with identity management systems that implement the Membership Provider interface. [BUILD5] Extensibility enhancements: Windows SharePoint Services has several extensibility enhancements that make it easier to create custom applications that are well integrated with Windows SharePoint Services features, functionality, and user interface elements. Site definitions have been enhanced so that sites are no longer locked or bound to your original template choice. Administration tasks and functionality can be extended to custom applications. Enhancements to the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service make it easier to create and manage timer jobs that control custom services. Windows SharePoint Services hosts the Windows Workflow Foundation, which allows the creation of customized workflow solutions and the use of structured workflows on document library and list items. In conjunction with the Windows SharePoint Services application templates, the Windows Workflow Foundation allows you to create robust workflow-enabled business applications. Additional Information: Changes in Functionality to Windows Server Longhorn (January 2007).doc (also called the Book of Longhorn) Administration model enhancements. New and improved compliance features and capabilities. New and improved operational tools and capabilities. Improved support for network configuration. Extensibility enhancements.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}