Microsoft SharePoint Family Overview

The SharePoint family has two main products:

SharePoint Services – provides creation of websites for team collaboration

SharePoint Portal Server – used to connect SharePoint Services websites, people and business processes.

SharePoint Services versions:

• Sharepoint Team Services (STS) 2001 WSS v1
• Windows SharePoint Services (WSS v2)
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0)

SharePoint Portal Servers versions:

• SharePoint Portal Server 2001
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS)
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)