Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (or) WSS 3.0, is the underlying core framework of SharePoint, WSS is free and can be downloaded and installed on any server which runs Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 contains all the basic features which are required for a small business setup. It has the basic features like Site, Lists, Document Libraries, Wikis, Blogs etc.

We can also create users and groups and assign user/group specific privileges using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 comes with the following built in site templates, which can be used to create new sites.

• Team site
• Document workspace
• Blank site
• Blog
• Wiki

For the development point of view, it has an Object Model and a set of Web Services which can be used to program the behavior of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It also supports deploying custom Web parts which were developed using Visual Studio.

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