Exploring the SharePoint 3.0 Wave: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

The point at which Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies really took off was the 3.0 wave. This wave saw the tightest integration between the new versions of the two products. WSS became WSS 3.0, and SPS 2003 was renamed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. In addition, Microsoft combined its Content Management Server product with SharePoint, integrating it into MOSS 2007.

MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, as shown in Figure 1.2, saw massive adoption across the board, and many organizations started to deploy for collaboration, document management, intranets, and extranets. In addition, major industry websites started to move ...

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