SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching.
Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and
lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint
Services or directly to portal areas.

A document library is where you upload your core documents. They consist of a row and column view with links to the documents. When the document is updated so is the link on your site. You can also track metadata on your documents. Metadata would consist of document properties.

A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that can be used over time. There are many
templates within SharePoint, Site Templates, Document Templates, Document Library and List
Templates.

CAML stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based language
that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for
example, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows
SharePoint Services database during site provisioning.

Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable web parts from Microsoft.

The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through
hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a
blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the
ground up.

Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information
sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services \u2014 a key piece of the
information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 \u2014 provides
additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it
serves as a platform for application development.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide
additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management,
business process and forms, and business intelligence.

SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across
business processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems into one
secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. It
provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaboration
through data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users
to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content
and layout as well as through audience targeting.

Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for
information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides
additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as
serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and
Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible
deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team
collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes
\u2014facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends
the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management
tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators, and
application developers.
is designed

Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet,
and Internet applications across the enterprise.
* Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of
their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar,
everyday applications.
* Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners across
organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services\u2013driven solutions.
* Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the
facilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, access
to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can be
personalized.
* Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, and
system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks.
* Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office Business
Applications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease of
deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box application
services, developers can build richer applications with less code.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007 have identical feature functionality. While the feature functionality is similar, the usage
rights are different.
If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that you use
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require the purchase
client access licenses. Websites hosted using an \u201cInternet sites\u201d edition can only be used for
Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-
employees. Websites hosted using an \u201cInternet sites\u201d edition cannot be accessed by employees
creating, sharing, or collaborating on content which is solely for internal use only, such as an
Intranet Portal scenario. See the previous section on licensing for more information on the usage
scenarios.