My Study Notes

WSS 3.0 offers all the standard site templates to build blank sites, blogs, wikis and other work spaces. Version control, task notification and alerts all come with WSS 3.0. WSS is included as a part of the Windows Server 2003 operating system.

MOSS offers all of the features included in WSS 3.0. In addition, MOSS 2006 offers business intelliegence features that allow you to track key performance indicators. MOSS offers all the features of WSS but enhances and extends them while also adding new functionality.

Main differences:

- Personalisation: MOSS allows users to have individual, personalised sites; WSS doesn't.
- Audience Targeting - MOSS allows you to target content to specific user groups; WSS doesn't
- Search administration and customization - MOSS gives its administrators much more control over the configuration of its search engine; WSS doesn't.
- User Profiles: MOSS allows you to import, store, and update personal data on your users; its not available in WSS.
- MOSS allows all of the content in multiple site collections to be crawled and indexed, then made available in a centralised search site.