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

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collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment
for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.

SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has MUCH better document management. It has check-in,
check-out, versioning, approval, publishing, subscriptions, categories, etc. STS does not have
these features, or they are very scaled back. SharePoint team Services (SPS) has a better search
engine, and can crawl multiple content sources. STS cannot. STS is easier to manage and much
better for a team environment where there is not much Document Management going on. SPS is
better for an organization, or where Document Management is crucial.

A representation of the combination of one or more Connector components that share a single engine component for processing incoming requests.

It executes low-level instruction generated by compiler.

It translates DML statements in a query language into low-level instruction that the query evaluation engine can understand.

A container that provides the same services as a servlet container and an engine that interprets and processes JSP pages into a servlet.