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 "Internet sites" edition can only be used for
Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to nonemployees.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet,
and Internet applications across the enterprise.

Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document
libraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks.

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Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, will enable
bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries.
Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will only be
enabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007.
Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 file format
(XLSX).

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
-facilitating 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.

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.

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.

Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint.

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.

Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information
sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services - a key piece of the
information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - 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,

Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint. You place your assemblies there
for web parts and services.