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 Understand the skills necessary to implement and support SharePoint:
SharePoint requires a lot of skills, and it’s not likely that you have all of
them. I know I sure don’t. You have to make arrangements to acquire the
skills you don’t have in-house.
The SharePoint family of technologies consists of several products. In this
book, I focus on the two primary SharePoint products: Windows SharePoint
Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Each of
these products has a different role in the stack of SharePoint technologies.
See the section, “Licensing SharePoint,” later in this chapter, for a complete
rundown of all the products available in the SharePoint family.
Laying the foundation
The core product in the family of SharePoint technologies is Windows
SharePoint Services (WSS). Because WSS is the foundational product,
no other product in the SharePoint family is possible without it.
WSS is a full-blown ASP.NET 2.0 Web application, which means it runs hosted
inside ASP.NET. When you install WSS, you have to install ASP.NET and every-
thing it requires to run, including the following:
 Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6 or 7: This is Microsoft’s
Web server, which is used to host SharePoint. Most typical SharePoint
usage scenarios can configure IIS from within SharePoint. You don’t have
to manage IIS directly very often.
 .NET Framework version 2.0 and 3.0: This is a set of software that
installs ASP.NET and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). After you
enable ASP.NET 2.0 on the server, you don’t have to do anything else
to configure .NET.
 SQL Server 2000 or later: This is Microsoft’s database management
system. SharePoint can create all the databases it needs, or you can
create them yourself. You’re responsible for managing backups of
your data.
 Windows Server 2003 or later: This is Microsoft’s server operating
system. Monitor the servers that host SharePoint just like you would
any server.
I walk you through installing these technologies on your server in Chapter 2.
Figure 1-2 shows the stack of technologies required to run WSS. Note that
these are logical servers. Your implementation may include several physical
servers.
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