These are a sample of statistics about SharePoint deployment in Microsoft, version 2 Biggest deployment anywhere 4 Farms 115 servers 6 Million documents (not many) 6 tera-bytes of data (its not a file system replacement!) 90,000 sites – including personal sites
There are lots of changes to the data storage services in SharePoint 3, ie Office 12 System, these are the ones I noticed: Everything in WSS now seems to be built on the list type, this is really important as it means that all of the services and UI created...
The main themes are: Easier to get started Adapt to your needs Easy to share Easy to manage It’s interesting that none of these seem to address the biggest issue I see which Access usage in the corporate environment which is a concern over the following: Data silos being created...
Administration: Administration is generally simpler and more consistent The UI is more extensible by third party applications, the standard UI no longer needs to be replaced in order to be extended The Admin UI supports more delegation of administration Extranet: Much improved support for Extranet deployment Improved resource management Ability...
All Project Server functions are exposed as a set of web services. Just like Office Client interacts with WSS, Project Professionals integration with Project Server as also completely achieved via these web services, which means other clients or server solutions can also be integrated using these web service interfaces. These...
I use OneNote now and then and have never really become convinced about its utility as a universal Note Taking solution, for the following main reasons: Layout controls are limited Nervousness about use on two or more machines Difficulty sharing notes with other people who don’t use OneNote I am...
FrontPage investments professional web design SharePoint no-code applications great integration with the rest of the Microsoft web authoring platform Front page has made big improvements in compliance with web standards Dataview web part, used to integrate diverse data sources and present them through SharePoint WYSIWYG design experience conditional formatting static...
Document management was really just simple check-in and out in v2. Now it’s quite impressive: Alerting and RSS feeds on document libraries, as described in this post Custom meta-data Improved capture of meta-data in Office client applications If documents are XML, meta-data can be extracted into lists Creation of custom...
There are lots of small changes that come together to enhance the community support in SharePoint v3. Here is an overview: People become first class citizens, where ever a person appears in SharePoint the information available is improved There is a person field type that can be added to lists...
Lists were already VERY powerful in WSS v2. They get even better in V3. Pretty much everything in V3 is a list The capabilities available in lists therefore get inherited everywhere The standard library of list types has been greatly improved, previously for example the standard list type for “issues”...