Introduction
Sharepoint based upon asp.net and used to provide paper-less environment. Sharepoint comes with its own administration panel which divides into two sections namely Operations and Application Management.
Operations
This page contains links to pages that help you manage your server or server farm, such as changing the server farm topology, specifying which services are running on each server, and changing settings that affect multiple servers or applications.
Application Management
This page contains links to pages that help you configure settings for applications and components that are installed on the server or server farm. Application management used to manage web application, site collection, site(s), web form/pages, web part(s).
First of all, I would like to talk about some essentials things about sharepoint technologies.
1. Sharepoint Services
2. Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
3. Sharepoint Designer
Sharepoint Services:
Sharepoint services based upon asp.net and as name implies it’s services components used to serve. It comes with few basic but powerful componets. If you want more components and wanted to utilize maximum power of sharepoint then you need to have Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server which based upon Sharepoint Services.
Sharepoint services comes with following components
1. Provisioning (site creation)
2. Administration (site admin)
3. Page and User Interface (master page, ascx, menus, treesview, navigational)
4. Security (Roles, Membership,…)
5. Data Management (manage content, data, documents)
6. Information Services (e-mail, e-mail alert notifications, search)
7. Web Parts (Portlets, Page modules)
8. Workflow (manage tasks flow)
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS)
MOSS based on Sharepoint Services and has some extra components which really enrich/enpower Sharepoint Technologies.
Portals (Make easy to build portals)
Enterprise search (extensive and extensible content gathering, indexing, and querying ability)
Business Intelligence (Utilize excel, outlook, wordprocesser,.. services)
Collaboration and Social Computing (WIKI, RSS, Blogs,…)
Business Process and Forms (provides built-in electronic forms and workflow templates)
Enterprice Content Management System (ECM used to manage high volume of unstructured contents)
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer (MOSD)
Developer tool to customize, develop sharepoint based contents/components like webparts, web pages, workflows,…. It provides WYSIWYG which provides precise rendering of XHTML , CSS and ASP.NET Technologies.
