Farvashan's SharePoint Blog [ MVP ]

As you know we have two products related to Share Point technology, WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) & OSS (Office SharePoint Server previously named SharePoint Portal Server or SPS).

OSS implemented on top of WSS and adds a huge set of features and facilities to the great foundation of WSS, but OSS uses WSS as its core technology.

Also we know that WSS is a free license software as a service by Windows Server 2003, and we can implementing  a large scale of collaborations and business solutions based on SQL Server, Active Directory, WSS & Visual Studio 2005.

All these tools help us implementing solutions and running enterprise projects so fast and with a minimum budget!

As a solution provider of these technologies with a 5 enterprise and operational projects based on WSS (can see details on about), I'm an adviser to my colleagues: only use OSS when you really need at least 30% of its features.

I think we can use WSS for  free to implement a huge set of solutions and applications, and we can implement some features of OSS that you really needed on it (especially on the WSS3), remember that OSS implemented on top of WSS, and you can do same, but we must decide a trade off by time and budget, as a result: if you need just some small features of OSS, you can use WSS and add that features on top of it instead of using OSS.

Briefly , use of OSS have some loads about money, administration,  maintenance and most important: training of users to use, and I advise choose it only on the really enterprise organizations and only when you need at least 30% of its facilities.

In other projects you can use WSS for free as a slim, really functional & stable platform, and it has a wide object model, letting us adding almost any features we need!

As you know we have two products related to Share Point technology, WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) & OSS (Office SharePoint Server previously named SharePoint Portal Server or SPS).

OSS implemented on top of WSS and adds a huge set of features and facilities to the great foundation of WSS, but OSS uses WSS as its core technology.

Also we know that WSS is a free license software as a service by Windows Server 2003, and we can implementing  a large scale of collaborations and business solutions based on SQL Server, Active Directory, WSS & Visual Studio 2005.

All these tools help us implementing solutions and running enterprise projects so fast and with a minimum budget!

As a solution provider of these technologies with a 5 enterprise and operational projects based on WSS (can see details on about), I'm an adviser to my colleagues: only use OSS when you really need at least 30% of its features.

I think we can use WSS for  free to implement a huge set of solutions and applications, and we can implement some features of OSS that you really needed on it (especially on the WSS3), remember that OSS implemented on top of WSS, and you can do same, but we must decide a trade off by time and budget, as a result: if you need just some small features of OSS, you can use WSS and add that features on top of it instead of using OSS.

Briefly , use of OSS have some loads about money, administration,  maintenance and most important: training of users to use, and I advise choose it only on the really enterprise organizations and only when you need at least 30% of its facilities.

In other projects you can use WSS for free as a slim, really functional & stable platform, and it has a wide object model, letting us adding almost any features we need!

I'm getting so excited announcing you, new generations of share point technology and Microsoft office systems are ready to download J

First of all you can download Windows Share Point Services V 3 Beta 2 here:

Windows SharePoint Services 3 Beta2

Especial thanks to the Share Point Team Blog for the links above.

Also on the Share Point Team Blog you can find WSS Language Packs for some other languages, and I'm so excited about how can I create a language template pack for my language? I think there are some Tools for creating language packs, but I know nothing about that, if you hear any articles about that please let me know.

Good news for solution providers, developers and value-added resellers like me, 

Windows SharePoint Services V 3: Software Development Kit  is here for download.Also:

SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit

And for IT professionals that have no time for downloading and configuring 2007 release of Microsoft office systems, get ready to new generations of Microsoft Share Point and Office technologies out for a test drive here.

These products will be included in the test drive:

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (previously named Microsoft Front Page)Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (includes Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services)Microsoft Office Word 2007 Microsoft Office Access 2007 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft Office Project 2007 Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access

I'm getting so excited announcing you, new generations of share point technology and Microsoft office systems are ready to download J

First of all you can download Windows Share Point Services V 3 Beta 2 here:

Windows SharePoint Services 3 Beta2

Especial thanks to the Share Point Team Blog for the links above.

Also on the Share Point Team Blog you can find WSS Language Packs for some other languages, and I'm so excited about how can I create a language template pack for my language? I think there are some Tools for creating language packs, but I know nothing about that, if you hear any articles about that please let me know.

Good news for solution providers, developers and value-added resellers like me, 

Windows SharePoint Services V 3: Software Development Kit  is here for download.Also:

SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit

And for IT professionals that have no time for downloading and configuring 2007 release of Microsoft office systems, get ready to new generations of Microsoft Share Point and Office technologies out for a test drive here.

These products will be included in the test drive:

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (previously named Microsoft Front Page)Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (includes Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services)Microsoft Office Word 2007 Microsoft Office Access 2007 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft Office Project 2007 Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access

We have two big simultaneous issues, about developing software and designing IT systems, in my country.One of them our main policy from the government about working based on the open source technologies, because unfortunately no direct contact with the US government.The other is bad integration of open source technologies, with the other great Microsoft technologies, especially side of users and clients. As you know in the small to midrange business it's almost impossible developing systems without using the Microsoft technologies.We must always choose a trade off between them; I think for the small to midrange business needs we have no other choice but Microsoft technologies.Finally  I strongly advise to my colleagues and IT professionals from my country, that if  you decided Server 2003 for operating system of your network, and using the great functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and using the strange tools of software developing of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 by .Net Framework 2 and especially if your users uses the Microsoft Office as there office applications, of course without any discuss, your collaboration tools, Document management, Enterprise Content Management( ECM), Enterprise Project Management(EPM), and your software development platform will be the Windows Share Point Services.

We have two big simultaneous issues, about developing software and designing IT systems, in my country.One of them our main policy from the government about working based on the open source technologies, because unfortunately no direct contact with the US government.The other is bad integration of open source technologies, with the other great Microsoft technologies, especially side of users and clients. As you know in the small to midrange business it's almost impossible developing systems without using the Microsoft technologies.We must always choose a trade off between them; I think for the small to midrange business needs we have no other choice but Microsoft technologies.Finally  I strongly advise to my colleagues and IT professionals from my country, that if  you decided Server 2003 for operating system of your network, and using the great functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and using the strange tools of software developing of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 by .Net Framework 2 and especially if your users uses the Microsoft Office as there office applications, of course without any discuss, your collaboration tools, Document management, Enterprise Content Management( ECM), Enterprise Project Management(EPM), and your software development platform will be the Windows Share Point Services.

I have an idea to WSS 2.0 as sn LMS/LCMS ( Learning Management System / Learning Content Management Server ) for e-learning solution.

I'm sure Microsoft will provide next generation of it's learning solution based on SharePoint as a successor of Class Server.

I have an idea to WSS 2.0 as sn LMS/LCMS ( Learning Management System / Learning Content Management Server ) for e-learning solution.

I'm sure Microsoft will provide next generation of it's learning solution based on SharePoint as a successor of Class Server.