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SharePoint is an integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. I am trying to highlight key difference between WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 and later SharePoint 2010. WSS 3.0 Vs MOSS2007: WSS 3.0 offers all the standard site templates to build team sites, document workspaces, blank sites, blogs, wikis, and meeting workspaces. You can also use WSS 3.0 to create people and group lists. You can integrate WSS 3.0 sites with Access 2007, Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, Word 2007 and PowerPoint 2007. You can create RSS feeds and set up alerts to notify you when content changes on a site. Version control, task notification and alerts all come with WSS 3.0 MOSS 2007 offers all of the features included in WSS 3.0. In addition, MOSS 2007 offers business intelligence features that allow you to track k...

Business Data Catalog, a new feature introduced in MOSS2007, provides an easy way to integrate business data from external database/web services , such as SAP, Oracle, SQL Server, Web Services or Siebel without writing any code. Business Data Catalog comprises a metadata database and an object model that provide a simple, consistent object-oriented programming interface for business logic that lives in the various business applications. To use BDC in MOSS we need to configure SharePoint Shared Service Provider. We can go to SharePoint Central Administration and select Shared Services Administration link. To create a new SSP use the following steps: 1. Click on New SSP 2. Fill in SSP Name [Lets name it "MyDefaultSSP"] and Associated Web Application 3. Select/Fill In Other necessary information based on your Farm settings 4. Click OK If you have multiple SSPs configured, you may change the web application association by selecting Change Association link at the top. After you ha...