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What is Windows SharePoint Services?
WSS is short for Windows SharePoint Services and is a free component of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. WSS is also provided as a free download here.
WSS is a great starter SharePoint component you can use for information and documents management as well as a team collaboration tool.
Information management of WSS allows you to create discussions and surveys, share documents, and implement a simple social computing in the enterprise—blogs & wikis.
Document Management allows you to upload and manage documents in various formats like Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, etc. WSS 3.0 supports item level security and document securities can be set accordingly.
WSS as a collaboration tool allows you to create a team site and add your team members to collaborate through discussions, surveys, share documents, post content, and share any other information among team members.
Windows SharePoint Services is already a powerful collaboration tool used in organizations and depending on your scalability needs, WSS should is enough for organizations with common day to day collaboration requirements.
Common download pages related to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1
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