THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

I'm stealing this from an email Chad made about the difference between WSS and “our” Sharepoint: 

Please note, if you have been told that the SBS sharepoint questions should only be answered in the SBS newsgroup, I do have to apologize for our Communities sometimes.  We do tend to be territorial sometimes.

You want to know the difference between WSS Team Site on SBS & the default WSS Team Site  on a straight Win2k3 box?  Here you go:

Document Libraries:

• WSS on Win2k3 includes a ‘Shared Documents’ library.
• WSS on SBS includes a ‘General Documents’ library, ‘Projects’ library, ‘Archived Documents’ library, and a ‘Presentations’ library.

What’s the difference between these libraries?  Nothing.  It’s the exact same result as if you created each of these libraries in WSS on Win2k3 using the default Document Library Template.

Now WSS on SBS also has an Incoming Faxes document library, which as we know integrates with the SBS Shared Fax.  This is a regular document library that has been customized – but only in the sense of customizing the fields.  The SBS Shared Fax does all of the heavy lifting for integrating with WSS – not the other way around.

Photo Libraries –

• WSS on SBS includes a ‘Company Photos’ photo library.  This was created using the default WSS Photo Library template.  Nothing special.
• WSS on Win2k3 does not include any pre-created Photo Libraries.

Lists –

WSS on SBS includes a Help Desk and Vacation Calendar.  WSS on Win2k3 includes a Contacts list and a Tasks list.  So what is the Help Desk?  Nothing but a customized Issues list.  Create a new Issues list, remove the Category, Related Issue and Comment fields.  Add an Assigned To field (lookup on the built-in Users list), a % Complete field (number value in Percent format), a Description field (multiple lines of text / allow HTML content), and a Due Date field (Date/Time).

So what’s the net change?  Besides having a few different items pre-created for us (which are no different than the ‘Shared Documents’, ‘Contacts’ and ‘Issues’ lists pre-created on WSS on Win2k3), we have two custom lists (‘Incoming Faxes’ and ‘Help Desk’) that are saved as templates.  There is ZERO code variance between WSS on SBS and WSS on Win2k3.  As a matter of fact, anyone running WSS on Win2k3 could manually create the exact WSS environment on Win2k3 that we have on SBS – and that would not compromise their ability to get support or complete normal WSS administration tasks include backup and restore.