|
Term |
Definition |
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Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) |
Alternate Access Mapping allows the
administrators to configure SharePoint so the users can access
SharePoint sites using different URLs. For example, with AAM you can map
multiple internal URLs to a single public URL using one of 5 different
authentication zones. |
|
Application Pool |
Grouping of one or more IIS Web sites served by a worker process. |
|
Application Server |
An
Application Server runs query and index services, Excel services, and
project management. It must run at least one Shared Services Provider. |
|
Blog |
A
blog, short for Web Log, is a user-generated site in which the user logs
journals or articles. |
|
Business Data Catalog (BDC) |
The
Business Data Catalog is a shared service in MOSS 2007 that provides the
capability of exposing back-end data to a portal site. It allows you to
connect your business data systems to MOSS 2007 and use data from those
systems in SharePoint. |
|
Content Type |
A Content Type is a reusable collection of settings
that can be applied to certain categories of content. Due to the ability
to centrally manage and reuse the metadata of a document type, Content
Type makes it easier for users to organize their SharePoint content. For
example, instead of adding workflows and events to multiple documents or
libraries, you can simply associate them to a Content Type. |
|
Digital Rights Management (DRM) |
DRM
is also known as Information Rights Management (IRM) and can be applied
to documents to control what users can do or not do with the document. |
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Excel
Services |
Responsible for server-side calculation and thin rendering of Excel
workbooks. |
| Farm |
One or
more Web servers and back-end servers that share a single configuration
database. |
|
List |
A
generic term that defines various places that SharePoint can use to
place content. You can create your own Lists or use some of the built-in
Lists, such as Document Libraries, Picture Libraries, etc. |
|
Metadata |
Data
about data. Sometimes referred to as the property of data. Some metadata
may be hidden while other is visible to the users. In SharePoint,
metadata represents views, contents, and columns. |
|
MOSS |
MOSS
is an add-on to WSS and offers additional functionality that is not
available in WSS, such Excel Services, Enterprise Search, InfoPath Form
Services. |
|
My
Sites |
Personalized SharePoint sites for individual users. These are enabled by
default. |
|
Shared Services Provider (SSP) |
SSP
provides a common set of services to a logical grouping of Web
Applications and their associated sites. All newly created Web
Applications are added to the default SSP but you can move them to a
different SSP if you want. |
|
Single Sign-On (SSO) |
Single sign-on functionality allows users to
authenticate only once when they access applications in SharePoint that
need to obtain information from other business applications and systems. |
|
Site
Collection |
A set
of Web sites that have a common owner. A site collection shares all the
administrative settings. There is a top-level site for each site
collection. All other sites are created below the top-level site |
|
Sites |
One
or more Web pages that are published inside a site collection. |
|
SQL
Server |
Structured Query Language (SQL) Server that stores most of the MOSS and
WSS content in its database. |
|
STASADM |
A
command-line utility that comes with WSS. It allows you to run
administrative tasks and script batch files. By default, STSADM.EXE is
located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server
Extensions\12\Bin folder. |
|
Taxonomy |
An
architecture that defines how you group content and metadata into a
logical structure for your audiences. It’s a structured way of labeling,
tagging, and ordering words so the users can locate information easily
on a Web site. |
|
Web
Part |
Web parts are reusable componenets that can be
customized to display specific information on a Web page. |
|
Web
Application |
An
IIS Web site. This is created by SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Each Web application is represented by a separate IIS Web site. |
|
Web
Front End (WFE) |
WFE
run WSS Web Applications. Users connect to the WFE that typically run
IIS services and may also run incoming e-mail services. |
|
Wiki |
Wikis
are running commentaries on a subject where users can edit the content
with SharePoint’s built-in Content Editor so they do not require
knowledge of HTML. In a business environment, wikis are typically used
to brainstorm ideas and collaborate without any official content editing
or formal approval. |
|
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) |
A
free product from Microsoft that comes with Windows Server 2003. It
offers the basic SharePoint functionality, such as Lists and Document
Libraries. It builds on .NET Framework 3.0 to render visual output to
the users, provides the authentication foundation components and some of
the content rendering in SharePoint. |
|
Workflow |
A
workflow is a WSS feature that allows you to attach business processes
to items in SharePoint Products and Technologies. A common example is a
workflow that routes a document to a series of users for their approval.
Workflows can be created in SharePoint Designer using the Workflow
Wizard. For creating more complex workflows you will need to use Visual
Studio. |
