WSS vs MOSS

This article provides a comprehensive comparison of features present in WSS vs those in MOSS 2007. How we nail these features down? This is going to be an interesting question.

Let us install first WSS on our PC and visit this directory:

C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATESFEATURES

What you see is the list of features that are supported by WSS. We wrote a batch file that lists all the directories to a text file. Thereafter, we installed MOSS and did the same activity and this comparison is the result of this exercise.

WSS

MOSS

AdminLinks AnnouncementsList BasicWebParts ContactsList ContentLightup ContentTypeSettings ctypes CustomList DataSourceLibrary DiscussionsList DocumentLibrary EventsList fields GanttTasksList GridList IssuesList IssueTrackingWorkflow LinksList MobilityRedirect NoCodeWorkflowLibrary PictureLibrary SiteSettings SPSearchFeature SurveysList TasksList TeamCollab UpgradeLinks WebPageLibrary WikiWelcome WorkflowHistoryList WorkflowProcessList XmlFormLibrary

AddDashboard Analytics AnalyticsLinks BaseSite BaseSiteStapling BaseWeb BaseWebApplication BDCAdminUILinks BDR BizAppsCTypes BizAppsFields BizAppsListTemplates BizAppsSiteTemplates BulkWorkflow BulkWorkflowTimerJob DataConnectionLibrary DataConnectionLibraryStapling DeploymentLinks DMContentTypeSettings EawfSite EawfWeb EnhancedHtmlEditing ExcelServer ExcelServerSite ExcelServerWebApplication ExpirationWorkflow FeaturePushdown GlobalWebParts GradualUpgrade Hold ipfsAdminLinks IPFSAdminWeb IPFSDocumentConversion IPFSSiteFeatures IPFSWebFeatures LegacyDocumentLibrary ListTargeting LocalSiteDirectoryControl LocalSiteDirectoryMetaData LocalSiteDirectorySettingsLink MasterSiteDirectoryControl MigrationLinks MySite MySiteBlog MySiteCleanup MySiteHost MySiteLayouts MySiteNavigation MySiteQuickLaunch Navigation NavigationProperties OffWFCommon OSearchBasicFeature OSearchCentralAdminLinks OSearchEnhancedFeature OSearchPortalAdminLinks OSearchSRPAdminLinks OsrvLinks OsrvTasks OssNavigation OSSSearchSearchCenterUrlFeature OSSSearchSearchCenterUrlSiteFeature PageConverters PortalLayouts PremiumRootSite PremiumRootSiteStapling PremiumSite PremiumSiteStapling PremiumWeb PremiumWebApplication ProfileSynch Publishing PublishingLayouts PublishingPrerequisites PublishingResources PublishingSite PublishingStapling PublishingWeb RecordsManagement RedirectPageContentTypeBinding RelatedLinksScopeSettingsLink ReportCenterCreation ReportCenterSampleData Reporting ReportListTemplate ReviewWorkflows SearchAndProcess SearchWebParts TranslationWorkflow TransMgmtFunc TransMgmtLib UpgradeOnlyFile UserMigrator ViewFormPagesLockDown WebPartAdderGroups SharedServices SignaturesWorkflow SitesList SkuUpgradeLinks SlideLibrary SlideLibraryActivation SpellChecking SPSDisco SpsSsoLinks SRPProfileAdmin StapledWorkflows

Thanks to Tejas Warudkar and Hemant Kumar for helping me with this.