Brent Johnson
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What is the difference between Sharepoint and IIS?
Hello Experts,
Can someone briefly tell me what the difference is between Sharepoint and IIS?
Which one is better?
I want to create a central location for various employees to post internal news and have access to a centralized calendar for various users to post events or schedule the use of rooms and make it visible to all employees. I need to be able to restrict access to modify events on the calendar by specified users. Which of these programs would be better suited for my needs?
Thanks in advance.
Can someone briefly tell me what the difference is between Sharepoint and IIS?
Which one is better?
I want to create a central location for various employees to post internal news and have access to a centralized calendar for various users to post events or schedule the use of rooms and make it visible to all employees. I need to be able to restrict access to modify events on the calendar by specified users. Which of these programs would be better suited for my needs?
Thanks in advance.
Sharepoint is more designed for doing what you are requesting. It has permission capability, and calander type modules. As well as file repositories.
IIS is just a web server for hosting a site. Sharepoint utilizes it, but offers a lot more features and functionality.
You really need to determine what level of sharepoint you need. There is a free version, Windows Sharepoint Services, and a paid/licensed version that offers a lot more features.
IIS is just a web server for hosting a site. Sharepoint utilizes it, but offers a lot more features and functionality.
You really need to determine what level of sharepoint you need. There is a free version, Windows Sharepoint Services, and a paid/licensed version that offers a lot more features.
also - exchange will do what you want and integrate with outlook
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Well said by the above expets, to add to it.
Go through the below Wiki links to explain you more about the Microsoft's webserver and Its Sharepoint Web application platform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint
Go through the below Wiki links to explain you more about the Microsoft's webserver and Its Sharepoint Web application platform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint
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Would I need to purchase SQL server in order to run the free verson of SharePoint? Also, I would need to be running IIS in order to run SharePoint?
No, you don't need SQL Server to use Sharepoint it comes with its own Internal Database you can use that if you don't have a valid SQL server in your environment.
And also regarding IIS as already stated IIS is a prerequisite to run sharepoint as it runs on IIS and is built to work on top of it.
And also regarding IIS as already stated IIS is a prerequisite to run sharepoint as it runs on IIS and is built to work on top of it.
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Perfect. How do I go about acquiring the free version of Share Point?
Hi,
from the installation options, a "standalone" installation will install SQL Server 2008 Express edition. I would recommend to install SQL Server 2012 Express edition and run a "farm" installation of SharePoint foundation, because 2008 Express has a database limit of 4GB whereas 2012 has a limit of 10GB per database.
And yes you would have to run IIS because thats the infrastructure software that will execute the SharePoint ASP.NET code.
HTH
Rainer
BTW:
The older version of SharePoint (WSS 3.0) had a modified SQL server version called Windows Internal Database which had no size limitations.
from the installation options, a "standalone" installation will install SQL Server 2008 Express edition. I would recommend to install SQL Server 2012 Express edition and run a "farm" installation of SharePoint foundation, because 2008 Express has a database limit of 4GB whereas 2012 has a limit of 10GB per database.
And yes you would have to run IIS because thats the infrastructure software that will execute the SharePoint ASP.NET code.
HTH
Rainer
BTW:
The older version of SharePoint (WSS 3.0) had a modified SQL server version called Windows Internal Database which had no size limitations.
Download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5970
SQL 2012 Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29062
HTH
Rainer
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5970
SQL 2012 Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29062
HTH
Rainer
I would NOT recommend using WSS 3.0 !
You should also either run SharePoint Foundation SP1 after a successful installation or create a slipstream installation folder:
http://mikefrobbins.com/2011/07/28/slipstream-sp1-into-microsoft-sharepoint-foundation-2010/
HTH
Rainer
You should also either run SharePoint Foundation SP1 after a successful installation or create a slipstream installation folder:
http://mikefrobbins.com/2011/07/28/slipstream-sp1-into-microsoft-sharepoint-foundation-2010/
HTH
Rainer
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Thanks so much. This helped me out greatly.
iis is a web server for publiching information or web pages
sharepoint will do what you want