SharePoint Service Architecture
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003
With SharePoint Portal Server 2003, the SharePoint architect had only one service to deploy; Enterprise Search. This service was associated to your portal at the farm level.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
From SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the total number of Enterprise Services increased from one (1) to six (6).
The enterprise services consisted of: Enterprise Search, Audience Targeting, Profile Import & MySites, Excel Services, Reporting, Business Data Catalog.
Enterprise services are no longer deployed at the farm level. A new level of granularity gave architects the ability to consume enterprise services at the Web Application level.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010
With SharePoint 2010, we no longer have to deal with the concept of Shared Services Providers and Shared Services. The Service Application architecture is the next iteration in Microsoft’s deployment of enterprise-level services for SharePoint 2010. What were six (6) services in MOSS 2007 have now blossomed into sixteen (16) services in SharePoint 2010.
Here are the services: Access Services, Application Discovery & Load Balancer, Business Data Connectivity, Enterprise Search, Excel Services, Fast Search, Managed Metadata, PerformancePoint, PowerPoint, Secure Store, Security Token, User Profiles, Visio Graphics, Web Analytics, Word Automation, Word Viewing.<o:p></o:p>
