My PM recently asked this question. I wasn’t able to answer to this question. What a embarrassment!
I knew that by looking at the web site URL, we can at least identify that it is built using SharePoint. Wondering how to identify. Well all the Internet sites created using SharePoint will have ‘Pages’ in their address. There you go I told it! But again there is a catch here. What if some intelligent developer uses FURL to play with the URLs and remove that ‘Pages’ thingy. We can still figure out whether the site is a SharePoint one by viewing the page source. I know this is quite tricky as you need understand the mark-up.
Still I didn’t answer the question. You know why? Because I don’t know! Folks if any of you know how to find out if the site is created using SPS or MOSS, please take time to leave a comment.
Thanks in advance.
Well, when I click “HELP” (on a site) it tells me I am using Sharepoint 2007 or WSS 3.0….
Comment by poppedinmyhead — September 17, 2007 @ 8:09 pm
Excellent
thanks for the tip. But I want to know the version of a public facing internet site not an intranet site
Thanks for reading my blog.
Jag
Comment by Jag — September 18, 2007 @ 12:34 am
We are using public facing internet sites only…
Comment by poppedinmyhead — September 18, 2007 @ 2:49 pm
How about if WSS 2.0 sites have been upgraded to WSS 3.0 by restoring a config db? The help files will still say 2.0…
Comment by oscil8 — September 4, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
Hi
In Mauro Cadelli’s blog there is a list of 2 task that response this.
Basically in add / remove programs can see the version.
link to blog: http://blogs.officezealot.com/mauro/archive/2005/08/24/7824.aspx
Comment by Euclides — November 5, 2008 @ 2:17 am
CGNbLQ comment4 ,
Comment by andry — May 8, 2009 @ 5:03 am
If you have the access, goto the central admin site hmoe tab. Then select site actions, site settings
Comment by Rich Ellis — June 9, 2009 @ 4:54 am
Basically what Rich said. Go to central admin, and I prefer the “Operations > Servers in Farm” route as it allows me also to make a spot check that all are the same
Comment by Markymark — July 22, 2009 @ 7:20 pm
Looking at the Server in Farm you can say what level of Service Pack you got. Thanks for the comment Mark.
Ciao
Jag
Comment by Jag — July 22, 2009 @ 8:08 pm