WSS 3.0 Download Link

After a long hours of googling i found this link for WSS 3.0 download ,please try it and comment weather it works or not .

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/7/7/a7780e67-f21a-4265-a445-8ef1f19d223f/SharePoint_setup.exe

Page Parsing in WSS 3.0 and WSS 2.0

To start with the WSS 2.0  page parsing mechanism , WSS 2.0 was integrated with ASP.NET 1.1 using the ISAPI filter. Request from the client is directly routed to ISAPI filter before ASP.NET  mechanism in WSS 2.0 .This approach might not be the ideal  as its not possible to leverage complete funcionality of ASP.NET .

This Has been very well handled in WSS 3.0 where the ISAPI filter is removed and the request routing is done using HttpModule and HttpHandler .Advantage of this approach is that the request is handled by the ASP.NET runtime before it is forwarded to WSS processing mechanism.

 

To get insight details on this please check the following article by "Ted Pattison"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/07/WSS30Preview/default.aspx

MOSS 2007 Database

A simplest article which people tend to miss :) ..Database created by MOSS 2007 .Here it goes :

Once the MOSS 2007 is installed following databases are created :
Admin_Content database which store admin related content of central admin site

SSP database(Shared Service Provider ) :Stores data which needs to be shared by multiple sites

SSP Search Database

Configuration Database

Content database