How to programmatically highlight WSS and MOSS

Question

I need to know if I work with SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server when using the SP API. Is there a way to do this in code (C #)?

Answer 1

You can check if the build version is different using SPFarm.BuildVersion:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spfarm.buildversion.aspx

Answer 2

Send a Karine Bosch blog post “Determine if MOSS is installed by checking the registry key . ” This should help.

Answer 3

Remember that even if MOSS is installed on the server, it is quite possible that for sites / site collections on which your code should work, only WSS functions are activated. Thus, an alternative way is to check if certain MOSS functions are available on the server, and maybe even check if they have been activated. A good candidate would be the publishing feature, which only comes with MOSS.