Working with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web Services

The Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web services include methods for accessing content on a site, working with list or site data, and customizing meetings, imaging, document workspaces, and search.

Important Use the Web service APIs only; do not write code that accesses the class libraries, because you cannot run code on the Microsoft Office Live Small Business servers. For more information, see Best Practices for Developing Office Live Small Business Applications.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web Services APIs

For more information about which features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are available for use in Office Live Small Business and which are not, see About Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Features Used in Office Live Small Business. The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web services that are exposed in Office Live Small Business are shown in the following table. For information about using the methods of a Web service, click the appropriate link.

Web Service	Description	Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK topic
Alerts	For working with alerts for list items in an Office Live Small Business site.	Alerts Web Service
Copy	For copying items.	Copy Web Service
Document Workspace	For managing document workspace sites and the data they contain.	Document Workspace Web Service
Forms	For returning forms used in the user interface when working with the contents of a list.	Forms Web Service
Imaging	Enables you to create and manage picture libraries.	Imaging Web Service
List Data Retrieval	For performing queries against lists in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.	List Data Retrieval Web Service
Lists	For working with lists and list data. For more information and examples, see: How to: Automate List Addition How to: Use the Contact Map Sample How to: Use the Time Card Sample	Lists Web Service
Meetings	Enables you to create and manage Meeting workspace sites.	Meetings Web Service
People	For managing information about people.	People Web service
Permissions	For working with the permissions for a site or list.	Permissions Web service
SharePoint Directory Management	For managing directories.	SharePoint Directory Management Web service
Site Data	Returns metadata or list data from sites or lists in Windows SharePoint Services.	Site Data Web service
Sites	For returning information about the site templates for a site collection.	Sites Web service
Users and Groups	For working with users, site groups, and cross-site groups.	User and Groups Web service
Versions	For working with file versions.	Versions Web service
Views	For working with views of lists.	Views Web service
Web part Pages	For sending information to and retrieve information from XML Web services.	Web Part Pages Web service
Webs	For working with sites and subsites.	Webs Web service

Blocked Windows SharePoint Services API methods

Some Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 API methods that have the potential to break Office Live Small Business sites are not exposed in Office Live Small Business. The following table lists the methods that will either result in errors or return no results if used in Office Live Small Business.

API	Method	Result
Sites.asmx	Get Site Templates	Returns an empty list.
Webs.asmx	Customize Css	Results in an error.
Webs.asmx	RevertCss	Results in an error.
Meetings.asmx	CreateWorkspace	Results in an error.
Meetings.asmx	DeleteWorkspace	Results in an error.
UserGroup.asmx	AddUserToRole	Results in an error if strUserLoginName is not generated by Discovery.CreateUser.
UserGroup.asm	AddUserCollectionToRole	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	RemoveUserCollectionFromRole	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	RemoveUserCollectionFromSite	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	AddGroup	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	AddGroupToRole	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	AddUserCollectionToGroup	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	AddUserToGroup	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	RemoveGroup	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	RemoveGroupFromRole	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	RemoveUserCollectionFromGroup	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	RemoveUserFromGroup	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	UpdateGroupInfo	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	AddRole	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	AddRoleDef	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	RemoveRole	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	UpdateRoleDefInfo	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.
UserGroup.asm	UpdateRoleInfo	Results in an error; user collection operations are not supported.

Blocked Windows SharePoint Services RPC Methods

The following Windows SharePoint Services Remote Procedure Call methods are not supported in Office Live Small Business.

Blocked Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 RPC Methods	Results
Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions Remote Procedure Call method 'create service'	Results in an error; Web creation/deletion operations are not supported.
FrontPage Server Extensions Remote Procedure Call method 'remove service'	Results in an error; Web creation/deletion operations are not supported.
FrontPage Server Extensions Remote Procedure Call method 'set service meta-info'for vti_masterurl and vti_custommasterurl configuration values	Results in an error; Web creation/deletion operations are not supported.
FrontPage Server Extensions Remote Procedure Call method 'put document' for master and custom master pages	Results in an error; Web creation/deletion operations are not supported.
FrontPage Server Extensions Remote Procedure Call method 'remove document' for master and custom master pages	Results in an error; Web creation/deletion operations are not supported.
FrontPage Server Extensions Remote Procedure Call method 'get web struct'	Results in an error; Web creation/deletion operations are not supported.
FrontPage Server Extensions Remote Procedure Call method 'put web struct'	Results in an error; Web creation/deletion operations are not supported.