| WEB TABLE 1: Major WSS Web Services | |
| Web Service Filename | Description |
| Admin.asmx | Manages a deployment of WSS, including creating and deleting sites. |
| Alerts.asmx | Gets information about alerts and delete alerts. |
| AreaService.asmx | Manages portal areas and associated lists, listings, and libraries. |
| DspSts.asmx | Performs queries against lists. |
| Dws.asmx | Manages document workspaces and their contents. |
| Forms.asmx | Manages the forms associated with a list. |
| Imaging.asmx | Manages picture libraries. |
| Lists.asmx | Works with lists and list data. |
| Meetings.aspx | Manages meeting workspaces and their contents. |
| OutlookAdapter.asmx | Manages alerts that have been added to Outlook. |
| Permissions.asmx | Works with list permissions through site groups, users, and other entities. |
| Search.asmx | Queries the SPS index. |
| Sitedata.asmx | Works with list metadata and content. |
| Sites | Gets details about site templates. |
| SPSCrawl.asmx | Gathers information about the indexing service. |
| Usergroup.asmx | Works with users, site groups, and cross-site groups. |
| UserProfileService.asmx | Works with the SPS user profile. |
| Versions.asmx | Works with file versions in a document library. |
| Views.asmx | Manages the views associated with a list. |
| WebPartPages.asmx | Manipulates the Web Parts on a Web Part Page. |
| Webs.asmx | Manages sites and subsites. |