SharePoint Web Serivces

WSS Web Services	Web Reference
Administration Service	http://<server-url:port-number>/_vti_adm/admin.asmx
Alerts Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/alerts.asmx
Document Workspace Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/dws.asmx
Forms Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/forms.asmx
Imaging Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/imaging.asmx
List Data Retrieval Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/dspsts.asmx
Lists Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/lists.asmx
Meetings Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/meetings.asmx
Permissions Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/permissions.asmx
Site Data Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/sitedata.asmx
Site Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/sites.asmx
Users and Groups Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx
Versions Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/versions.asmx
Views Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/views.asmx
Web Part Pages Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/webpartpages.asmx
Webs Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/webs.asmx
Area Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/areaservice.asmx
Query Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/search.asmx
User Profile Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx
SPS Crawl Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/spscrawl.asmx
Outlook Adapter Service	http://<server-url>/_vti_bin/outlookadapter.asmx

WSS Web Services	Description
Administration Service	This Web service provides administrative capabilities like creating a new top-level site, deleting a top-level site and getting the list of available languages.
Alerts Service	Provides access to the list of active alerts and allows to delete active alerts.
Document Workspace Service	This Web service is used to manage Document Workspace sites. It allows you to create new document workspaces, delete document workspaces, create new sub-folders, delete sub-folders, and so forth.
Forms Service	Each list has forms associated which are used to display list items, create new list items, and update or delete existing list items. This Web service allows to get the collection of forms associated with a list and then get detailed information about each form.
Imaging Service	SharePoint has picture libraries that users can use to manage pictures. This Web service allows to upload pictures, download pictures, create new folders, delete folders and pictures, and the like.
List Data Retrieval Service	Allows you to run XPath like queries against a list.
Lists Service	This Web service is used to work with lists and list data. You can obtain the collection of lists, add new lists, remove lists, add new list attachments, remove attachments, and so on.
Meetings Service	This Web service is used to work with Meeting Workspaces. You can create a new Meeting workspace, remove an existing Meeting workspace, add new meetings, add new meetings using ICal files, and so forth.
Permissions Service	Sites and lists have permissions assigned to them. This Web service is used to obtain the permissions assigned to a list or site, add new permissions, and update or removing existing permissions.
Site Data Service	The Site Data Web service can be used to return meta-data about a site or list, get the collection of lists, get the attachments for a list item, get the collection of items in a list, and so on.
Site Service	This Web service can be used to return the list of site templates. When you create a new site using the Administration Web service you need to specify the site template name to use that you can obtain through this Web service.
Users and Groups Service	This Web service is used to work with users, site-groups and cross-site groups. You can add, update or remove users, site-groups, and cross-site groups. You can also add users or cross-site-groups to a site-group.
Versions Service	Document Libraries and Picture Libraries can have versioning enabled, which stores a copy of every single file version. This Web service can be used to get the list of available versions, delete versions, and also restore a file version.
Views Service	Lists have views associated that define what fields are shown, what filtering and sorting is applied, what grouping is applied, and so on. This Web service is used to work with list views. You can get the collection of views, add new views, remove views, update the Html code used to display a view, and the like.
Web Part Pages Service	Web Parts are objects that you can place on Web part pages. This Web service is used to work with Web parts and Web part pages. You can get the list of Web parts on a page, you can add or remove Web parts, and so forth.
Webs Service	This Web service is used to work with sites and sub-sites. You can get the list of list-templates, get meta-data about a sub-site, get the list of sub-sites, and so on.
Area Service	Areas are sections used in SharePoint Portal Server to group content. This Web service allows you to manage areas. You can create new areas, update areas, remove areas, get the list of sub-areas, and so forth.
Query Service	The Query Web service is used by clients to search SharePoint. You can send in complex search XML requests and get a result-set of matches.
User Profile Service	Users in SPS have user profiles that are used to target content to audiences (users). This Web service allows you to obtain user profile information. It does not allow you to create or modify user profiles.
SPS Crawl Service	This Web service is undocumented and is used by SharePoint itself for site crawling purposes.
Outlook Adapter Service	Provides the same capabilities as the Alerts Web service of WSS.