what is sharepoint and why you should care

WHAT IS SHAREPOINT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

Todd KlindtSolanite Consulting

WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius Personal Blog

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Got up too early this morning.

Who is this guy?

For Developers, By DevelopersIowa Code Camp

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What is SharePoint? The marketing folks will tell you it is a

collaboration platform It makes it easy for knowledge workers to

collaborate with each other The can create their own sites Easy to create and add content Tight integration with Microsoft Office System Good for them, good for IT.

What is SharePoint? Computer nerds will tell you it is an

ASP.net application that sits on top of IIS Easily extensible with ASP.net Provides easy to use web part framework Uses master pages Uses ASP.net pluggable authentication And more

What does SharePoint 2007 have to offer?

Two versions Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)

Included with Windows Server 2003 license Can use SQL 2005 Embedded or SQL 2005

Standard/Enterprise Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)

Licensed on top of Windows Everything WSS has and more

WSS Basis for SharePoint’s collaboration

Site Templates Team Sites Wikis Meeting workspace Document workspace

Document collaboration Check in/check out Versioning

WSS Email Integration

Email alerts sent when content changes Lists and libraries can receive email

IM client integration Mobile device support Search Security trimmed UI Two stage Recycle Bin Item level permissions

MOSS Builds on top of WSS, so it includes

everything WSS has Improved Search

All site search People search Business Data Catalog Relevance Crawl and index external content

MOSS Shared Services Provider

My Sites Excel Services

Allow users to publish spreadsheets They can be consumed without Excel

InfoPath Forms Services Profile Services

Decide what information is public Business Intelligence

SAP, Seibel, SQL, etc.

MOSS Social networking

Individuals with similar expertise can find each other

RSS can be consumed Content from other sources can be included

on pages Site Directory

Site map including external Content Deployment

Content can be moved around for publishing

MOSS Information Rights Management support

SharePoint makes sure Office clients observe IRM

Records repository Auditing, expiration of records

More site templates Portals: Enterprise, Corporate, Application

And much, much more

SharePoint and DNN Web Parts are like modules Master Pages work like skins Feature set is very similar SharePoint has better Office integration SharePoint scales better Bil Simser has a good comparison

between them

Demo

Enough yakkin’, let’s take a walk around SharePoint…

Why SharePoint?

• Data Storage • Presentation• Security• Clustering• Data Access• Features

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What do SharePoint and Iowa have in common?

Farms!

SharePoint Containment

ItemsFiles, calendar items, contacts, customers, images, custom

Lists

Doc Lib, Pages, Events, Discussions, Surveys, etc…

Sites

Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Mtg

Site Collections

Internet, Intranet Portal, Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Mtg

Databases

Content, Config, SSP, SearchWeb Applications

Central Admin, SSP Admin, Content

Servers

Web Front End, APP, SQL

Farm

Don’t choose Basic in Production

What magic can you make with SharePoint?

Web Parts Web Services Event Handlers Fancy workflows STSADM extensions Custom controls Content types

Always, Always, Always package your creations as Solutions and Features.

What can I do Monday Morning?

Buy my book Put my blog in your Favorites Download WSS, MOSS or MOSS VHD Download the SDKs Grab Visual Studio Extensions for

SharePoint Grab some code at Codeplex

Q & A and Demonstrations

References & Links My Blog Download WSS v3 Download MOSS 2007 Download free MOSS virtual machine SharePoint overview WSS and MOSS comparison DNN and SharePoint comparison

Even more Links for your clicking pleasure

WSS SDK MOSS SDK STSDEV Codeplex Project 40 Application Templates Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint Inside SharePoint Administration Real World SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to WSS v3 by Todd Ble

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