what is sharepoint and why you should care
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What is SharePoint and why you should care. Todd Klindt Solanite Consulting. Who is this guy?. WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius Personal Blog www.toddklindt.com/blog Company web site www.solanite.com E-mail [email protected] Got up too early this morning. . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WHAT IS SHAREPOINT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Todd KlindtSolanite Consulting
WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius Personal Blog
www.toddklindt.com/blog Company web site
www.solanite.com E-mail
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
eker