• Introductions of User Group Sponsors • STLUG Goals and Objectives• Announcements and News• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

• What’s new• License implications• Case Studies

• Break• A Closer look at Platform Services

Presented by Horizon’s Consulting

Agenda

Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

• Educate user group members about SharePoint technologies and licensing requirements.

• Enable Networking within the community.• Communicate best practices.• Keep the user community informed about new

products / solutions around the SharePoint Platform.

St. Louis User Group Goals / Objectives

• Website for user group• SharePoint resource documents

• SharePoint resource websites links• RSS Feeds

• Meeting Schedule• Past User Group Presentations

Watch for changes soon!

http://www.stlsug.org

• Upcoming Events • Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit

• 19-21 March 2007Orlando, FL

Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress• Aiim Expo Conference and Exposition

• April 16-19, 2007 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA

Register at - http://www.aiimexpo.com/aiimexpo2007/v42/index.cvn?

ID=10018

• Upcoming Web Events – March 2007• Wed, 14 Mar 2007

TechNet Webcast: Installing and Configuring Basic Search with SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Level 300)

• Fri, 16 Mar 2007 TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 200)

• Mon, 19 Mar 2007 TechNet Webcast: Security for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Level 200)

• Wed, 28 Mar 2007 TechNet Webcast: Extending Search Capabilities with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)

• View all Web Events – Future and On Demand Series at

http://www.microsoft.com/events/AdvSearch.mspx?EventsAndWebcastsControlName=As1%3AAdvSrc&As1%3AAdvSrc%3AAudienceID=0&As1%3AAdvSrc%3AProductID=353c4e9d-9e78-4435-a360-01bb7f540d17&As1%3AAdvSrc%3AEventType=LiveWebcast&As1%3AAdvSrc%3ACountryRegionID=en%7CUS%7CUnited+States&StateProvinceID=0&As1%3AAdvSrc%3ATimeframeID=-1&As1%3AAdvSrc%3ASearchFilter=%C2%A0+Go+%C2%A0

• Next Meeting • April 10th 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM • Microsoft’s St. Louis Office• Topic: Workflow

• Workflow and SharePoint designer• Workflow and Visual Studio

• Ongoing Schedule• 2nd Tuesday of every month• 8:00 to 12:00 am• Microsoft’s St. Louis Office

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 ( Moss 2007)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 ( Moss 2007)

Agenda

What’s functionally changed since 2003What’s technically changed since 2003What’s the difference between WSS 2007 and SharePoint 2007What’s the difference between Standard and Enterprise SharePoint

What’s Functionally Changed Since 2003

2003 WorkloadsCollaborationLimited Doc MgmtEnterprise Search

2007 WorkloadsCollaborationEnterprise Document and Records MgmtWeb Content MgmtEnterprise SearchProcess Automation (Forms and Workflow)Regulatory Compliance

What’s Technically Changed Since 2003

2003 Different code base between WSS/SPSTwo search engines.NET 1.1 or 2.0

2007 Single code base Single search engineLeverage .NET 2.0 fully

Master pagesBreadcrumbsChannels

Better browser supportReduce usage of ActiveX controlsCMS IntegrationLarger content database supportSupport for third-party authentication: LDAP, database

BusinessIntelligence

Windows SharePoint Services version 3

Collaboration

Search

PortalBusiness

Forms

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,

Topology, Site Model

ContentManagement

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data

visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts,

KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document management, records

management, and Web content management

with policies and workflow

Rich and Web forms based

front-ends, LOB actions,

enterprise SSO

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration,

offline docs/lists

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,

rich people and business

data search

Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking,

privacy control

BusinessIntelligence

SharePoint Server 2007 - Standard

Collaboration

Search

PortalBusiness

Forms

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,

Topology, Site Model

ContentManagement

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data

visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts,

KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document management, records

management, and Web content management

with policies and workflow

Rich and Web forms based

front-ends, LOB actions,

enterprise SSO

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration,

offline docs/lists

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,

rich people and business

data search

Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking,

privacy control

BusinessIntelligence

SharePoint Server 2007 - Enterprise

Collaboration

Search

PortalBusiness

Forms

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,

Topology, Site Model

ContentManagement

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data

visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts,

KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document management, records

management, and Web content management

with policies and workflow

Rich and Web forms based

front-ends, LOB actions,

enterprise SSO

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration,

offline docs/lists

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,

rich people and business

data search

Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking,

privacy control

BusinessIntelligence

SharePoint Server 2007 – For Internet Sites

Collaboration

Search

PortalBusiness

Forms

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,

Topology, Site Model

ContentManagement

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data

visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts,

KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document management, records

management, and Web content management

with policies and workflow

Rich and Web forms based

front-ends, LOB actions,

enterprise SSO

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration,

offline docs/lists

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,

rich people and business

data search

Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking,

privacy control

George Warren Brown (GWB) – at Washington University in St. Louis

Customer SynopsisGWB is one of the countries top ranked schools of Social Work. With six concentration areas of study, as well as more than four hundred field work opportunities and six leading-edge research centers, the Brown School’s program attracts masters and doctoral students from around the world.

Business SituationTo continue to advance its position in the market for social work education and research the Brown School was looking for ways to create more strategic, integrated and audience-specific communications through a variety of channels, including web and print.

Solution After evaluating several technical solutions, GWB and TOKY chose to partner with Oakwood Systems Group, who deployed a state-of-the-art website developed with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Moss incorporated all of the design elements provided by TOKY. “One of the most interesting aspects to the site is that it doesn’t look anything like a typical SharePoint site,” according to Oakwood's lead architect on the project, “yet it contains all of the flexibility that people familiar with SharePoint would expect.”

Technologies• Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

Results

• Reduce dependence on IT. Now users can create their own content – the

Web Master simply approves the new

additions.• The impact of the new

Web Site is measurable, GWB knows who is hitting their site and

what their behavior is while on the site.

• Working to tie together the Intranet and

Internet as phase II of the project, enabling

lean IT and communications

resources.

Mary Kay Global

Customer SynopsisMary Kay Global works through a 1.6 million-strong network of independent representatives to sell more than $2.2 billion worth of cosmetics and skin care products annually.

Business SituationMary Kay’s custom intranet search technology was not providing adequate value for its corporate users, who had difficulty locating information in a timely manner. Few employees used the search function, relying instead on manual processes and individual knowledge to find the forms and information they needed.

Solution Mary Kay implemented Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a 2-server farm, indexing the portal itself as well as downstream documents and information. Mary Kay’s IT department built a custom, streamlined user interface and configured Office SharePoint Server 2007 based on an extensive taxonomy review performed by another internal team.

Technologies• Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

Results

• Dramatically improved employees’

ability to find documents and

information • Increased worker

efficiency while searching for and

locating documents• Provided a search system that requires

little effort to manage and administer once

implemented