Griffon Solutions Introduction To Share Point What Can I Do With It

INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT

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MARCH 8, 2009GRIFFON SOLUTIONS | WWW.GRIFFONSOLUTIONS.COM | [email protected]

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Agenda

Major Areas of SharePoint

Intranet, Internet, and Extranet

Site Collections, Subsites, and Workspaces

Team Collaboration

Lists and Libraries

Content and Metadata

Search

Personalization and Audiences

Web Parts

Workflow

Enterprise Features





The SharePoint Pie

Component - Demos

Windows SharePoint Services

MOSS 2007 Standard

Moss 2007 Enterprise





SharePoint can used in many different environments

Each environment supports its own

Authentication and Authorization model

Look and feel

Functionality

Content

Information can be shared between environments via Web Content Management

Unified platform means managing these different environments is much easier than usual




Site Collections, Subsites, and Workspaces

Web Application is hidden in SharePoint

Site Collection is the “top level” site, can have 50,000 per Content Database

Under a site collection root you can have any number of sub sites

Each root or sub site can have its own pages, permissions, master page and theme, and functionality, and is based on a site definition that defines its available components

Workspaces are more transitory sites for document collaboration

Much of SharePoint work is spent planning, and configuring, these logical elements




Team Collaboration

Team members can share information within a team site

Demo: Inviting person into Team Site

Demo: Document Workspace

Alerts allow team members to get email notification of content changes

RSS feeds allow them to subscribe to changes in a list or library

Blogs and Wikis are supported in SharePoint

Discussion Boards allow ad-hoc team discussions

Live Communicator can be embedded to show presence awareness




Lists and Libraries

List and Libraries are a core concept in SharePoint

They encapsulate content, permissions, functionality, and metadata

Libraries ARE lists

Lists have views that are customizable ways of displaying information

All Lists are available via their own URL

Lists can be used for lookup information for Metadata (Site Columns)

They are a bit like a table in a database containing many rows of information (but NOT relational!)




Content and Metadata

Documents

Allowed document types

Content Types

Site Columns

Library and List settings

Document Information Panel




Search

WSS vs MOSS Search

Advanced Search

New Federated Search

Shared Service Provider settings

Site Collection Scopes, Keywords, and Settings

Behind the scenes:

Indexer and iFilters

Content and Metadata database

Search (Query) servers




Personalization and Audiences

Web Part settings can be personalized (this is available in .NET 2.0 +)

There is a Shared View and a Personal View

SharePoint tracks personal preferences in its database

Audiences are a way of filtering content to SharePoint groups

Audiences are NOT Security




Web Parts

Special “configurable” components available in SharePoint

Core functionality in .NET 2 + inheriting from WebPart

Administrators enable in Farm and can add to pages

Allows end users / administrators to make property changes to configure deployed Web Parts

Web Parts can provide information to each other

Available WPs: Out of box, 3rd party, CodePlex community, or internally developed




Workflow

SharePoint uses .NET Framework’s Workflow Foundation

Can host any workflow written using WF

Demo: Out of Box Workflows

Demo: SharePoint Designer Workflow

Third party workflow products include Nintex and K2




Enterprise Features

Forms Services

Browser-based InfoPath forms

Easy to manage and deploy across a farm

Excel Services

Provides a browser-based shared Excel spreadsheet

More efficient way of sharing calculations and spreadsheets

Client does not require Excel to view

Business Data Catalog

Access to Line of Business (LOB) applications via XML-based Application Definitions

Way of “Surfacing” existing data in SharePoint

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Red light, green light for dashboards using information in lists, spreadsheets




Summary


Collaboration


Administration

Search

Lists and Libraries

Web Parts

Enterprise Features



Technology

Griffon Solutions Introduction To Share Point What Can I Do With It