Journey to the center of SharePointVoyage au centre de la SharePoint

Vasu Srinivasan, NIC, Texas.govAustin SharePoint Users Group (ASPUG)

about:me

Vasu Srinivasan

M.S. Computer Science, Russia (c. 1990s)Senior Technology Consultant, Texas NIC (Texas.gov)

SharePoint sites contributed to: texas.gov, oregon.gov, pa.gov and a few intranet/extranet sites

Twitter & LinkedIn: vasya10Tech Blog: vasya10.wordpress.com#AustinSPUG-ger since Jan 2012

What can you learn about SharePoint in 10 minutes?

SharePoint is • a product• a platform• a cloud• an ecosystem

Take a tour of the vibrant SharePoint eco-system in 10 minutes

Journey begins…from a volcano not far from Redmond

Earth’s Layers

C o n ti n e n t a l C r u s t

O c e a n i c C r u s t

M a n t l e

O u t e r C o r e

I n n e r C o r e

Earth consists of many layers. So does SharePoint.

Continental CrustThe SharePoint continental crust consists of many continents• Content Management• Document Management• Records Management• Identity Management• Business Intelligence and BCS• Search• Office365• Workflow

Several continents are still forming• Social• eDiscovery

Creatures that fly over this surface• MVPs, MCPs, MCAs• SharePoint Architects• Bloggers and Tweeters• Podcasters• Keynote Speakers

Tools they use• PowerPoint• Social Networks• Surface

Earth’s Continental Crust: Layer of igneous and metamorphic rocks SharePoint Continental Crust: Layer of ingenious rockstars

Oceanic CrustCreatures that roam this layer• SharePoint Admins• SQL Server Admins• IIS Admins• Network Engineers

Trespassers• Developers

Tools used• PowerShell• Central Admin• and many weird tools

Earth’s Oceanic Crust: Part of lithosphere that surfaces in oceanic basins. Primarly composed of sima, thinner but denser than continental crust.

SharePoint Oceanic Crust: The fundamental crust that supports the ecosystem

The SharePoint oceanic crust is also known as The Farm

Deep under the sea, mostly invisible to the outside world

Primarily composed of several servers known as DB Servers, App Servers, Web Front Ends, Search Index Servers etc.

MantleThe layer where the SharePoint solutions reside, and usually are classified as ootb, 3rd-party, codeplex and customized

Just as an unstable mantle can cause earthquakes, a poorly formed solution with unplanned governance and untested usability can cause SharePoint-quakes

Creatures that roam in this depth• Developers• Designers

Tools they use• Visual Studio• SharePoint Designer• NAPA

Earth’s Mantle: Layer between crust and outer-core. Predominantly solid, but behaves like viscous liquid over a large timeframe.

SharePoint Mantle People: Predominantly nerdy, but behavior-wise very social

Outer CoreRight below the Mantle, lies the Outer core, what in SharePoint world, consists of site collections, sites, pages, lists, libraries, documents etc.

This is the layer where Business Users have the ability to create sites and content without having to ask IT Staff

Savvy business users also create their own workflows and keep IT service out of their way

Creatures that permeate the Outer Core

• Power Users

Frequent visitors

• DevOps

Aliens and Occasional visitors

• PowerShell Gurus• Information Architects

Earth Outercore: Without the outercore, life on Earth would be very different. SharePoint Outercore: Without the PowerUsers, life on planet SharePoint would be very

different.

Inner CoreMost people dwell on the surface of SharePoint and never realize how important the inner core is

At the inner core of SharePoint, that is the most important part of the SharePoint eco-system, reside the Users

A CMS designed and built keeping the end-users at the core has a better chance surviving and appreciated

Creatures of the Inner Core

• End Users• Your Customers• Your Partners• Your Clients

Creatures that should visit this area• Everyone

Earth’s inner core: Though appearing homogenous, is not completely uniform. SharePoint inner core: Though appearing homogenous, is the most varied part of the ecosystem

Are we there yet?The more you learn about Earth, the more you realize that it is really such a wonderful, unique planet in all the known Universe.

The more you learn about SharePoint, the more you realize that it is such a wonderful, unique Content Management System, among many CMS.

Welcome to World of SharePoint

ReferencesImages and Geological information – thanks to wikipedia.org