MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Overview

2. BAS212 MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Overview Arpan Shah Director, SharePoint Technical Product Management Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans

3. Session Agenda • SharePoint Technology Strategy • What is “SharePoint”? • SharePoint Technology Overview • Feature Overview • Customizing your SharePoint Solutions • SharePoint Community and Training

4. The IT DilemmaMeeting the needs of business while managing cost and complexity One World of Business Collaboration Nomadic Workforce Transparent Organizations Regulatory Compliance Access to Information People Drive Success Changing Workforce Demographic Changes Projected Talent Shortfall Always On, Always Connected Work and Family Life Balance Information Overload

5. Example: Changing workforce • 2006 Time Magazine’s Person of the Year • YOU! • Social computing is hot • Facebook • Digital pictures, music, videos • iPods/Zunes, YouTube • Blogs, Wikis very popular • Web 2.0 buzz

6. The Long Tail Tail The set of products that caters to more specific user segments. Popularity Products Head The set of popular products that caters to broad user segments.

7. IT Solutions Web Portals (Structured content) Highly Structured Enterprise Repositories Tail The set of applications and unstructured content (typically) that caters to teams. User Base Departmental solutions (Structured & Unstructured) Collaboration Team Sites (Unstructured content) Empowerment Head The set of applications and structured content (typically) that caters to large audiences.

8. IT Challenges Regulatory Compliance Repository Extranet Collaboration Site R&D Community Sales Division Portal Corporate Web Presence Knowledge Management Portal Employee Portal Geneva Office Site Business Intelligence Dashboard Project “X” Site Team “ABC” Site Custom SAP Front-End My “Facebook”

9. SharePoint Strategy Corporate Web Presence • Single Business Productivity Platform leading to common: • End-user Experience • Rich Integrated Capabilities • Toolset and Development • Deployment and Management Employee Portal Knowledge Management Portal Regulatory Compliance Repository Users Sales Division Portal Custom SAP Front-End Business Intelligence Dashboard R&D Community Geneva Office Site Extranet Collab Site My “Facebook” Team “ABC” Site Project “X” Site Corporate Departments Teams Empowerment

10. Your Strategy Corporate Web Presence Employee Portal Knowledge Management Portal Regulatory Compliance Repository Users Sales Division Portal Custom SAP Front-End Business Intelligence Dashboard R&D Community Geneva Office Site Extranet Collab Site My “Facebook” Team “ABC” Site Project “X” Site Corporate Departments Teams Empowerment

11. Your Strategy Corporate Web Presence Employee Portal Knowledge Management Portal Regulatory Compliance Repository Users Sales Division Portal Custom SAP Front-End Business Intelligence Dashboard R&D Community Geneva Office Site Extranet Collab Site My “Facebook” Team “ABC” Site Project “X” Site Corporate Departments Teams Empowerment

12. Microsoft example (represents a small sample size) Users My Site Corporate Departments Teams Empowerment

13. SharePoint Anatomy Web Application Basic structure for hosting SharePoint site collections. Site Collection Container for multiple hierarchical SharePoint sites; basic unit for Management. Web/Site Basic structure that contains content such as document libraries and lists. Shared Service Provider MOSS component that hosts common application components and settings. SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Policy @ http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=92311&clcid=0x409

14. Site Anatomy Documents Library Image Web Part KPI Web Part PPT Slide Library Task List

15. Roles and Training

16. SharePoint 2007 Feature Areas Business Intelligence Collaboration Portal Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Platform Services Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control BusinessForms Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Content Management Search Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow

17. Platform Services Intranet Deployment Governance Model Corporate Business Taxonomy With Divisional Stakeholders Permanent Central Portal Enterprise Search Enterprise Browse Central Portal Permanent Division Portals Business Process Management Division News Group Reporting & Scorecards Semi Structured Group & Team Sites Ad Hoc Self Service w/ Life Cycle Management Short Lived Collaboration Per AD User Blogs, bios, aggregation

18. Platform Services Platform Services • Platform Improvements • ASP.NET 2.0 - web parts, master pages, pluggable authentication • Customization enhancements – templates, feature extensibility • Windows Workflow Foundation • List enhancements – scale, content types, versioning • User Experience • Improvements to usability, navigation, trimming, customization • Office integration • Manageability • Improved backup \ restore including wastebasket and VSS support • Extranet deployment with ADFS and reverse proxy support • Full and side-by-side upgrade

19. Collaboration Collaboration

20. Collaboration Core improvements Tracking and project management Document library improvements Anywhere access Office integration Keeping informed with Alerts and RSS Mobility Community and Communication Wikis & Blogs Email and Discussions People and Groups Collaboration

21. Office Integration Fair, Good, Better, Best Experience with Office Pre-XP, XP, 2003 and 2007 respectively Outlook 2007 Improvements include Read/Write access to SharePoint data types Calendar, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents Synchronization for offline support Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across sites Word, PowerPoint and Excel Improvements include Blog directly from Word 2007 PPT Slide Libraries Document Information Panel Excel + Excel Services Integration Collaboration More information in the Fair, Good, Better, Best WP @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0d05a69-f67b-4d37-961e-2db3c4065cb9&DisplayLang=en

22. Portal Portal

23. Portal Investment Areas Portal Site Integration with Windows SharePoint Services Intranet Portal Template – Topics, Site Directory Social Networking My Sites, Presence, Tracking Targeting and personalization Easier targeting – Distribution lists and Security Groups Profile store improvements Scalability, flexible schema, LDAP synchronization Portal

24. Portal My Site Public with User Profile

25. Portal My Site Privatewith Social Networking and Roll-Up Social network Roll-up from relevant sites

26. Portal Portal Interoperability OOB Web Parts* Web Page Custom WPs RSS Web Services Web Services BDC LOB System Database * OOB Web Parts include: RSS Web Part, SAP iView Web Part, Data View Part, WSRP Consumer Web Part, Page Viewer Web Part, BDC Web Parts, Search Federation Web Parts **Search protocol handlers can index content from external repositories

27. Search Search

28. Relevance Top results on first page, every time Enterprise Search different from Internet Search Less of rich linking Lots of non-web content – Office docs, line-of-business data, etc. Security is paramount Revamped ranking engine Extensive collaboration with Microsoft Research and MSN New ingredients tuned for the enterprise Search

29. Search End User Experience • Search Center • Standard tabbed interface • Search Basics • Query hit highlighting • Search syntax matching de facto standards • Duplicate collapsing • “Did you mean” query correction • Editorial results (Best Bets) and definitions • Alerts • More…

30. Search Announcements Microsoft Search Server 2008 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express Search Connectors to ECM Documentum and IBM FileNet (available sometime this half) announcing

31. Introduction Search Server 2008 • Updated and rebranded version of SharePoint Server 2007 for Search • Key investment areas and new features • Simplified Installation Experience • Enhanced Administration Interface • New Federation Capabilities • Performance and Stability Enhancements • No Preset Document Limits • Available in 2 versions • Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS) • Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (MSSX) • Download RC from http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch

32. Content Management Content Management

33. Enterprise Content Management

34. Investments Policy and Compliance Centrally controlled auditing, expiration & retention policies Archival, retention and regulatory compliance E-mail content as records Web Content Management Designed for Internet and Published Sites New Web and Word Authoring capabilities New Content Deployment and Publishing tools Content Management

35. Investments Document Management Scalable Document Libraries and Repositories Security and Tracking Workflow and Approval Out of box multi-stage Serial and Parallel document workflows Integrated with email and Office 2007 desktop applications Customizable through Windows Workflow Foundation Content Management

36. Business Processes BusinessProcesses

37. Forms Services Investments Reach more users with better forms Browser enabled InfoPath forms Offline data connections, New controls, Better printing Intranet, Extranet, Internet Automate form-driven business processes Forms in Outlook, including Property Promotion Workflow, Archiving, Information Rights Management Integration with Workflow Tasks Rapidly develop and deploy form solutions in the enterprise Common development platform (OM, data connectivity) ActiveX, Windows Form and ASPX control Importer/Exporter Framework BusinessProcesses

38. Business Intelligence Business Intelligence

39. Investments Business Intelligence • Excel Services • Share spreadsheets via zero-footprint browser experience • Live, interactive Excel 2007 spreadsheets in SharePoint • Only publish what you want, control versions • Use Excel models in custom applications programmatically

40. Investments Business Intelligence • Dashboards & Web components • Common filtering (“slicing”) across web parts • KPIs, Excel workbooks, and SQL 2005 Reporting Services reports • Report Center Websites • Out of the box website optimized for report access and management • Consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connection • Integrated with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services • Data Connection Libraries & Business Data Catalog • Centralize storage of important data connections

41. Supporting SharePoint Customizations • Code • Features • Site Definitions • Custom web parts • Custom field controls • _layouts pages • Deploy Solutions where possible • Content • Lists/libraries • Content pages • Master pages • Page layouts • Content Deployment feature

42. SharePoint Customization: Features • Collection of SharePoint elements that enables special functionality • Can be activated and deactivated on site collections/sites • Example: Publishing Infrastructure feature • Creates lists • Provisions files in the database • Adds custom field types • Adds custom content types • Installing is different than Activating!

43. SharePoint Customization: Solutions • Packages up SharePoint collateral • Features • Assemblies • Site Definitions • Etc. • Synchronizes across front ends • Reusable • Upgradable • Localizable • Does not activate features!

44. SharePoint Communitybeyond MSDN and TechNet • SharePoint Team Blog • http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint • SharePointPediabuilt on SharePoint! [new] • http://www.sharepointpedia.com • CodePlex • http://www.codeplex.com • Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) • Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) • SharePoint Community Portal • http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint • SharePoint Forums • http://www.mssharepointforums.com

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48. SharePoint Continuous Innovation

49. Transformation to Software + Services Control & ownership Customization Rapid scalability Advanced managability On-Premise Hosted Service