Agenda

1. First LookMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Russ BasiuraRJB Technical Consultingwww.sharepointspecialists.comruss@rjbtech.com

2. Agenda Customer Challenges Microsoft’s Vision Microsoft’s Strategy Feature Areas Overview

3. Business Impact Islands of information and applications Slow responsiveness to business and user needs Costly custom development and maintenance Poor sharing inside and outside the organization Difficult to find the right content, data, and people Increasing information management risk

4. SharePoint Vision Employees Customers Partners Team Collaboration Internet Presence HR, Finance, etc. Enterprise Portal Personal XML Web Services Business Applications (SAP, data warehouse, custom . . .)

5. Leverage the Market Momentum Broad platform adoption Portal and collaboration leadership Growing developer community Growing number of SharePoint applications and Web Parts

6. SharePoint Feature Areas Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists BusinessIntelligence Collaboration Platform Services Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable Enterprise single sign-on My Sites, social networking, privacy control, content targeting and aggregation, People & Personalization BusinessProcess &Forms 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 PartnerSolutions Portal Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, content aggregation, LDAP integration, composite applications

7. Platform Services User Experience Improvements to usability, navigation, trimming, customization 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 Manageability Improved backup / restore including wastebasket and VSS support Extranet deployment with ADFS and reverse proxy support Full and side-by-side upgrade Seamless integration with Office SharePoint Server 2007 Provisioning, security, navigation, search Platform Services Pre-release software, subject to change

8. Content Management Content Management Document Management Records Management Policy and Compliance Web Content Management

9. Documents 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

10. Records and Web Content 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

11. Scalable Document Repositories Content Management Manage large document sets with treeview Establish enterprise-approved content types Manage document approval with integrated workflow Search for documents through metadata

12. Capturing Rich Metadata Content Management Customizable Document Information panel based on InfoPath technology Define required metadata in content type definition Capture meta data as part of authoring process

13. Reusing Content – Slide Library Content Management “Tag” and store slides for re-use by others. Alerts in PowerPoint if slides in a presentation have been updated Access the slide library from within the presentation

14. New Web Authoring Console Content Management Browse available content assets

15. Portal Investment Areas Portal Site Integration with Windows SharePoint Services Intranet Portal Template – Topics, Site Directory People and Expertise Search People specific search “tab” Social network support My Site Improved Public Page, Personal homepage Targeting and personalization Easier targeting – Distribution lists and Security Groups Profile store improvements Scalability, flexible schema, LDAP synchronization Portal

16. My Site Public with User Profile Portal Organizational network User Profile

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

18. Forms ServicesEnables organizations to… reach more customers, partners and suppliers with user friendly forms. accelerate form-driven business processes through data integration. rapidly develop and deploy sustainable form solutions. BusinessForms

19. 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 BusinessForms

20. Investments Business Intelligence SharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users • Excel Services • Share spreadsheets via zero-footprint browser experience • Live, interactive Excel 2007 spreadsheets in SharePoint • Only publish what you want, control versions Pre-release software, subject to change

21. Investments Business Intelligence SharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users • Dashboards & Web components • Common filtering 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

22. Excel Services Business Intelligence Pivot Tables KPIs from SQL Graphs & Charts Zero-footprint, interactive, browser access to spreadsheets TableFormatting

23. Knowledge Discovery and Insight Business Intelligence Live Excel spreadsheets KPI Lists Business Intelligence Dashboards Common Filters

24. Report Center

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

26. Document Library Improvements Check-out documents locally Offline document libraries in Outlook Major/Minor version tracking Version management Multiple content type support Tree view support Collaboration

27. Outlook Integration Outlook allows user to work with personal and team data in one place Read/Write access to SharePoint datatypes Calendar, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents Synchronization for offline support Users can ‘check out and edit’ documents when offline. Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across sites Improved calendar SharePoint’s calendar module with richer calendar views, recurrence support, all-day events, and more Collaboration

28. Security Trimmed UI Commands only available when logged in user has permissions to access

29. 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

30. 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… Search

31. Search Center Search Tab through different vertical search types Completely customizable page – here with Site Directory Web Part Pre-release software, subject to change

32. Better Search Results Search Tabbed interface “Did you mean” query correction Alerts on search results Query hit highlighting Pre-release software, subject to change

33. Across RepositoriesCustomer Search Search Customer data from SAP system

34. Across RepositoriesPeople Search Search People from employee directory DLs and SharePoint groups Results organized by social distance

35. Licensing E-Forms services Spreadsheet publishing & reporting Business data integration Collaboration portal + content management Document lifecycle capabilities Enterprise search enhancements Data Integration E-Forms Data Mgmt & Reporting Search • Business data • Mgmt, publishing, process creation and completion • Business data library • Web part integration • Spreadsheet publishing & calculation • Report Center Enterprise CAL Workflow Site Model, Security, and Management Document &Web Content Management • Policy • Management • Auditing • Records management • Personalization • Deployment • Site Manager • 5 out of box workflows • reporting for ECM • Extensible and customizable search of enterprise content and people Standard CAL Project Mgmt Team Collab • Issue tracking applications • Project workspaces • Framework: repository, versioning, metadata • Basic document management • Text search of team sites • Site and role management infrastructure • Workspaces and tools • Blogs • Windows Workflow Foundation • Admin and deployment • Status and history Windows SharePoint Services*

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37. About RJBTech RJB Technical Consulting specializes in delivering SharePoint services and solutions that allow companies to conduct business and collaborate quickly and efficiently.

38. About RJBTech • RJB Technical Consulting • Founded in 1995 • Microsoft Certified Partner • Information Worker Competency • Specialists in SharePoint • SharePoint 2007 Private Beta Partner • http://www.rjbtech.com • http://www.SharepointSpecialists.com • SharePoint Specialists include Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers and Engineers and Trainers • Sponsor / Operate PhillySharePoint User Group

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