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What is SharePoint and why you should care

What is SharePoint and why you should care. Todd Klindt Solanite Consulting. Who is this guy?. WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius Personal Blog www.toddklindt.com/blog Company web site www.solanite.com E-mail todd@solanite.com Got up too early this morning. .

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What is SharePoint and why you should care

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  1. What is SharePoint and why you should care Todd Klindt Solanite Consulting

  2. Who is this guy? • WSS MVP since 2006 • Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius • Personal Blogwww.toddklindt.com/blog • Company web sitewww.solanite.com • E-mailtodd@solanite.com • Got up too early this morning. 

  3. Iowa Code Camp XXXX • For Developers, By Developers • For Developers, By a lowly admin

  4. What is SharePoint? • The marketing folks will tell you it is a collaboration platform • It makes it easy for knowledge workers to collaborate with each other • The can create their own sites • Easy to create and add content • Tight integration with Microsoft Office System • Good for them, good for IT.

  5. What is SharePoint? • Computer nerds will tell you it is an ASP.net application that sits on top of IIS • Easily extensible with ASP.net • Provides easy to use web part framework • Uses master pages • Uses ASP.net pluggable authentication • And more

  6. What does SharePoint 2007 have to offer? • Two versions • Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) • Included with Windows Server 2003 license • Can use SQL 2005 Embedded or SQL 2005 Standard/Enterprise • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) • Licensed on top of Windows • Everything WSS has and more

  7. WSS • Basis for SharePoint’s collaboration • Site Templates • Team Sites • Wikis • Meeting workspace • Document workspace • Document collaboration • Check in/check out • Versioning

  8. WSS • Email Integration • Email alerts sent when content changes • Lists and libraries can receive email • IM client integration • Mobile device support • Search • Security trimmed UI • Two stage Recycle Bin • Item level permissions

  9. MOSS • Builds on top of WSS, so it includes everything WSS has • Improved Search • All site search • People search • Business Data Catalog • Relevance • Crawl and index external content

  10. MOSS • Shared Services Provider • My Sites • Excel Services • Allow users to publish spreadsheets • They can be consumed without Excel • InfoPath Forms Services • Profile Services • Decide what information is public • Business Intelligence • SAP, Seibel, SQL, etc.

  11. MOSS • Social networking • Individuals with similar expertise can find each other • RSS can be consumed • Content from other sources can be included on pages • Site Directory • Site map including external • Content Deployment • Content can be moved around for publishing

  12. MOSS • Information Rights Management support • SharePoint makes sure Office clients observe IRM • Records repository • Auditing, expiration of records • More site templates • Portals: Enterprise, Corporate, Application • And much, much more

  13. SharePoint and DNN • Web Parts are like modules • Master Pages work like skins • Feature set is very similar • SharePoint has better Office integration • SharePoint scales better • Bil Simser has a good comparison between them

  14. Demo Enough yakkin’, let’s take a walk around SharePoint…

  15. Why SharePoint? .NET SharePoint Custom Development Out of the Box • Data Storage • Presentation • Security • Clustering • Data Access • Features • Data Storage • Presentation • Security • Clustering • Data Access • Features

  16. What do SharePoint and Iowa have in common? Farms!

  17. SharePoint Containment

  18. Don’t choose Basic in Production

  19. What magic can you make with SharePoint? • Web Parts • Web Services • Event Handlers • Fancy workflows • STSADM extensions • Custom controls • Content types • Always, Always, Always package your creations as Solutions and Features.

  20. What can I do Monday Morning? • Buy my book • Put my blog in your Favorites • Download WSS, MOSS or MOSS VHD • Download the SDKs • Grab Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint • Grab some code at Codeplex

  21. Q & A and Demonstrations

  22. References & Links • My Blog • Download WSS v3 • Download MOSS 2007 • Download free MOSS virtual machine • SharePoint overview • WSS and MOSS comparison • DNN and SharePoint comparison

  23. Even more Links for your clicking pleasure • WSS SDK • MOSS SDK • STSDEV Codeplex Project • 40 Application Templates • Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint • Inside SharePoint Administration • Real World SharePoint 2007 • Developer’s Guide to WSS v3 by Todd Bleeker

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