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Microsoft Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 . Agenda. Introductions Overview Installation [Demo] Tour [Demo] Extensibility Q&A. Introductions. About RedTech Founded in 1995 Over 100 employees Brett Stallman Walt Morrison. Productivity Hub Overview. On-premise “Office Online”
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Agenda Introductions Overview Installation [Demo] Tour [Demo] Extensibility Q&A
Introductions • About RedTech • Founded in 1995 • Over 100 employees • Brett Stallman • Walt Morrison
Productivity Hub Overview • On-premise “Office Online” • Educate users about Microsoft Office • Provide learning roadmaps and forums • Make it easy to add content / products • Help evangelize SharePoint • Free download from the Download Center • Leverage document libraries, discussion boards, search • Highlight Extensibility • Make it appealing / engaging • Silverlight components • Ratings and Favorites • Video content • Coaches and Quizzes
Productivity Hub 2007 Originally released January 2009 to Microsoft download center Included custom WSP for ratings Difficult to extend / add content Specialized builds developed for USAF and BPOS Leveraged publishing features, dataviews, and managed properties for search
Productivity Hub 2010 Originally released July 2010 to Microsoft download center Back to basics on branding Leverages native ratings Simplified installation and extensibility Leverages Silverlight and dataviews Content tags to faciliate search refinements Adds Quizzes and “Get It Done” content
DEMO Productivity Hub Installation
DEMO Productivity Hub 2010
SharePoint 2010 Lessons Learned Posted ratings aren’t available until timer job runs; by default this is hours, not seconds SharePoint Designer 2010 Page corruption, data loss, and crashing not uncommon. For dataviews, take the XSL out of the page and refer to it via link; export web parts often and/or copy page content into VS for safekeeping. Team Site default is now Wiki – we used the team site template with wiki feature disabled
CodePlex http://productivityhub.codeplex.com/ Silverlight Bookshelf Silverlight Carousel Productivity Hub Migration tools
Extensibility It’s just SharePoint – customize it! Tailor the Silverlight components Rebrand it and used to it to feature different content See it live:http://www.spsdemo.com/sites/productivity/
SharePoint Video Links YouTube Link / Embed Code Yahoo Embed Code Vimeo New / Old Embed Code AOL Embed Code HULU Embed Code Google Embed Code for CNN & Sky News DEMO Video Blog