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Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group

Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group. Agenda. Quick Intro Announcements and News Enterprise Content Management in MOSS 2007 Authoring and Publishing Branding and SharePoint Designer Q&A. User Group Goal / Objectives.

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Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group

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  1. Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group

  2. Agenda • Quick Intro • Announcements and News • Enterprise Content Management in MOSS 2007 • Authoring and Publishing • Branding and SharePoint Designer • Q&A

  3. User Group Goal / Objectives • Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies • Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies • Transfer knowledge within the community • Communicate best practices • Introduce new products / solutions

  4. Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors • Inetium (www.inetium.com) • Twin Cites based Microsoft consulting company • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner • Practice Area focused on Information Worker Technologies • New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com) • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner • Training on many technologies • Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) • I’m guessing you’ve heard of them

  5. www.sharepointmn.com • Website for user group • SharePoint resource documents • SharePoint resource websites links • RSS Feeds • Meeting Schedule • Past User Group Presentations www.sharepointmn.com

  6. Community Kit for SharePoint • Site Template project for user groups • Currently in Alpha Release • MNSPUG website will be re-launched using the CKS

  7. News and Announcements • Public preview release of 2007 Microsoft Office System • Server and client applications available for download (requires registration) • More info at: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx • Beta Downloads  $1.50 + =

  8. News and Announcements • Surprise!! Kickstart Beta CDs will be available after the presentation TODAY! • Beta 2 TR (Technical Refresh) Update • Release date • Installation instructions

  9. News and Announcements • Minnesota CRM (Customer Relationship Management) User Group • Next Thursday, September 21st • 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM • Microsoft’s Bloomington Office (here) • Topics Include: • CRM Mobility • CRM Analyzer • SharePoint/CRM integration • Create a scorecard to view service/sales performance • Audience: • Business managers and IT professionals

  10. Upcoming Schedule • Next Meeting • October 11th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM • Microsoft’s Bloomington Office • Topics: TBD • Ongoing Schedule • 2nd Wednesday of every month • 9:00 to 11:30 am • Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

  11. Collaboration Portal Business Intelligence SharePoint 2007 – Key Microsoft Investment Areas • Business Intelligence • Collaboration • Search • Business Forms / Processes • Portals • Content Management Platform Services BusinessForms / Processes Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Content Management Search

  12. Overview – What is ‘content’?

  13. Content Management in SPS 2003 • Announcements • News • Content Editor Web Parts • Custom site templates (Blogs) • Web part pages • Creative use of lists and views • Branding cumbersome to implement and upgrade

  14. Content Management in MOSS 2007Authoring and Publishing

  15. New Site Templates • Corporate Intranet Site* • Internet Presence Web Site* • Blog • Wiki • Publication Site • Publication and Collaboration Site • * Only available as a site collection – not individual webs

  16. A typical page render • Welcome.aspx pageis requested • Page layout associated with page is retrieved • Master page associated with site is retrieved • Controls in pagelayout render content from page’s fields into the page Page Rendering http://foo.com/bar/pages/welcome.aspx Field Control Field Control Field Control Field Control Field Control Field Control Inherited from WSS Versioning Check-in&-out Content types Access control Workflow 2 Stage Undelete Link Fix-up Etc.

  17. Web Authoring • Page content authoring in context of the site • Menu-based and customizable Page Editing Toolbar • Out of the box field types and field controls • Full HTML editor (with optional constraints) • Image and link controls with pickers • Summary Link controls

  18. Web Authoring • Web Parts • Summary Links – quickly author, style and organize links on a page • Table of Contents – data driven views of • Content Query – data driven view of content across your site

  19. Reusable Content • Store and maintain reusable content fragments in a centralized SharePoint list • Fragments are inserted in a web page via an HTML editor and rich picker with content preview and configurable views • Store as references embedded inside the HTML content for each page • Resolve references at rendering time and support caching for high performance

  20. Smart Client Authoring • Convert Word documents to web pages within MOSS document libraries • Converted version of the file is saved in the web Pages library and remains tied to the source

  21. Content Deployment • Deploy content from one site collection into another site collection. The source and destination site collections can be in the same farm or in different farms. • Paths: A content deployment path defines a relationship between a source and destination site collection for content deployment. Once a path is created, jobs can be created and associated with the path to begin deploying content. • Jobs: A job is associated with a path, and defines the specific content to be deployed from the source to the destination, and the schedule on which the deployment should occur. • On the Central Administration Operations tab:

  22. Content Deployment • Controlled fromCentral Administration Operations tab: • Must set up Content Deployment Settingsbefore configuring Paths and Jobs • Create a Deployment Path • Create a Deployment Job (schedule) • Quick Deploy

  23. Break!

  24. Case StudyUnited Properties

  25. IntroducingSharePoint Designer

  26. Microsoft FrontPage Microsoft Expression Web SharePoint Designer 2007 • Advanced Web Site Design • Fancy CSS management • ASP.NET 2.0 based Web Sites • Apply fancy Expression capabilities to SharePoint Sites • Create and Manage Workflows • Advanced Content Management

  27. SharePoint Designer Overview

  28. Site Columns &Custom Field Definitions

  29. Site Column What: A centrally updatable column that can be reused on multiple sites. How: Created from the site settings administration pages. Based on an existing field type (text, choice, custom) Custom Field Definition What: Customized version of an existing field type where you control how the field is displayed and its behavior. How: .NET Class with a describing xml file deployed to the server

  30. Non-WCM Site Column/Field Definition Examples: • Divisions / Locations / Regions • Advanced lookup fields • WCM Examples: • Flash Content • Movie Content

  31. Content Types

  32. Content Types • Defines an object • Collection of site columns • Non-WCM Examples: • Expense Report • Proposal • WCM Examples: • Press Release • Article • Interview

  33. DemoCreating new Content Types and Page Layouts

  34. Master Pages

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