Introduction to SharePoint 2007 By Suha Mneimneh

Agenda What’s SharePoint? SharePoint Components Recommendations Installing SharePoint on Various OS Creating SharePoint Web Application

What is SharePoint? SharePoint Server 2007 is a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Any organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to: facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes. You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business data.

What is SharePoint? Moss 2007 is built on WSS 3.0 ,framework 3.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) . To sum it up following are the offerings of MOSS 2007 to its users: One Extensible Integrated Solution to manage Internet , extranet and web applications across the organization Better and easy way of managing Information across the organization Accelerate Business processes. Effective way to search and find information across Better control over data.

Sharing of information through blogs, wikis, emails, calendars  Sharing of information through blogs, wikis, emails, calendars. Effectively apply information to your needs Having access to KPIs, dashboards and reporting data, and programmatic access to published Office Excel spreadsheets include features that are useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, corporate Internet Web sites, and divisional portal sites allows users to fill out InfoPath forms by using a web browser, providing rich user interface web forms based easy to maintain by users provides us better way to manage content that includes documents , email messages , video , instant messages , web pages etc… lets users go beyond documents and across repositories to unlock information, find people, and locate expertise in the enterprise.

Case Study

Daily Activity GM Developer 1 Architect Developer 2 Analyst Announcements - New Project Gather Requirement Trainings GM Developer 1 Shared Documents Proposal Software Specification Architect Developer 2 Calendar Issue Changed Requirement Task Create Page Login Create Main Page Unit Test Fix Bug Analyst

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) Web-based application Stores all information in an MS SQL database Displays information using web parts Document-management features Build workflow solution Index and search engine Lists and libraries can operate as RSS Feeds Creating Wiki and Blog sites Add-on to Windows 2003 Server

Installation Requirements Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2005 .Net Framework 3.0 and 3.5 WSS 3.0 (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86

Site Settings Change title, Description and Icon Site Change Site Theme New Top Link Bar New Link on Quick Launch

Developer Tools

WSPBuilder (SharePoint WSP Tool) A SharePoint Solution Package (WSP) creation tool for WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007 No more manually creating the manifest.xml file. No more manually specifying the DDF file. No more using the makecab.exe application. http://wspbuilder.codeplex.com/

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