Todd Klindt Solanite Consulting

 WSS MVP since 2006  Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius  Personal Blog  Company web site   Got up too early this morning. 

 For Developers, By Developers XXXX  For Developers, By a lowly admin

 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.

 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

 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

 Basis for SharePoint’s collaboration  Site Templates  Team Sites  Wikis  Meeting workspace  Document workspace  Document collaboration  Check in/check out  Versioning

 Integration  alerts sent when content changes  Lists and libraries can receive  IM client integration  Mobile device support  Search  Security trimmed UI  Two stage Recycle Bin  Item level permissions

 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

 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.

 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

 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

 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

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

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Items Files, calendar items, contacts, customers, images, custom Lists Doc Lib, Pages, Events, Discussions, Surveys, etc… Sites Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Mtg Site Collections Internet, Intranet Portal, Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Mtg Databases Content, Config, SSP, Search Web Applications Central Admin, SSP Admin, Content Servers Web Front End, APP, SQL Farm

 Web Parts  Web Services  Event Handlers  Fancy workflows  STSADM extensions  Custom controls  Content types  Always, Always, Always package your creations as Solutions and Features.

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