SharePoint 2010: Building an enterprise public website Vinod Unny Enterprise InfoTech Microsoft Regional Director

Agenda Understanding Public Site Requirements Setting up a SharePoint Internet Site Customizing the Site

UNDERSTANDING REQUIREMENTS

Public Facing SharePoint Sites SharePoint can be used for Internet facing sites Provides CMS capabilities OOB –Workflows –Anonymous Access –FBA –and more…

SharePoint 2010 Requirements SharePoint requires a full 64-bit stack –Windows Server 2008/R2 –SQL Server 2008/R2 POP Quiz –What’s the difference between 32-bit and 64- bit?

Requirements for Public Sites SharePoint on the Internet requires –SharePoint 2010 Standard or Enterprise … –… but in a special edition SharePoint for Internet Sites – Standard or Enterprise –No technical difference between comparable editions –Licensing Difference only Standard Edition can host only a single domain + subdomains –Valid: extranet.xyz.com; pictures.xyz.com –Invalid: Enterprise can host multiple domains or FAST search –Not both on a single license

SETTING UP A INTERNET SITE

SharePoint Features Claims-based Authentication Overview Web Application Creation Configuring the Authentication Store

Authentication Store To use FBA, you need to use CBA Simplest: ASP.NET Membership Store You can roll your own as well: –Say OpenID or any other provider Binding required for: –Central Admin –Secure Store Web Service –Your Public Web App

Steps 1.Setup an ASPNET DB store 2.Configure Connection String to store 3.Configure.NET Users and.NET Roles 4.Add at least 1 FBA admin user 5.Repeat 2-4 for each binding 6.Set Membership and Role provider for site

DEMO Configuring an Internet site for FBA and Anonymous Access

CUSTOMIZING A PUBLIC SITE

Content Management Different types of content –Articles –Blogs –Jobs –Products –… Workflows for content publishing Managing the content Displaying different views of the content

SharePoint Features for WCM Publishing Templates –With and Without Workflows Anonymous Access –To Pages –Not to Lists and Libraries Authentication –Forms Based (as in ASP.NET) –Windows Based Master Pages Site Columns Content Types Page Layouts

DEMO A walkthrough of the default publishing template

Site Columns Think of them as “fields” in an RDBMS SharePoint defines a number of site columns Define your own columns for getting or showing some data Used in Content Types

Content Types Think of them as “Tables” in an RDBMS Contains a number of site columns that make up the data/page content In case of a Publishing site, you need to start from a base content type of Page or Article Page Add your own site columns as you wish

Page Layouts This defines how your Content Type is presented to the visitor You can have multiple page layouts for each content type SharePoint allows you to switch page layouts on the fly Combines with a master page and data in the content type to display a page

Master Page Page Layout Site Column 1 Site Column 2 Site Column 3 Web Parts

DEMO Adding Site Columns Setting up a new Content Type Creating a new Page Layout

Adding Content Page is an “instance” of a Page Layout Can dynamically switch layouts Add content directly on the page View/Edit Properties in a Form Or use the EditModePanel Save & Publish –Might start a workflow

DEMO Adding Content Note: Workflows are turned off for brevity

Display Content The Content Query Web Part is your friend Use CQWP with site columns for enhanced views of data You can customize the default templates with XSL

DEMO Rolling up content using CQWP

Master Pages Publishing sites have master pages Master pages have special ContentPlaceHolders Custom Master pages must have all the placeholders even if you’re not using them

DEMO Changing the Master Page

Things not covered Globalization & Localization Variations Routing using Content Organizer Web Analytics

Some Outstanding Case Studies

Questions? My Contact Information: Vinod Unny Enterprise InfoTech

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