1. SharePoint 2007 By
Sam Nasr
August 29, 2006

2. Agenda
Introduction
Overview
New Features
Demo
Q&A
Survey & Raffle

3. Overview Used for creating web site portals Collaboration tool
Managing documents
Based on .Net framework and ASP.Net
Part of the MS Office suite but is purchased separately.
SharePoint 2007 is 3rd major release
Introduction:
Angie Lingk
Product specialist for Hosted Microsoft Solutions
Here today to talk about Berbee’s Hosted offering for Microsoft Solutions, focusing on Exchange 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services.

4. System Requirements

5. CMS/SPS/WSS Roadmap Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Content Management
Server 2002
Microsoft Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
SharePoint Portal
Server 2003
Windows SharePoint
Services v2
Windows SharePoint
Services “v3’

6. SharePoint Feature Areas
Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards
Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists
Business
Intelligence
Collaboration
Portal
Platform
Services
Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO
Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control
Business Processes
Workspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,
Topology, Site Model
For the Office 2007 SharePoint Servers, Microsoft focused investments in the “pie” shown here.
Content
Management
Search
Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow
Enterprise scalability,
contextual relevance, rich
people and business data search 6
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7. New Features Security Trimmed UI
Only show UI to users to which they have access
Breadcrumb
Site bread crumb provides user navigational context
Quick Launch and top navigation
Present on view pages
Customizable in the browser UI
View Improvements
Paging Backwards
Better Filter/Sort UI
Descriptive Menus
Simplified Web Part UI

8. New Features Recycle bin Document Level Permissions
End users can easily restore items accidentally deleted
Provides lifecycle control of items
Document Level Permissions
Survey improvements
Branching
Page breaks for longer surveys
Accessibility
Section 508 compliance
W3C compliance

9. New Features Mobility Wikis and Blogs Browse to sites on mobile phones
Scaled down sites suitable for small screens
Add, edit, and view items from the phone
Wikis and Blogs
New ways to collaborate
Great for pushing information out informally

10. Alerts

11. Integration
SharePoint sites become the place where team is archived, shared, organized
Send to SharePoint lists
ed discussions, meetings and documents are archived in a SharePoint discussion board
Send from SharePoint sites
Post a new announcement, optionally send it in to your fellow team members
View archived in Outlook
Your discussion board shows up as an folder in Outlook
SharePoint Lists can now receive
Discussion Boards, Calendars, Document Libraries, Announcements
Extensible support for custom ‘ handlers’
Better Discussion Boards
New more scalable topic-based architecture
Super rich-text field type
Unify web & discussions in one place
Create Distribution Lists from SharePoint
One-Step DL creation/archival during site creation
Unify SharePoint Group management and DL management 11
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12. Search Breaking through silos of information Find people and expertise
Easily connect to backend business systems
Key Technologies
Search improvements – relevancy, hit highlighting, query correction
Business Data Catalog
Customizable Search center
Rich people search

13. Enterprise Content Management
Document Management
Forms Automation
Microsoft took a holistic view of content management and incorporated the capabilities of document management, workflow, policy and compliance, and web content management.
Records Management
Web Content Management 13
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This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

14. Enterprise Content Management
Document Management -> Records Management, Web Content Management, e-forms/workflow
Compliance and multi-lingual scenarios
Rich and seamless Office integration
Key Technologies
Content Types
Integrated Workflow
Internet scale WCM
Records Management with policies and auditing
Integrated rights management

15. Document Management Scalable Document Libraries and Repositories
Extensible content types with rich metadata
Check-in/check-out with comprehensive versioning
Large document repositories and specialized library templates
Workflow and Approval
Out of the box, serial and parallel workflows (e.g.“Document review/approval” and “Signature collection”)
Participate & initiate workflows from within preferred application
Customizable workflows built with SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio 2005 on the Windows Workflow Foundation
Security and Tracking
Per item security and access control
Out-of-the-box support for labeling, barcodes, electronic signatures
Deep integration with Information Rights Management (IRM)

16. Web Content Management
Designed for Internet and Published Sites
OOB site templates with flexible site navigation controls
Web based site manager for managing site structure & content
Customizable workflow and support for multilingual sites
New Web and Word Authoring capabilities
New web author HTML editor enables in context editing
Image asset browser for rich web page development
Server–side Word to HTML conversion
New Content Deployment and Publishing tools
Automated content deployment console with “quick deploy” override
Page scheduling and page expiry notifications
Extensible, pluggable framework for document conversions
OOB Internet Presence site template
Contains several commonly used webs
Contains a set of page templates
Build out with Publishing Web template ‘building block’
Can be branded easily via (separate) .CSS
Flexible navigation
ASP.Net 2.0 navigation provider exposes site hierarchy
ASP.Net 2.0 navigation controls: flyout menu/breadcrumb/tabs
Users can insert arbitrary links
Separate site-wide and contextual navigation
3. Web Based Site manager
Explorer-like view of site structure and content
Administer settings
Perform move/copy
4. Search integration 16
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This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

17. Business Intelligence
The glue for “BI for the Masses”
Solves information underload by connecting clients and servers
Delivers in-context BI
KPIs, Reports, Dashboards
Key technologies
Excel Services
Report Center
KPIs and KPI Lists
Business Data Catalog
ODC Library

18. Server Investments SharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users
Excel Services
Share spreadsheets via zero-footprint browser experience
Live, interactive Excel 12 spreadsheets in SharePoint
Only publish what you want, control versions
Use Excel models in custom applications via programmatic access
Dashboards & Web components
Common filtering (“slicing”) across web parts
KPIs, Excel workbooks, and SQL Reporting Services reports
Easy to create and personalize dashboards
Report Center Websites
Out of the box website optimized for report access and management
Consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connection
Supports integration with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Data Connection Libraries & Business Data Catalog
Centralize storage of important data connections
Easily discover new sources of data
Update many spreadsheets, solutions with 1 central update
Maintain 1 version of the truth 18
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This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

19. Excel Services Overview
High quality web rending
Zero-footprint
Interactive
Browser
Publish Spreadsheets
View and Interact
Excel 2007
Export/Snapshot into Excel
Design and author
BI Abilities
Visualization
Programmatic Access
Excel 2007
Office 2007 SharePoint Servers
Open snapshots
Open full spreadsheet
Custom applications
Protect, Share & Reuse Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets stored in document libraries
Server calculation and rendering
External data retrieval and caching
Choose the parts you want to publish
Set & get spreadsheet values
Perform calculations
Retrieve full workbook file 19
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This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

20. Excel Services Table Formatting Pivot Tables KPIs from SQL
Graphs & Charts 20
© 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

21. Availability Office 2007 Beta 2 – Available today!
RTM for Volume Licensing accounts in November
GA in January with the Vista product
These are the latest dates as of Beta 2 availability.
Obviously, these are not set in stone!

22. Resources SharePoint Team Blog Windows WorkFlow Foundation
Windows WorkFlow Foundation
Clinic 3370: Getting Started with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 (Beta)
Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0
Clinic 5046: Inside Look at Building and Developing Solutions with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server

23. Web Casts
TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: Compliance and Records Management with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
MSDN Webcast: Extending the Web Content Management Features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: Upgrading and Migrating to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)