1. What is SharePoint and why you should care
Todd Klindt
Solanite Consulting

2. Who is this guy? WSS MVP since 2006
Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius
Personal Blog
Company web site
Got up too early this morning. 

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For Developers, By a lowly admin

4. What is SharePoint?
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.

5. What is SharePoint?
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

6. What does SharePoint 2007 have to offer?
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

7. WSS Basis for SharePoint’s collaboration Site Templates
Team Sites
Wikis
Meeting workspace
Document workspace
Document collaboration
Check in/check out
Versioning

8. WSS Email Integration IM client integration Mobile device support
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

9. MOSS 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

10. MOSS 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.

11. MOSS Social networking RSS can be consumed Site Directory
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

12. MOSS Information Rights Management support Records repository
SharePoint makes sure Office clients observe IRM
Records repository
Auditing, expiration of records
More site templates
Portals: Enterprise, Corporate, Application
And much, much more

13. SharePoint and DNN 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

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

15. Why SharePoint? .NET SharePoint Custom Development Out of the Box
Data Storage
Presentation
Security
Clustering
Data Access
Features
Data Storage
Presentation
Security
Clustering
Data Access
Features

16. What do SharePoint and Iowa have in common?
Farms!

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

18. Don’t choose Basic in Production

19. What magic can you make with SharePoint?
Web Parts
Web Services
Event Handlers
Fancy workflows
STSADM extensions
Custom controls
Content types
Always, Always, Always package your creations as Solutions and Features.

20. What can I do Monday Morning?
Buy my book
Put my blog in your Favorites
Download WSS, MOSS or MOSS VHD
Download the SDKs
Grab Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint
Grab some code at Codeplex

21. Q & A and Demonstrations

22. References & Links My Blog Download WSS v3 Download MOSS 2007
Download free MOSS virtual machine
SharePoint overview
WSS and MOSS comparison
DNN and SharePoint comparison

23. Even more Links for your clicking pleasure
WSS SDK
MOSS SDK
STSDEV Codeplex Project
40 Application Templates
Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint
Inside SharePoint Administration
Real World SharePoint 2007
Developer’s Guide to WSS v3 by Todd Bleeker