SharePoint 2007
By
Sam Nasr
August 29, 2006
www.ClevelandDotNet.info
Agenda
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Introduction
Overview
New Features
Demo
Q&A
Survey & Raffle
Overview
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Used for creating web site portals
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Collaboration tool
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Managing documents
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Based on .Net framework and ASP.Net
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Part of the MS Office suite but is purchased
separately.
SharePoint 2007 is 3rd major release
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System Requirements
CMS/SPS/WSS Roadmap
Content Management
Server 2002
SharePoint Portal
Server 2003
Windows SharePoint
Services v2
Microsoft Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
Windows SharePoint
Services “v3’
SharePoint Feature Areas
Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs,
wikis, e-mail integration,
project management “lite”,
Outlook integration,
offline docs/lists
Server-based Excel
spreadsheets and data
visualization, Report
Center, BI Web Parts,
KPIs/Dashboards
Business
Intelligence
Rich and Web forms
based front-ends,
LOB actions,
pluggable SSO
Business
Processes
Integrated document
management, records
management, and Web
content management with
policies and workflow
Collaboration
Platform
Services
Workspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,
Topology, Site Model
Content
Management
Portal
Enterprise Portal
template, Site
Directory, My Sites,
social networking,
privacy control
Search
Enterprise scalability,
contextual relevance, rich
people and business data search
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
New Features
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Recycle bin
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End users can easily restore items accidentally deleted
Provides lifecycle control of items
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Document Level Permissions
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Survey improvements
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Branching
Page breaks for longer surveys
Accessibility
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Section 508 compliance
W3C compliance
New Features
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Mobility
Browse to sites on mobile phones
 Scaled down sites suitable for small screens
 Add, edit, and view items from the phone
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Wikis and Blogs
New ways to collaborate
 Great for pushing information out
informally
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Alerts
E-mail Integration
 SharePoint sites become the place where team email is archived, shared,
organized
 Send Email to SharePoint lists
 Emailed discussions, meetings and documents are archived in a SharePoint
discussion board
 Send Email from SharePoint sites
 Post a new announcement, optionally send it in email to your fellow team
members
 View archived email in Outlook
 Your discussion board shows up as an email folder in Outlook
Search
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Breaking through silos of information
Find people and expertise
Easily connect to backend business systems
Key Technologies
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Search improvements – relevancy, hit
highlighting, query correction
Business Data Catalog
Customizable Search center
Rich people search
Enterprise Content Management
Document Management
Forms Automation
Records Management
Web Content Management
Enterprise Content Management
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Document Management -> Records Management,
Web Content Management, e-forms/workflow
Compliance and multi-lingual scenarios
Rich and seamless Office integration
Key Technologies
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Content Types
Integrated Workflow
Internet scale WCM
Records Management with policies and auditing
Integrated rights management
Document Management
 Scalable Document Libraries and Repositories
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Extensible content types with rich metadata
Check-in/check-out with comprehensive versioning
Large document repositories and specialized library templates
 Workflow and Approval
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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
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Per item security and access control
Out-of-the-box support for labeling, barcodes, electronic signatures
Deep integration with Information Rights Management (IRM)
Web Content Management
 Designed for Internet and Published Sites
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OOB site templates with flexible site navigation controls
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Web based site manager for managing site structure & content
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Customizable workflow and support for multilingual sites
 New Web and Word Authoring capabilities
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New web author HTML editor enables in context editing
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Image asset browser for rich web page development
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Server–side Word to HTML conversion
 New Content Deployment and Publishing tools
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Automated content deployment console with “quick deploy” override
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Page scheduling and page expiry notifications
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Extensible, pluggable framework for document conversions
Business Intelligence
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The glue for “BI for the Masses”
Solves information underload by connecting
clients and servers
Delivers in-context BI
KPIs, Reports, Dashboards
Key technologies
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Excel Services
Report Center
KPIs and KPI Lists
Business Data Catalog
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
Excel Services Overview
Browser
Publish
Spreadsheets
Excel 2007
Design and author
BI Abilities
Visualization
High quality web rending
Zero-footprint
Interactive
View and
Interact
Export/Snapshot into Excel
Programmatic Access
Office 2007
SharePoint
Servers
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
Custom
applications
Excel 2007
Open snapshots
Open full spreadsheet
Set & get spreadsheet values
Perform calculations
Retrieve full workbook file
Excel Services
Table Formatting
Pivot Tables
KPIs from SQL
Graphs & Charts
Availability
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Office 2007 Beta 2 – Available today!
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RTM for Volume Licensing accounts in
November
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GA in January with the Vista product
Resources
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SharePoint Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx
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Windows WorkFlow Foundation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/technologies/workflow/default.aspx
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Clinic 3370: Getting Started with Microsoft® Office
SharePoint® Server 2007 (Beta)
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=99057
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Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with Microsoft®
Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=61917
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Clinic 5046: Inside Look at Building and Developing
Solutions with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/elearning/offerdetail.aspx?offerpriceid=100740
Web Casts
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TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level
200)
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TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology
(Level 200)
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TechNet Webcast: Compliance and Records Management with Office SharePoint Server
2007 (Level 200)
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MSDN Webcast: Extending the Web Content Management Features of Office SharePoint
Server 2007 (Level 200)
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TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
(Level 200)
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TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of
2) (Level 200)
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TechNet Webcast: Upgrading and Migrating to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)