Todd Klindt Solanite Consulting

     WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius Personal Blog www.toddklindt.com/blog Company web site www.solanite.com

E-mail [email protected]

 Got up too early this morning. 

  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

       Email Integration  Email alerts sent when content changes  Lists and libraries can receive email 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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• Data Storage • Presentation • Security • Clustering • Data Access • Features

SharePoint

• Data Storage • Presentation • Security • Clustering • Data Access • Features

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

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

      Buy my book Put my blog in your Favorites Download WSS , MOSS or MOSS VHD Download the SDKs Grab Visual Studio Extensions Grab some code at Codeplex for SharePoint

       My Blog Download WSS v3 Download MOSS 2007 Download free MOSS virtual machine SharePoint overview WSS and MOSS comparison DNN and SharePoint comparison

        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