Transcript Sharepoint @ Beijing 2008

Dan Holme
INTELLIEM
Maui, Hawaii
[email protected]
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Consultant & Trainer at Intelliem
 www.intelliem.com
 Fortune-caliber business, academic & government
 Microsoft Technologies Consultant, NBC Olympics
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MVP: Windows Server (Office SharePoint Server)
Contributing Editor, Windows IT Pro magazine
 Leader: www.OfficeSharePointPro.com
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Author: Microsoft Press
[email protected]
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SharePoint's role in the NBC Olympics broadcast
 Successes & Failures
 In the context of SharePoint "value points" & spin
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Lessons & take-aways
Discussion
 China, Beijing & the 2008 Summer Olympics
 SharePoint – collaboration & process improvement
 Windows (XP/Vista, 2003/2008, AD/Group Policy, etc.)
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> 10,000 athletes
> 10,000 journalists
> 70,000 volunteers
> 15,000 cast members
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> 3600 hours of content
 Multiple networks
 > 2200 hours of web content
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The most watched event in television history
 > 210 million unique TV viewers
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Millions of page hits & streams
 NBCOlympics.com
 Silverlight
 TV Tonic (Vista Media Center)
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> 3000 employees
 Mostly Beijing, but several hundred at 30 Rock, NY,
NJ, and LA
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International
Broadcast Center
 70k square feet
 2 studios
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Intensely short lifespan of a large enterprise
 July 2008 – August 2008
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Best-of-class team
High expectations
High demands
One-of-a-kind technologies
 Ready 48 hours before Opening Ceremonies
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$1 billion + on the line
Live
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Quick turn-around
Mission critical
Limited resources
Few standards
Rollback & disposal
Balancing act
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Planned
Quick-and-dirty
80/20 rule
 The Pareto Principle
 for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
 Solve 80% of the problems with 20% of the effort
 "Low hanging fruit"
 "Easy wins"
Business
Intelligence
Business
Forms
Collaboration
Platform
Services
Content
Management
Portal
Search
Business
Intelligence
Business
Forms
Collaboration
Platform
Services
Content
Management
Portal
Search
Collaboration
• Documents
• Tasks
• Calendars
• Project
Management
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Surveys
• Much more
Search
• WSS search
• MOSS search
• Relevance
• People
• Business
data
Process
Improvement
Content
Management
• Workflow
• Form libraries
• InfoPath
Services
• Document
management
• Records
management
• Web content
management
• Policy
• Translation
People &
Personalization
• Portal
template
• Site directory
• My Sites
• Social
networking
Platform Services
Workflow
Alerts & RSS
Customization
Topology
Auditing
Document
storage &
management
Business
Intelligence
• Excel Services
• Report Center
• BI web parts
• KPIs
• Dashboards
.NET Framework
Search
Admin
Deployment
Office
Integration
Authentication
Customization
Workflow
SQL
Storage
Collaboration
• Documents
• Tasks
• Calendars
• Project
Management
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Surveys
• Much more
Search
• WSS search
• MOSS search
• Relevance
• People
• Business
data
Process
Improvement
Content
Management
• Workflow
• Form libraries
• InfoPath
Services
• Document
management
• Records
management
• Web content
management
• Policy
• Translation
People &
Personalization
• Portal
template
• Site directory
• My Sites
• Social
networking
Platform Services
Workflow
Alerts & RSS
Customization
Topology
Auditing
Document
storage &
management
Business
Intelligence
• Excel Services
• Report Center
• BI web parts
• KPIs
• Dashboards
.NET Framework
Search
Admin
Deployment
Office
Integration
Authentication
Customization
Workflow
SQL
Storage
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Security
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 Pluggable authentication
 Rights / Roles
 Item-level security
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Repository (SQL)
Metadata
Versioning
Backup
Management
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Storage
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Administration
Delegation
Provisioning
Monitoring
Auditing
Usability
 Security-trimmed UI
 Office integration
Deployment
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Configuration management
Farm services
Features
Policies
Site Model
 Rendering
 Templates
 Navigation
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Extensibility
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Object model
SOAP
Fields / Forms
Events
Deployment
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ASP.NET 2.0
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Master pages to “skin”
Web parts
Personalization
Provider model for navigation, security, etc.
Database
Search
Windows Workflow Foundation embedded
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Online databases
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Versioning
Documents
Alerts
Security
Workflow
Mobile device access
Web front-end
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SharePoint  Anystream
 Manage very complex media metadata for each
'outlet' (NBCOlympics.com, TVTonic, Amazon,
mobile, etc.)
 Metadata sent as an XML file to Anystream
application, which manages streaming to outlets
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Solution
 InfoPath Forms Services
 Data validation & user interface
 Custom application page published item as XML
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Access client front-end
Excel client front-end
Collaboration
• Documents
• Tasks
• Calendars
• Project
Management
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Surveys
• Much more
Search
• WSS search
• MOSS search
• Relevance
• People
• Business
data
Process
Improvement
Content
Management
• Workflow
• Form libraries
• InfoPath
Services
• Document
management
• Records
management
• Web content
management
• Policy
• Translation
People &
Personalization
• Portal
template
• Site directory
• My Sites
• Social
networking
Platform Services
Workflow
Alerts & RSS
Customization
Topology
Auditing
Document
storage &
management
Business
Intelligence
• Excel Services
• Report Center
• BI web parts
• KPIs
• Dashboards
.NET Framework
Search
Admin
Deployment
Office
Integration
Authentication
Customization
Workflow
SQL
Storage
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Lists
 Tasks, calendars, custom
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Unstructured and interactive content
 Discussions, wikis, blogs, surveys
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Libraries
 Documents, pictures, forms
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Close integration with Office 2003 / 2007
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Libraries
 WebDAV as a "hook" for custom applications
 Show Formats
 WebDAV as a publication mechanism
 PDFs scanned by an MFP (to a file share) pushed to libraries
 WebDAV as a replication mechanism
 Syntergy, DocAve
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Lists
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Help Desk template – customized
 How To: Changing CONTENT TYPES used by template
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Tools
 "Who am I" (Page Viewer web part)
 Directory lookup (Page Viewer)
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Staff contacts (contacts list)
Staff schedule (custom list)
IT asset tracking
IT process requests
 Accounts, applications
Collaboration
• Documents
• Tasks
• Calendars
• Project
Management
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Surveys
• Much more
Search
• WSS search
• MOSS search
• Relevance
• People
• Business
data
Process
Improvement
Content
Management
• Workflow
• Form libraries
• InfoPath
Services
• Document
management
• Records
management
• Web content
management
• Policy
• Translation
People &
Personalization
• Portal
template
• Site directory
• My Sites
• Social
networking
Platform Services
Workflow
Alerts & RSS
Customization
Topology
Auditing
Document
storage &
management
Business
Intelligence
• Excel Services
• Report Center
• BI web parts
• KPIs
• Dashboards
.NET Framework
Search
Admin
Deployment
Office
Integration
Authentication
Customization
Workflow
SQL
Storage
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Workflow
 Out-of-box
 SharePoint Designer
 Visual Studio (WinWF)
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InfoPath client storing form / form data in library
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Transportation application
 Managed request & fulfillment of over 11,000
journeys
 SharePoint list (s)
 Access front end for transportation managers
 Rich form
 Relational database
 True and pseudo (non-normalized) relationships
between SharePoint lists
 Logic
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Where is there shared data
that different users need to do different things
with?
Data in SharePoint
 Web interface
 Item-level security
 Alerts & RSS & workflow
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Rich interface with Access
Rich analysis with Excel
Collaboration
• Documents
• Tasks
• Calendars
• Project
Management
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Surveys
• Much more
Search
• WSS search
• MOSS search
• Relevance
• People
• Business
data
Process
Improvement
Content
Management
• Workflow
• Form libraries
• InfoPath
Services
• Document
management
• Records
management
• Web content
management
• Policy
• Translation
People &
Personalization
• Portal
template
• Site directory
• My Sites
• Social
networking
Platform Services
Workflow
Alerts & RSS
Customization
Topology
Auditing
Document
storage &
management
Business
Intelligence
• Excel Services
• Report Center
• BI web parts
• KPIs
• Dashboards
.NET Framework
Search
Admin
Deployment
Office
Integration
Authentication
Customization
Workflow
SQL
Storage
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Search across
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200 file types
SharePoint sites
File shares
Web sites
Exchange Public Folders
Lotus Notes
LOB data (through the
BDC)
 People
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Ranking engine
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File type biasing
URL depth
Anchor links
Metadata extraction
Manageable
Secure
Good user experience
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Sometimes, the extra effort really pays off!
"Impossible Is Nothing" or "Just Do It"
Don't wait til you're too old
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Know the limits of your equipment
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Don't over develop … spiral develop
What SharePoint can do out-of-the-box
What SharePoint can do when extended
What SharePoint can't do (now)
Learn from your peers
Train hard
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SharePoint's role in the NBC Olympics broadcast
 Successes & Failures
 In the context of SharePoint "value points" & spin


Lessons & take-aways
Discussion
 China, Beijing & the 2008 Summer Olympics
 SharePoint – collaboration & process improvement
 Windows (XP/Vista, 2003/2008, AD/Group Policy, etc.)
Dan Holme
Intelliem
[email protected]