Transcript Title Name Title Department Microsoft Corporation

Integrating SharePoint
Portal Server and
Content Management
Server
Alisa Swann, CMS Technology Specialist
Kern Sutton, SPS Technology Specialist
Microsoft Corporation
Overview
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CMS/SPS Overview
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CMS/SPS Better Together
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Customer Scenarios
Integration Scenarios
Integration Overview
Demo
CMS/SPS Integration Pack
Best Practices
CMS Strengths
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Content Management Server 2001
enables companies to quickly and
efficiently build, deploy, and maintain
highly dynamic Internet, intranet, and
extranet Web sites
Comprehensive System for Managing
Web Content
Dynamic Content Delivery
Rapid Time-to-Market
Typical CMS Web Site
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Content experts publishing to the
organization (internal and external)
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Small number of producers
Large number of consumers
Branding, design and layout control
important
Highly structured Web site
Example Sites
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MSWeb
Marriott Corporation
SPS Strengths
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SharePoint Portal Server allows
companies to easily find, share and
publish information
Customizable portal
Industry leading search
Mainstream document management
Deep Office integration
Typical SPS Site
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Teams and business units sharing
information
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Producers and consumers are same people
Aggregated information
Information access more important than design
Document collaboration
Example Sites
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Microsoft Product Marketing Sites
L’Oreal Masternet Marketing portal
Better Together
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Why does my company need both?
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Different knowledge and publishing needs
Different producers and consumers of
information
End to end solution for document
collaboration & publishing
Scenarios
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Finance
Engineering/Marketing
Tier 1:
Workgroup Collaboration
Tier 2:
Approval Workflow
SharePoint
Portal Server
Intranet
Content
Management
Server
Web
Integration Overview
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The three points of integration:
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Manage CMS tasks through SPS Portal
Search CMS content from SPS
Enable publishing of SPS documents to
Web via CMS
Demo
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Customer Experience:
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Search
Business User Experience:
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Task Management using Web Parts
End-to-end document management and
publishing
Document/Content Publishing
Lifecycle
SPS Portal Site
Document
Published
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CMS Web Site
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Document
Updated
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Document
Published
Document added
to CMS Web page
CMS Web page approved
and published
Document Updated on
CMS Web page
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CMS Web page approved
and published
CMS/SPS Integration Pack
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Features:
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Integrated and automated publishing process
Multiphase two-tier workflow and approval
process
User-level security and access to information
Integrated content sources
Free-text search
Integration code, prescriptive architecture
guide, and sample site
Code downloadable from MSDN
Use immediately or extend
Integration Pack Goals
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Scalability: Supports clustered MSCMS
Servers mapped to multiple SPS
document stores
Security: Respects security standards
of both products
Reliability: Event Viewer logging
Performance and Scale
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Load Web part for Document Status <
than 5 seconds
Update document from SPS into CMS
page < 10 seconds
Number of document updates per
minute = 50 simultaneous
Number of SPS documents mapped to
CMS Pages = 5000
Search
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SPS crawls Web content, indexes
metatags, and creates full text index
SPS search of CMS content: add CMS
as a content source and set up site
path rules
SPS as search engine on CMS site:
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CMS Authentication is used to display
posting results
Web Parts
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Web Parts on SPS Server:
 WP_PagesAwaitingMyApproval
 WP_MyPagesinProduction
 Authentication:
 Windows
integrated authentication
 Manual authentication
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 Resource
Manager web part
Document Management
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Documents from SPS used by CMS
SPS notifies CMS when documents are
updated
“New” document available to CMS
SPS document management features
underlying intra/extra/internet sites
Customizing the Integration
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Web parts for more
functionality/reporting
Search with ifilter for auto-update of
SPS with new CMS custom properties
Integrated email notification
Integrated workflow
Resources
SPS Home Page
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/portalserver.asp
sp
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/downloads/tools/SDK.a
SPS Resource Kit
sp
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/techinfo/reskit/default.a
Web Part SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/downloads/WPDK.asp
CMS Homepage
http://www.microsoft.com/cmserver
CMS Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/cmserver
Thank you!
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