Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group

Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

• Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies

• Transfer knowledge within the community

• Communicate best practices

• Introduce new products / solutions

User Group Goal / Objectives

• Quick Intro

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)

• Celebration / Free Stuff / Networking / Labs / Q&A

Agenda

• Inetium (www.inetium.com)

• Twin Cites based Microsoft consulting company

• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

• Practice Area focused on Information Worker Technologies

• New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com)

• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

• Training on many technologies

• Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

• I’m guessing you’ve heard of them

Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors

http://www.inetium.com/

http://www.newhorizonsmn.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/

• Website for user group

• SharePoint resource documents

• SharePoint resource websites links

• RSS Feeds

• Meeting Schedule

• Past User Group Presentations

• Watch for changes soon!

www.sharepointmn.com

www.sharepointmn.com

• Tech Ed

• June 11th-16th: Boston, MA

• http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx

• Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2006 (invitation only)

• May 15-18: Bellevue, WA

• A Conference for Architects & IT Professionals

• Technical Breakout sessions covering subjects such as architecture, deployment, migration, management and scalability with the latest version of Office platform.

Conference Reminder

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx

• Next Meeting

• June 14th 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

• Topics:

Possible Case Studies

More SharePoint 2007

• Ongoing Schedule

• 2nd Wednesday of every month

• 9:00 to 11:00 am

• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

Upcoming Schedule

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)

and introducing

“The Wheel”

• Business Intelligence

• Collaboration

• Search

• Business Forms / Processes

• Portals

• Content Management

SharePoint 2007 – Key Microsoft Investment Areas

• Portal Site Templates – Intranets, Internet sites and more

• Site Manager – Drag and drop tool for managing SharePoint navigation, look and feel and security

• Social Networking – Web parts that connecting individuals via shared SharePoint sites, distribution lists and others

• SharePoint Sites and Document Rollup Web Part – Lists all sites you are a member of and documents you have published.

• Mobile Device Support – Text only format displays on mobile phones

• More …

Portals

• Document Management

• Document Workflow – Approval, routing, others, and custom

• Integration with Office – Document information panel, document action bar

• Records Management

• Policy and Auditing – Retention schedules and policies

• Records Repository site template – Records vault

• Email records as records – Mail Management Policies, Managed Mail Folders

• Web Content Management

• Corporate Internet Site Template – Public facing

• Authoring and Approval – Publishing schedules, routing, approval

Content Management

• Consistent Search Experience – Same in WSS as in SharePoint

• Business Data Search – Allows indexing of data in a relational database

• Content Scopes – Allow creation of scopes based on rules, easily managed

• People Searching – Dedicated search tab for people, Results are based on social distance from you.

• Relevance – Revamped ranking engine developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research and MSN Internet Search

• More …

Search

• Browser Based Forms – Web capable InfoPath 2007 forms

• Form Import – Import forms from Word and Excel into InfoPath

• Compatibility Checker – Ensure forms will work with various users and tools (web, InfoPath client etc.)

• Administrating Forms -- Centralized Management / Deployment of browser based forms including managed code

• Workflow – Libraries and lists can be workflow enabled. Some workflows are provided out of the box

• More …

Business Process / Forms

• Business Data Catalog – Connects to data in LOB applications, can be viewed in lists, web parts, page and search results

• Business Data Lists and Web Parts – Display and analyze data from Business Data Catalog

• Dashboards – Site template for dashboard sites

• KPI Lists – Built in list type to display Key Performance Indicators

• Report Center Websites – Centralized location for reporting

• Excel Publishing – Publish Excel spreadsheets to SharePoint for viewing

• More …

Business Intelligence

• Document Collaboration – Enhanced workflow and document information bar

• Wiki and Blogs – Site templates for these

• Project Management Lite – Includes Gantt view of lists

• Email Integration – Email enabled sites

• Contacts / Calendars / Tasks – Two way synchronization

• Offline Lists / Docs – Ability to take content offline in Outlook

• More …

Collaboration

CollaborationCollaborationBusinessBusiness

IntelligenceIntelligence

PortalPortalBusinessBusiness

FormsForms

SearchSearchContentContentManagementManagement

PlatformPlatformServicesServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Workspaces, Mgmt,

Security, Storage,Security, Storage,

Topology, Site ModelTopology, Site Model




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CollaborationCollaboration

PortalPortal

Collaboration

Collaboration topics

More integration with Office tools. New site templates. Enhanced functionality

•New Site Templates: Document Libraries

•Integrated Workflow capabilities

•Document Information Panel

Document Collaboration

Document Collaboration – Information Bar

• InfoPath Form – Embedded into Word 2007

• Metadata – Pulls metadata properties from document library

Discussion Boards

• Email enabled

• RSS View

• Enhanced user experience

Outlook Integration – RSS Feeds

Outlook Integration – Documents Offline

Project Tasks List

Portal

PortalPortal Continues its role of bringing everything together and

providing a platform for content publication – while extending current functionality and adding new features.

•Can force all new sites to be listed

•Site Map displays sub sites

•Will check for broken links

•Updates site titles and descriptions

Site Directory

•List the sites you have access to

•List the documents you authored across a collection of sites

•Privacy controls

•Social Networking

•Colleagues and Memberships

MySites

My Sites

Mobile Support

• /m after site

• Mobile device support

• Text based interface




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• Windows SharePoint Services “V3”

• Core functionality

• Lists / Libraries

• Common Site Model

• Security Trimmed Views

• Administration

Lists / Libraries




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• No more “Areas” vs. Webs

• Navigation elements added to WSS

Security Trimmed Views




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• Users only see what the have access to

• Common Administration Interface

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SearchSearch




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SearchSearch

• Social Networking creates more relevant search results

• Support for searching LOB Applications (with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)

• Consistent search UI/results

• Enhanced search relevance

• People search

Consistent search UI/results




FormsForms






SearchSearch

People search




FormsForms






SearchSearch




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SearchSearch




FormsForms






ContentContentManagementManagement




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• Document Management

• Records Management

• Web Content Management

Document Management




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• Built-in Workflows

• Document Review

• Document Approval

• Document Management Site Templates

Records Management




FormsForms







• Policies & Auditing

Web Content Management




FormsForms







• Site Templates

• Enterprise Portal

• Corporate Internet Presence Site

• Page Check-in/Check-out

• Publishing Schedules and Workflow

• Dev Stage Production




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InfoPath 2007` SharePoint Designer Workflow

• Can be hosted by SharePoint!

• Better data connection support

• Full Outlook Form Support

• Can be used in Workflow enabled applications

InfoPath 2007

• FrontPage is being retired

• Some functionality will go into Expressions Web Designer

• Additional functionality will go into SharePoint Designer

• Can skin/theme SharePoint

• Supports Master Pages

• Ghosting is less of an issue

• Simple Workflow Designer

SharePoint Designer

• Built on Windows Workflow Engine

• Supported for pages, document libraries, lists, …

• Can be extended with custom code

Workflow

SharePoint Designer and Workflow

Demo




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BusinessBusinessIntelligenceIntelligence




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Data Connection Libraries Excel Services Business Data Catalog Dashboards

Data Connection Libraries

–Web Access

• Read only access to Excel

• No client required

• Graphing Support

– Web Service Access

• Programmatic Access

• Store Business Logic

Excel Services

– Expose Data to Sharepoint

• Custom Line of Business Data

• Database or Web Services

• Can be used as a column in lists

– Automatically provides lookup functions

• Full compliment of OOB Parts

Business Data Catalog (BDC)

Dashboards– KPI List

• Data Sources– Sharepoint List

– Excel Workbook

– SQL Server Analysis Services

– Manually Entered

– Combines All other Pieces

• One stop to view business health

Business Intelligence

Demo




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• 2007 Microsoft Office System Preview:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Evaluation Guide

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D/C/5DC09195-7D74-4A5D-AFED-62C000648A15/SharePointGuide.doc

• The Beta Experience (Office and Vista Beta Registration):

http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience

Go register – the public Beta will be soon

• Inetium Blogs

http://blogs.inetium.com

Resources





http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience

http://blogs.inetium.com/

Free Stuff!

Let the Celebration Begin!

• Celebrate

• Cake

• Meet the sponsors

• Learn

• SharePoint 2007 Lab Computers

• Windows Vista Lab machine (in the lobby area)

• Q&A / networking

Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group

Documents

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