Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

• Introductions / Overview

• SharePoint 101

• High level overview of SharePoint

• Differences between

• SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)

• Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)

• 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

Build 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

• Website for user group

• SharePoint resource documents

• SharePoint resource websites links

• RSS Feeds

• Meeting Schedule

• Past User Group Presentations

www.sharepointmn.com

www.sharepointmn.com

SharePoint 101

Individual

Teams

Connected CollaborationDivision

Enterprise

Islands of Productivity

Individual

Teams

Connected CollaborationDivision

Enterprise

Islands of Productivity

Team Assets are Enterprise AssetsSharePoint and

Office

SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Windows SharePoint Services 2003

Understanding the Architecture

Communitiesof Practice

Teams

SharePoint Portal Server

Windows SharePoint

Services&

Others

’Closed’ Membership

‘Open’ Membership

Corporate PortalCorporate PortalCentralized Services

• WSS is a subset of SPS

• SPS aims more at broad communication

• WSS aims more at team collaboration

SPS vs. WSS

• Administrator can configure structure of portal via interface in tool

• Easily design navigation

• Can be updated easily

SPS Configuration

• Similar in SPS and WSS

• Create

• Document Libraries

• Picture Libraries

• Lists

• Discussion Boards

• Surveys

• Web pages

• Easy to manage

Managing Content

• Similar in SPS and WSS

• Utilizes Web Parts

• Web parts are web modules that content data / functionality

• Drag and drop

• Can be custom developed to perform functionality that isn’t out of the box

Designing a Page / Site

• Store documents online

• Versioning

• Check in / out

• Alerts

• Metadata (additional columns)

Document Libraries

• Many basic lists out of the box

• Links

• Events

• Tasks

• Can create custom lists

• Spreadsheet view

• Alerts

• Multiple views

• Grouping

• Filtering

• Sorting

Lists

• SharePoint at Microsoft.com

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/

Resources

Q & A