3. SharePoint Facts
The fastest-growing product in the history of
Microsoft
1.3 billion business for Microsoft.
Microsoft has sold more than 100 million licenses
worldwide
More than 500,000 software developers have
created at least one development project using
SharePoint in the past six months
There are 4,600 SharePoint Professional
Partners
Microsoft teams have trained more than 5,500
consultants on SharePoint 2010 by the time it
launched
-Source SharePointPro Connections
November 1, 2010
7. Data – Storage Requirements
Document storage
◦ Plan for 1.2 – 1.5 x file system size for
SQL Server
Index storage
◦ Index server: up to 40% of total size of all
content indexed for single server
8. Backup & Restore
SharePoint Backup/Restore
SQL backup and restore
Microsoft Data Protection Manager
◦ Restore farm, content db, individual
items
3rd party solutions
9. SharePoint Toolbox
SharePoint Designer 2007
◦ Next generation of Microsoft FrontPage
◦ Enables design and customization
◦ Create code-free workflows
◦ Master pages, page layouts
◦ Modify CSS files
◦ Edit .aspx pages and add script
◦ Write XSLT to customize data rendering
◦ FREE!
Visual Studio
12. SharePoint Foundation 2010
Is the new version of Microsoft Windows
SharePoint Services
What’s new?
◦ Ribbon
◦ Support for other browsers
◦ Co-authoring
◦ SharePoint Workspace – offline and synch
◦ Business Connectivity Services
◦ Redesigned Central Admin
◦ Health Monitoring
◦ Windows PowerShell
Editor's Notes
Windows SharePoint Services in the platform on which all SharePoint products and technologies are built.
Collaboration: Documents, tasks, blogs, wikis, email integration, “lite” project management, Office integration
Portals: Site directory, my sites, and social networking
Enterprise Search: people and business data search, web application site wide search
Enterprise Content Management: Integrated content management and web content management
Business Process and Forms: Web forms
BI: Server-base Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards
Improve team productivity with easy-to-use collaboration tools
Easily manage documents and ensure integrity , require checkout before editing, version control
Users will get up to speed quickly with the integration with Microsoft Office and IT intervention is minimal
Based on familiar tools: Web, Windows, Microsoft Office
Provides foundation for building Web-based applications
Content Databases
Site Collections cannot span Content DBs
To keep DBs manageable (75 - 100GB)
Then you need multiple Site Collections
Note - some features don’t work across Site Collections
Content Types
Shared Columns
Content by Query Web Part
Workflow
Information Management & Retention Policies
Document Link Fix Up
WSS v3 Search cannot span Sites
Quotas are at the Site Collection Level
For small / medium installations only
Restore site store – remove ability to delete sites for users
imbed old Intranet site in new site running on a different port
training - trained site owners first – CustomGuide and online training - lynda.com
Home page
Site actions - create components (lists, document libraries, picture libraries(, site settings, and edit page
home page - departments that only employees within that department can access are along the left (are also site collections
Show examples: Fire – Department Personnel, Policies, Chief’s Blog
Health – Community Seasonal Flu Vouchers (Show Views), MCH – Flu list (search for 3111 griesemer), Show calculate columns (Age), Export to Spreadsheet
Information Systems – Document Libraries – Test Doc: upload files or windows explorer, (check-in and out, versioning), Absence and Vacation Calendar
Calendar on home page (connect to outlook), Add alerts,
Help Desk Site – KPI reports
Forms - working using InfoPath with document libraries – ex Health Performance Review
More than one person can edit a Word document at the same time
Business Connectivity Services: Connect SharePoint-based solutions to sources of external data (SQL Server)
Health Monitoring: SharePoint Health Analyzer - auto checks for potential configuration, performance, and usage problems