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INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT

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Agenda

Major Computing Challenges
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How SharePoint Addresses These Challenges
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SharePoint Is a Product AND a Platform
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User Empowerment
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Reduce IT Team Burden
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Web Interface
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Desktop Integration
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Search
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Collaboration
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Unified Development Platform
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Major Computing Challenges

Users rely on Information Technology (IT) team
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High IT Team burden
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Lack of Web Interface = local silos
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Locally-stored content = risk of lost content
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Inability to find content and people
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Difficult sharing knowledge internally and externally
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No unified development platform
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How SharePoint Addresses These Challenges

User Empowerment = Self Service
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Reduce IT Team burden
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Web interface = Global Access
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Desktop integration
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Search = Find Content and People
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Share Knowledge = Collaborate
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(Fairly) Unified Platform = Faster Development
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SharePoint Is a Product AND a Platform

What Is a Platform?
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“Foundation” set of technologies upon which to build solutions
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Allows common framework for components and applications to
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work together more easily

What Other Platforms Are There?
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Lots of examples: WebSphere, Lotus, Amazon Web Services,
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SalesForce.com

What Are The Implications Of Using a Platform?
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Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
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Creation of an “Ecosystem”
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Risk of lock-in
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The SharePoint 2007 Platform or “Stack”:

Client Modifications and
Development Add-on
Products
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Windows SharePoint Services

ASP.NET / WF / Web Services
SQL
Database IIS Web Server .NET Framework
Windows Server

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User Empowerment

Demos
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User Permissions
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Provisioning Sites
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Modifying Pages
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Managing Metadata
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Approving Content
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Applying Permissions
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Searching for content
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Workflows
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Reduce IT Team Burden

If users can do all of that, IT Team doesn’t have to!
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Configuration changes take less time
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Site and document recycle bin
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Easy backup and restore
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Ability to lock down permissions
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Logging and auditing capabilities
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Large choice of SharePoint enhancements
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Web Interface

Everything is available via a URL
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Different Environments are possible
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Intranet, Extranet, Internet
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Development, Integration, Testing, Staging, Production
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Browser-based = Simpler to “deploy” and maintain
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Raises other considerations
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Accessibility
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Standards compliance
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Security
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Desktop Integration

User experience
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Familiarity
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User Interface
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Responsiveness
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Offline Access
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Local copies of data (but backed up)
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Use of existing software and licenses
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SharePoint Integration Examples and Demos
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Office Suite (often via ActiveX) ex Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Communicator
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InfoPath
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Other applications that can use the MS Open Protocols
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Search

Everybody loves Search - $B investment effort
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Must be easy to use and automated
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How It Works
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Indexer agent and iFilters
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Metadata and Content database to store results
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Search server(s) returning query results
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OpenSearch protocol allows some interoperability
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New Federated Search capabilities
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Collaboration

Team members need to work together
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To share knowledge
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To find information
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To make changes to shared content
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To publish their work
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Today’s workforce is increasingly global
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Need information management tools like versioning, offline access,
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Security is a concern when making information available on the web
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Team members need to find each other’s work (even if they don’t know it exists)
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Latest collaboration trends must be available
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Wikis, Blogs, Discussion boards, Chat programs, lists
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There needs to be a historical record of the team’s work
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Unified Development Platform

Consistent set of technologies built to work together
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More stability and testing
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Increased support
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Lower training costs for users AND developers
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Faster solution development = 80% of functionality already exists
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Authentication and Authorization, Data storage, Look and feel,
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Navigation, Solution deployment and configuration

SharePoint as an Ecosystem = Incentives
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Microsoft has incentive to make its products talk to (or build upon)
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SharePoint

Vendors have incentive to build integration into their products
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Community has incentive to improve and share features
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Clients have incentive to strategically invest in SharePoint
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Summary

Modern computing has significant challenges
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SharePoint helps to address these
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It is both a Product and a Platform
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Standardizing on a platform provides many advantages (and
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risks)

SharePoint is a good strategic decision for many organizations
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